It terrified me to consider: What if, as a grown-up, I craved another body beside me as still as this one? What then?
She had begun to read in the beginning as a protection from the frightening and unpleasant things. She continued because, apart from the story, literature brought with it a kind of gentility for which she craved.
What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.
The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.
Silence and darkness were all I craved. Well, I get a certain amount of both. They being one.
John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations.
Under the pretext of study we spent our hours in the happiness of love, and learning held out to us the secret opportunities that our passion craved. Our speech was more of love than of the books which lay open before us; our kisses far outnumbered our reasoned words.
How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!
Boy poison - a boy's kisses were like a poison, which infected you and after you were exposed you craved more, like an addict.
The Jews had a love-hate relationship with the Greek culture. They craved its civilization but resented its dominance. Josephus says they regarded Greeks as feckless, promiscuous, modernizing lightweights, yet many Jerusalemites were already living the fashionable lifestyle using Greek and Jewish names to show they could be both. Jewish conservatives disagreed; for them, the Greeks were simply idolaters.
…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.
I've always craved to belong to somewhere, but I never have and never will.
I had a real passion for performing. I craved the attention. I was a goofy kid just like I am a goofy adult. So as soon as I got the bug of getting laughs and getting on stage I just couldn't stop.
In later years, I craved foods that were almost always fattening.
I don't feel I was "born American," but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II and I craved something I could identify with.
He was the unloving father that I never had, but I still craved his acceptance.
