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Quotes About Intensity

There were times in life when nothing short of spitting fire would do.
~ Ilona Andrews
Kissing me won't make me more agreeable," she whispered. "I'm not trying to make you more agreeable." His voice was rough and low. "I just can't help myself.
~ Ilona Andrews
He looked her over very slowly. "If I chose to molest you, it wouldn't be an attempt. And you would be most enthusiastic about it.
~ Ilona Andrews
If I didn't know him and I was driving by, I would've stopped to get a second look, trying to figure out who that scary hot bastard was.
~ Ilona Andrews
You're a fucking mess," Curran's voice said.
~ Ilona Andrews
I'm going to find whoever put this creature through that torture, and I'm going to kill them slowly. Piece by piece.
~ Ilona Andrews
The Marshal scooped up the dead vampire's hammer and brained the last remaining raider with it. Maud remembered to breathe. The Marshal sprinted to the shuttle. Sparring with him would be amazing. She could go all out without holding back.
~ Ilona Andrews
Oh no, you don't. Over my dead body. Better yet, over his.
~ Ilona Andrews
What are your intentions toward me?" He leaned forward. Some of the hardness drained from his eyes. They turned deep and very green. "I intend to have you." "In what sense of the word?" A narrow smile tugged on the corners of his mouth. He looked utterly focused, like a cat about to pounce. "In every sense." Rose choked on her coffee.
~ Ilona Andrews
He kissed me back. There was no magic this time. No phantom fire, no velvet pressure. Just a man, who tasted like the glory of heaven and the sin of hell rolled into one.
~ Ilona Andrews
He was terrifying, and I wanted to run my hands down that chest and feel the hard ridges of his abs. I was some special kind of idiot.
~ Ilona Andrews
The admiration vibrated in his voice and suddenly she was intensely jealous of herself.
~ Ilona Andrews
Landon spun the wheel. The Land Rover nearly careened, turning off the road. Landon parked and bolted out of the car, slapping the driver's door closed behind him.
~ Ilona Andrews
He's getting grimmer and grimmer," Barabas said. "Derek?" "Yes. Before long he will start emitting his own dark cloud." "Maybe we can all sneak around under the cover of his darkness.
~ Ilona Andrews
Two things fill my mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the reflection dwells on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
~ Immanuel Kant
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.
~ Immanuel Kant
Mothers and women in love: both ferocious females.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
Extraña locura! El amor a los veinte años se parece a un acceso de fiebre, a un delirio. Cuando termina, cuesta recordar otros… El ardor de la sangre, que se apaga pronto… Ante aquella llamarada de sueños y deseos, qué viejo, qué frío, qué sensato me sentía…
~ Irene Nemirovsky
Such madness. When you're 20, love is like a fever. It makes you almost delirious. When it's over, you can hardly remember how it happened. Fire in the blood, how quickly it burns out.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
There was something factitious and brittle and thereby utterly feminine about her charm which made me want to crush her, even to crunch her. She had a slight cast in one eye which gives her gaze a strange concentrated intensity. Her eyes sparkle, almost as if they were actually emitting sparks. She is electric. And she could run faster in very high-heeled shoes than any girl I ever met.
~ Iris Murdoch
You imagine that to live in a state of extremity is necessarily to discover the truth about yourself. What you discover then is violence and emptiness. And of this you make a virtue.
~ Iris Murdoch
And this great love makes you both ruthless .
~ Iris Murdoch
He suffers terribly all the time. He lives in fire.
~ Iris Murdoch
She shivered in the sunlight as if it were the ray of a malignant star.
~ Iris Murdoch