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  1. Shūsaku Endō _ Deep River

    At the core of her senseless actions, she vaguely perceived that she yearned for something. A something that would provide her with a sure sense of fulfillment. But she could not fathom what that something might be.
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  2. Peter Straub _ American Fantastic Tales:

    In violence there is often the quality of yearning - the yearning for completion. For closure. For that which is absent and would if present bring to fulfillment. For the body without which the wing is a useless frozen ornament. {"A Short Guide To The City"}
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  3. Gustave Flaubert _ Madame Bovary

    Yet she resigned herself: reverently she put away in the chest of drawers her beautiful dress and even her satin shoes, whose soles had been yellowed by the slippery wax of the dance floor. Her heart was like them: contact with wealth had laid something over it that would not be wiped away.
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  4. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

    How anxiously I yearned for those I had forsake
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  5. Virginia Woolf _ To the Lighthouse

    To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!
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  6. Stephanie Laurens _ The Edge of Desire

    My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all...All my heart has ever wanted is you."
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  7. Audrey Niffenegger _ The Time Traveler's Wife

    Why is love intensified by absence?
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  8. Nicholas Sparks _ Dear John

    And then I feel as if I'm witnessing a miracle, as ever so slowly she raises her face towards the moon. I watch her drink in the sight, sensing the flood of memories she's unleashed and wanting nothing more than to let her know I'm here. But instead I stay where I am and stare up at the moon as well. And for the briefest instant, it almost feels like we're together again.
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  9. Brené Brown _ Rising Strong

    Grief seems to create losses within us that reach beyond our awareness--we feel as if we're missing something that was invisible and unknown to us while we had it, but is now painfully gone...Longing is not conscious wanting; it's an involuntary yearning for wholeness, for understanding, for meaning, for the opportunity to regain or even simply touch what we've lost.
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  10. Emily Brontë _ Wuthering Heights

    I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and in it."
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  11. James Patterson _ The Angel Experiment

    Because what's worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?
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  12. William Shakespeare _ Romeo and Juliet

    Ay me! sad hours seem long."
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