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yearn
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The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
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- A passing image, perhaps a memory, but one that filled him simultaneously with sadness and with yearning.†
p. 12.6 *yearning = strongly desiring; or a strong desire
- Yearning.†
p. 23.5
- Later, when she remembered this moment, one woman with a pair of scissors and the other sitting in a cotton slip amid the ruins of her hair, she would think of it in black and white and the image would fill her with a wild emptiness and yearning.†
p. 29.8
- What yearning had driven her to this radical decision, this place of no return?†
p. 97.5
- She had given up those pleasures willingly; she had embraced this change out of some deep unacknowledged yearning.†
p. 103.2
- This was what he yearned to capture on film: these rare moments where the world seemed unified, coherent, everything contained in a single fleeting image.†
p. 157.4yearned = strongly desired
- Warmth radiated from his fingers; she was filled with such yearning that she ached.†
p. 183.4yearning = strongly desiring; or a strong desire
- Sometimes his father invited Paul, who looked forward to these days with a yearning that embarrassed him.†
p. 214.1
- She was unnerved by the images he'd given her—Paul, a teenager, playing the guitar and dreaming of Juilliard, Norah with her own business, and David, fixed in her mind all these years, as clearly as a photograph in a book, bent over this piece of paper, filled with regret and yearning.†
p. 231.1
- In the narrow room above the store, books spread out on his bed, he'd been so homesick he couldn't concentrate, and yet when he went back to the mountains, his yearning did not diminish.†
p. 261.9
- Loss lingered in the play of lights and shadows; these were photos full of yearning.†
p. 364.4
- She yearned to be there, to be in that place where her life had made sense, but she didn't pick up the phone or call him back.†
p. 372.6yearned = strongly desired
Definitions:
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(1)
(yearn) have a strong desire -- often for something difficult or impossible to have
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)