Quotes About Passion

Cornelia sank in romance until it reached her chin. All but her sense was submerged.

She gripped his arm, pressing her claws into the naked flawless skin and the firm muscle beneath.

She felt, with intensity only fifteen could know. And it was a true and dreadful intensity, no less to be credited because one found her wracked in the throes of it.

Love was like a wild beast gnawing her heart and her vitals. She had been too proud and too outcast and too self-sufficient to know it before.

With one she loved she would be fire and flower and flood. But with any other, worthless, cold, and useless.

Cold enough to burn, she was yet his dutiful wife.

The young man in blue who had become his showpiece, a theater for Leopardo's passions, in an irresistible echoing move also set hand to hilt.

Like adamant she stared down at him, and some were certain they beheld her abhorence of him now, naked as swords in her gaze, as if she might kill him all over again.

Shaina got to her feet and clenched her hands. Her eyes, chestnut-colored, almost copper in the fire gloom, were wide and full of hunger, but her mouth was set.

He should probably make love to her.

You stole my heart, Regan,he told her. And I don't particularly want it back.

He'd wanted to take her dirty and take her sweet, take her any way he could get her and every way he could dream up

Don't you want to be neighbors? No. he said. I want to be lovers. Sleep-together lovers. Wake-up together lovers. One bed. Oh, God, she was going to fall in love. She could feel it happening.

She was in love. In love with the same man she'd always been in love with-God save her.

We've got to stop meeting like this." "No, we don't." He liked meeting like this, over her bare ass, a hot-off-the-presses copy of the Rocky Mountain News, and a steaming cup of coffee. It was so perfect, he planned on doing it every day for the rest of his life. He just hadn't told her yet.

I believe in love at first sight, and I believe that's what we've got going here. I was willing to die for you. I'm sure as hell not going to pass up a chance to live with you.

Hawkins's plan to be more careful was starting to include things like carefully brushing her off, and carefully take her home, where he could carefully kiss her mouth and carefully take her clothes off.

She'd never known a man whose initial move was to undress the woman he wanted.

Just write it!

This was the Great Romance. To love at any cost.

You'll have to learn to control your emotions. They're new, like achild's now, bursting with passion. Never let them fade, or part of you will die. But they cal also destroy you. Hold them dear, but don't let them take hold of you.

The Great Romance is for you. If only one of you would have followed me, the heavens would not have been able to contain my cries of joy.

In the space of so many scant hours, a new world had lifted the hem of her skirts before him. A world of seething pleasures and sweaty rage.

I now embrace the pleasures of this life with as much or more passion as I did before, but I do so without expecting those pleasures to provide any more than a foretaste of what is to come—a tremendously liberating knowledge.