“To die of yearning for something you will never experience”

“Something is missing: that's as close as I can come to naming the sensation, an awareness of missed or thwarted connections, or of a great hollowness left where something lovely and solid used to be. ...There is something fundamentally insatiable about being human, as though we come into the world with a kind of built-in tension between the experience of being hungry, which is a condition of striving and yearning, and the experience of being fed, which may offer temporary satisfaction but always gives way to new strivings, new yearnings.”

“In our family, forgiveness is something you pray for, something you yearn to receive—but so seldom do you give it to others.”

“My experience with Khonsu had taught me not be greedy about time. It was best to appreciate what you had and not yearn for more.”

“It's a strange grief… to die of nostalgia for something you you will never live.”

“I learned a long time ago that you have to experience something for yourself or you never really comprehend it.”