825 Quotes About Longing

  • Author Rachel Field
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    It's been so happy for us all to have you here, and I've tried not to think of - of the accounting that you and I, too, must give to the Duchesse. I cannot help feeling that you - that we shall pay dearly because you came with us and left her behind.""I always pay." He spoke evenly, but his brows drew together in a frown. "Sometimes I pay most for what I never had. I've been happy these few days, and at least that's something on my side of the ledger.

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  • Author John Updike
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    Rabbit wipes her chin and mouth with his handkerchief and, for weeks afterward, when all is lost, will take out this handkerchief and bury his nose in it, in its scarcely detectable smell of distant ocean.

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  • Author Amy Harmon
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    I pulled you from the waterAnd kept you in my bed.A lost, forsaken daughterOf a past that isn’t dead.Somehow love from sweet obsessionBranched and broke a heart of stone.Distrust became confession,Solemn vows of blood and bone.But in the wind, I hear the strain,Pilgrim soul that time has found.It moans to whisk you back again.Bid me follow, sweetly drown.Don’t go near the water, love.Stay away from strand or sea.You cannot walk on water, love.The lough will take you far from me.

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