The glitter in the sky looks as if I could scoop it all up in my hands and let the stars swirl and touch one another but they are so distant so very far apart...

Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near…

When Summer lies upon the world, and in a noon of gold, Beneath the roof of sleeping leaves the dreams of trees unfold;When woodland halls are green and cool, and wind is in the West,...

But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I’ve always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as strong as it is in me, when the desire is for something so...

…that breath of relief that there is someone in the world, finally, who understands what hurts you.

I hated the gnawing longing that accompanied having everything.

The Decision…I wiped my hands on my pinaforenow sullied and stainednot crisp or pressedas it had been before…

There is a German word, Sehnsucht, which has no English equivalent; it means ‘the longing for something’. It has Romantic and mystical connotations; C.S. Lewis defined it as the ‘inconsolable longing’ in the human heart...

We long for things that harm us and run from the things that grow and heal us. We think good is bad and bad is good.

It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.

kevään sanansaattaja satakielikaipaus sen äänessä

The days passed in a dream. I pictured our reunion again and again, played it out in my mind over and over until I’d almost worn a groove in my thoughts, so deep that it...