Quotes About Passion

Everything seemed slow, molasses slow, lovesick slow.

He could burn her up alive; he could do it in a minute flat, and that's not easy to forget.

Lightning, like love, is never ruled by logic.

There's a very thin line that separates readers and writers. You make a leap over that line when there's a book you want to read and you can't find it and you have to write it yourself.

Desire had a way of making a person oddly courageous.

They had likely been together twenty times, an entire world created in just days.

When you truly love someone and they love you in return, you ruin your lives together

I had never felt so alive as when reading.

To want someone so much could be a terrible thing, or it could be the best hope a man could have.

I wondered if all creatures were drawn to what was dangerous or if we merely wanted light at any cost and were willing to burn for our desires.

Love is trouble, and trouble is love.

Love is not always under our control

On evenings when the orange moon was rising in the sky, and some woman was crying in their kitchen, Sally and Gillian would lock pinkies and vow never to be ruled by their passions.

What she feels for him is so deep, she aches. She supposes this is what people refer to when they say the pangs of love, as if your innermost joy cannot help but cause you anguish as well.

That's still the best reading experience: falling in love with a book I meet by accident.

Every step I took hurt, I walked on daggers, on hot blue fire. Not holding him was like not breathing, not being quite alive. As

Desire had a way of making a person oddly courageous. In the aunts' opinion, it could sneak up on a grown woman and turn her from a sensible creature into something as foolish as a flea that keeps chasing after the same old dog.

What had she thought, that love was a toy, something easy and sweet, just to play with? Real love was dangerous, it got you from inside and held on tight, and if you didn't let go fast enough you might be willing to do anything for its sake.

and want can be a hundred times stronger than need, and a thousand times stronger than common sense. She

She feels her love inside her as if it were as tangible as blood and bones. They'll

Sometimes the most dangerous thing of all in matters of love was to be granted your heart's desire.

I read books as though I were eating apples, core and all, starved for those pages, hungry for every word that told me about things I didn't yet have, but still wanted terribly, wanted until it hurt.

The season I haunted Dreamland was the same summer I borrowed Maureen's copy of Jane Eyre. I wanted to read it for myself so that I might understand the depth of Mr. Morris's passion for this tale. Maureen said I could only have access to the volume when I was with her, for she was so protective of the book she kept it wrapped in brown paper to shield its cover.

We all burn for what is bad for us...burn him in return. Maybe then the bastard won't have such a hold over you.