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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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    Roger de Rabutin
    “Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.”
    ― Roger de Bussy-Rabutin
    tags: absence, long-distance-love, longing, love, separation
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    “Till then I wasn't alive, I longed for you like the love sick moon pulls the tide”
    ― Corinne Bailey Rae
    tags: longing, love
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    Sanober Khan
    “lean in to kiss me
    in all the places

    where the ache
    is
    the most special.”
    ― Sanober Khan
    tags: ache, body, deep, desires, heart, kiss, kissing, longing, passion, poetry, poetry-quotes, profound, romance, romantic, sensual, sensuality, soul, soulmates, tenderness, touch
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    Iain Pears
    “For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she had, but she knew an emptiness deep inside her, which began to ache.”
    ― Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio
    tags: aspirations, contentment, desires, dreams, longing
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “Living a life somewhere else in your mind is nothing more than being a prisoner where you are.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: anxiety, career, choices, decisions, dreams, dying, fear, feelings, goal-setting, goals, living, longing, love, misery, not-living, plans, relationship
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    Laini Taylor
    “..and when he let her go, it was as if she had been filled and didn't realize it until he pulled away and the absence rushed back in.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
    tags: akiva, desire, destiny, fate, karou, lonely, longing, love
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    D. Michael Hardy
    “Nights I stay up writing about you, wondering where you've gone, my heart doesn't understand your absence, I do my best to reassure, but its erratic beating tells me it doesn't believe my lies.”
    ― D. Michael Hardy, Pain and Longing: Poetry and Photography
    tags: heart, longing, longing-for-love, poetry, writing
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    Aina M. Rosdi
    “I synonymously felt my heart beat rapaciously, the heart which was once void of anything alive and well. Now the heart was rasping and knocking on my ribcage as if it was demanding to come out, take its root and grow.”
    ― Diyar Harraz, Like The Starlings
    tags: aliveness, growth, hearts, laila, longing-for-love
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