yearning

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One of the novel’s characters insists that all of us share “only one important story: of youth, and loss, and yearning for redemption. . . . Just the details are different.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

In retrospect, taken collectively, much of McCarthy’s work as an actor, filmmaker and journalist hinges on the friendship motif — that primordial ache to belong, that yearning to be seen.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

That is also what she enjoys most in Boys' Love stories: "The tenderness, the yearning and the emotional connection between the two male leads."

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026

The lyrics of trot songs typically revolve around love and separation, or the yearning for a warm, familiar home.

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2026

This gray day in late January, among perfect strangers all looking across the river with yearning eyes to a glittering place for a glittering future, quietly I become older—fifteen.

From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads