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Quotes About Craving

This is the trouble with all happiness -all of it is built on top of something men want.
~ Rick Riordan
I wanted to be the harbinger of ice cream, or falafel.
~ Rick Riordan
Cheeseburgers,' Percy said. 'Food of the gods.
~ Rick Riordan
The Amethyst deflated with the dawn. It needed the night to come alive, its open maw demanding to be fed with an endless parade of people.
~ Kate Atkinson
that old unfulfilled craving became an obsession I couldn't escape, a black hole of raw grief I kept falling deeper into. 'Where are my children?' I felt their absence and loss as if they existed somewhere I couldn't reach, as if they were stuck forever on the other side of a membrane and I could never access them.
~ Kate Christensen
thought. "You want some macaroni
~ Kate DiCamillo
I wanted to rest my eyes on green meadows. I wanted to sit on green grass under the shade of a green tree. I wanted to eat cool green salads. I longed for arugula tossed with olive oil and parmesan, for asparagus tips dripping with melted butter, for a salad of sweet and bitter green leaves. Most of all, I longed for fish and parsley soup.
~ Kate Forsyth
What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.
~ Katharine Hepburn
f you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.
~ Kathy Acker
Some folks like trains, some folks like ships, I like the way you move you hips All I want is a taste of your lips, boy, All I want is a taste of your lips.
~ Kathy Acker
How could I tell him that my loneliness was crushing? How it felt awful to be lonely but not know how to reach out to people and fill the time I always had too much of? It wasn't that I didn't enjoy being alone, because I did, and could spend hours on solitary endeavors like reading or going for long walks without ever wishing for human companionship...sometimes I craved the presence of someone, especially if I could be myself.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
What's next? If there are vampires in there, they probably drink artificial blood plasma substitute.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Now, after three days in the forest, that human part of me was sick of trees and streams and forest paths. It wanted a sofa and a TV and a shower. God, it really wanted a shower.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Dragons eat the things that they're curious about.
~ Kelly Link
Aliena shook her head. 'Not Sally. She's as lusty as anyone. She's just choosy.
~ Ken Follett
The craving for power is in itself a sign of inferior abilities and unfitness for responsibility.
~ Isabel Paterson
What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye
~ William Shakespeare
Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.
~ John Mayer
That's what you would do with untold power? Eat cake?
~ Desiree Williams, Illusionary
Desire for power is a kind of greed indulged by the unfulfilled
~ Michael Foley
Do not give your heart to that which does not satisfy your heart.
~ Abba Poemen
There's no prayer like desire.
~ Tom Waits
Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.
~ William S. Burroughs
You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.
~ William Saroyan