She was at his mercy, the mercy of the cold night, and the mercy of her own inner longing.

It was simply an illusion born out of his own inner longing.

With a touch imperceptible as dewfall, she touched her brother's mind and sharpened his inner longing with restlessness.

I told myself that it was only a fulfillment of some inner longing but that didn't stop my dreaming.

Switching the engine off, he leaned over and kissed her again, and this time she was waiting for him, kissing him back with an inner longing.

Other people cannot fill the inner longing for recognition that is sought.

Stories by a spellbinding urban fabulist, concerning divided souls, people whose protective coloration belies their inner longings, in two great cities.

But some deep inner longing has been stirred in both Jean-Marie and Nicole.

At age seven, inspired by a deep inner longing, he ran away from home in search of the meaning of death.

These legends intensified an inner longing he later called "joy".