4 Orson Scott Card Quotes on Longing

Orson Scott Card quotes on longing

376. Show him who I am, help him to see that even though I am no beauty, I'm still a woman, I still long to love, to be loved, to make a family with a man who is bound into my heart

752. They were gnawed within by the grief of knowing that this greatest gift of all gifts was forever out of their reach.

896. Savanna had said, 'Come back soon. Come back while you're still young enough to want me. For I'm going to be young forever' I wasn't young anymore, not by any definition of the word. But I wanted her. Perhaps I only wanted the innocence of the children we had been, making love beside the river, oblivious to the pain that could and surely would come to them. Still, I wanted her more than I wanted anyone else in the world, not because my passion was so overwhelming, but because all the other things I wanted were either painfully accomplished or so hopeless that I had given up on them. Only she was left

926. The one thing I can't have in all this world is [her]. But she's what I've wanted, all day, all month, all these years