All 5 Uses of
yearn
in
The Lovely Bones
- I had never even let myself yearn for Buckley, afraid he might see my image in a mirror or a bottle cap.†
Chpt 7 *yearn = strongly desire
- If, as she stretched out on the rug in the one warm spot that the house seemed to hold in the winter, she could not help but turn over and over again her husband's absences in her mind, she would let them consume her until her body pled for her to let him go and to focus—as she leaned forward, her arms outstretched toward her toes now—and move, to shut her brain off and forget everything but the slight and pleasant yearning of muscles stretching and her own body bending.†
Chpt 16yearning = strongly desiring; or a strong desire
- It was lust and rage yearning upward.†
Chpt 22
- —I was done yearning for them, needing them to yearn for me.†
Chpt 23
- —I was done yearning for them, needing them to yearn for me.†
Chpt 23yearn = strongly desire
Definition:
have a strong desire -- often for something difficult or impossible to have