{"quotes":[{"text":"... And you start telling a story about accidentally stealing shoes from an outlet and we've been on the steps for almost twenty minutes and you're so nervous and excited that you keep talking about shoes as if you have to keep talking about shoes or you might jump me right here, on the steps. I chose this spot because my whole fucking life I've walked by these steps and seen couples that make me feel alone, rejected. And now there are loners passing by you and me, jealous, and you're still talking and fuck, it's hard to listen when I can smell your body wash.","author":"Caroline Kepnes","tags":["longing","yearning"],"id":22,"author_id":"Caroline+Kepnes"},{"text":"Each night I lie and dream about the oneWho kissed me and awakened my desireI spent a single hour with him aloneAnd since that hour, my days are layed with fire.","author":"L.J. Smith","tags":["cassie-blake","lust","obsession","yearning"],"id":1228,"author_id":"L.J.+Smith"},{"text":"If only you would realize some day, how much have you hurt me,If only your heart ever, craves for me or my presence…If only you feel that love again someday for me,If only you are affected someday by my absence…Only you can end all my suffering and this unbearable pain,If only you would know what you could never procure…If only you go through the memories of past once again,Since the day you left my heart has bled, no one has its cure…If only you would bring that love, those showers and that rain…If only you would come back and see what damage you create,I’ve been waiting for your return since forever more…If only you would see the woman that you have made,You said we cannot sail through, how were you so sure?If only you can feel the old things that can never fade,You may have moved on, but a piece of my heart is still with you…I know how I’ve come so far alone; I know how I’m able to wade,People say that I’m insane and you won’t ever come back again…Maybe you would have never made your separate way,Maybe you would have stayed with me and proved everyone wrong…If only you would know the pain of dying every day,If only you would feel the burden of smiling and being strong….","author":"Mehek Bassi","tags":["breakup","breakups","destiny","expectations","fate","forget","forgive","hurt","kill","life","love","love-hurts","love-story","lovers","memory","pain","philosophy","poem","poetry","remember","satisfaction","wanting","yearning"],"id":1985,"author_id":"Mehek+Bassi"},{"text":"Freedom is essential to the pursuit of happiness. Freedom is essential to artistic evolution and expression. Freedom is essential to the expansion of the human mind. Freedom is essential to the development and application of basic humanitarianism.Freedom is essential to the creation of an individual's will, motivations, preferences, and unique talents. In essence, freedom is essential to the success and progress of humanity.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["autonomy","birth","freedom","independence","independence-day","richelle","richelle-e-goodrich","richelle-goodrich","yearning"],"id":3495,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"Name me no names for my disease,With uninforming breath;I tell you I am none of these,But homesick unto death —Homesick for hills that I had known,For brooks that I had crossed,...Before I met this flesh and boneAnd followed and was lost… .And though they break my heart at last,Yet name no name of ills.Say only, 'Here is where he passed,Seeking again those hills.","author":"Witter Bynner","tags":["longing","melancholy","regret","yearning"],"id":8017,"author_id":"Witter+Bynner"},{"text":"Be not wishing and pining but thankfully content.  For it is a short bridge between wanting and regret.'- from 'Dimpellumpzki.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["content","contentment","gratefulness","longing","pine","pining","regret","richelle","richelle-goodrich","thankfulness","thanks","want","wanting","wish","wishing","yearn","yearning"],"id":11671,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"You kissed me once and now you feel as if you’ve got some special kind of licence to do it whenever you want?","author":"Simona Panova","tags":["allow","boy","desire","desires","fancy","flirt","forbid","forbidden","girl","goth","gothic","kiss","kissing","let","licence","longing","love","loved","loving","once","permission","relationship","relationships","romance","special","suspense","twice","want","wish","yearn","yearning","young-adult","young-adult-gothic-romance","young-adult-romance"],"id":24769,"author_id":"Simona+Panova"},{"text":"I am infinitely yearningbrimmingand overflowingin wordsi discoverit’s another wayfor meto be in tears.","author":"Sanober Khan","tags":["crying","indian-","infinite","overflow","passion","poetry","poetry","poets","tears","words","writers","writing","yearning"],"id":31743,"author_id":"Sanober+Khan"},{"text":"Success is transient. Failure makes us diligent. But yearning to succeed is constant.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["debasish","debasish-mridha","failure","mridha","philosophy","succeed","success","transient","yearning","yearning-to-succeed"],"id":36873,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"text":". . .In your light, had I learned to love, here\t\tin your beauty, could I speakknowing of this space close withinas the breath held inside a garden rose, there—\tthere is no time.","author":"John Daniel Thieme","tags":["beauty","breath","intimacy","light","love","roses","time","timelessness","yearning"],"id":40350,"author_id":"John+Daniel+Thieme"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":107,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}