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William A. Henry III

"A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing."

William A. Henry III, American Journalist
Longing, Sexuality
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"A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing."

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Asa Don Brown

"At the end of this day there remains what remained yesterday and what will remain tomorrow: the insatiable, unquantifiable longing to be both the same and other."

Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese Author
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Asa Don Brown

"The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world's existence. All these half-tones of the soul's consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are."

Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese Author
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Asa Don Brown

"I wished it was raining,' he said.'I don't need the rain,' I said. 'I need you."

Benjamin Alire Saenz, American Poet
Longing, Love, Needs, Emotion
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Asa Don Brown

"What made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it against the law for you to feel that way about someone without them having to feel it for you right back."

Ann Brashares, American Author
Longing, Love, Desire, Pain
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Asa Don Brown

"He failed to see that it contained at once all of Djuna's wishes which had been denied, and these wishes had flown from all directions to meet at this intersection and to plead once more for understanding."

Anais Nin, American Author
Longing, Wish, Denial, Understanding
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Asa Don Brown

"Why does anything cling to something? Maybe they love wherever they're going so much that it's worth it. Maybe they'll keep coming back, until there's only one star left. Maybe that one star will make the trip forever, out of the hope that someday-if it keeps coming back often enough-another star will find it again."

Sarah J. Maas, American Novelist
Longing, Love, Hope, Stars, Journey
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Asa Don Brown

"I knew he wouldn't come, but I howled anyway, and when I did, the other wolves would pass images of him to me of what he looked like: lithe, gray, yellow-eyed. I would pass back images of my own, of a wolf on the edge of the woods, silent and cautious, watching me. The images, clear as the slender-leaved trees in front of me, made finding him seem urgent, but I didn't know how to begin to look."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author
Longing, Memory, Urgency, Nature, Desire
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Asa Don Brown

"His eyes missed her as much as the rest of him."

Rainbow Rowell, American Author
Longing, Eye, Missed, Rest, Feelings
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Asa Don Brown

"Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!"

Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese Author
Longing, Regret, Identity, Past
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"There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer
Longing, Life, Existence, Identity

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