longing

Though we dream and hardly know it, longing, like an angel, fosters us, smooths our hair, and brings us strawberries. Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping: A Novel

Henri Cartier-Bresson - Romania, 1975 via UE

another condition

"So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, and intolerable waiting, a longing for another place and time, another condition." Theodore Roethke.

Teen City: The Adventure of Adolescence at The Musee de L'Elysee, via artdaily.org. Photo: Hanne van der Woude, "Katinka and Annabel"

sense of absence

"I’m not adopted. But that longing and that sense of absence . . . are perhaps other ways of expressing the actualities of my family." Andrea Barett. Marked up manuscript pages at The Paris Review (Yes, there's one from Haruki Murakami).