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"Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?"
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"No misery compares to staring at a clear night's sky with arms stretched toward a coveted star, wishing on what is forever out of reach."
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"For every man there is a deep longing."
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"I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing."
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"He reached out for her hand and she grabbed onto his. "Eena, when you're ready to talk about it, I'll be here. That's what best friends are for. She let the tears fall. He'd never know they were for him. He'd think they were because of Derian. They held hands silently throughout the night, Ian unaware that this was by far her most tortured nightmare ever. Paradise so close, and yet completely unattainable."
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"Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable."
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"But those two circles, above all the point at which they touched, are the very thing I am mourning for, homesick for, famished for. You tell me 'she goes on.' But my heart and body are crying out, come back, come back. Be a circle, touching my circle on the plane of Nature. But I know this is impossible. I know that the thing I want is exactly the thing I can never get."
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"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."
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"I think about you every second of every day and I don't know how to get over you, she says."Don't, I beg her. "Please don't get over me."
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"How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to lands beyond the world you know. They will call you, as you grow. There can never be a time when you forget them, when you are not, in your heart, questing after something you cannot have, something you cannot even properly imagine, the lack of which will spoil your sleep and your day and your life, until you close your eyes for the final time..."
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"Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?"
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"I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures."
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"My talents fall within definite limitations. I am not as versatile an actress as some think."
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"There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them."
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"I wish I were supernaturally strong so I could put right everything that is wrong."
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"If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is."
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"I want to be alone."
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"I'm tired and nervous and I'm in America. Here you don't know that you live."
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"I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference."
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