Quotes About Passion

The first kiss was at once passionate and chaste, a kiss that contained everything that was to mark their future together—his aching need for her, the slightest sense of reserve on her part, as if she would always hold back a piece of herself. Their last kiss contained their entire history.

The heart knows nothing, sees nothing, but it kicks up a ruckus, throws tantrums to get what it wants.

What makes a romance romantic, the beginning or the end?

It's at your most lunatic moments that I can resist you least.

There's more to love than two pelvises in a tussle.

I'd love to see him lay a single strip on her white back. It would be the most potent lesson either of them ever got.

My feelings for Liam couldn't be processed as a single thought. He'd become a symphony in my mind, composed of boundless crescendos that never reached a logical end.

I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature how words alone can get your heart doing that.

Are we marching off to battle?" Please let him think it was the maniacal pace he was setting that made her breathless. He stopped abruptly and managed a laugh. "Sorry, it's just—ah, the hell with it." And he hauled her into his arms, his mouth swooping down and claiming her.

Intenté nombrarla y era innombrable, volé para alcanzarla y me quemó las alas.

Cuando lo encuentre, se lo va a comer a besos, o acaso no es propio de los amantes devorarse mutuamente.

Me da vergüenza decirlo, esas cosas ya no se usan, pero desde ya confieso que lo mío con él fue totalmente así: agonía de corazón ardido que se desangra de amor.

Placeres y tormentos son iguales, como si el amor y su castigo fueran la misma cosa

I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.

Forgive me, giver, if I destroy the gift: it is so nearly what would please me I cannot but perfect it

There's always a fire.

That was his problem, you see, staying in love. When you fall in love as quickly as Gaspare did, when you can be swayed by the merest hint of feeling, the merest hitch in the blood, you can fall out of love just as fast - with places, with jobs, with women.

You use what moves you.

Frankie put her hand to her middle again. I remembered doing that, remembered when the feelings were so strong they turned your insides to a frothing stew" -Guardian

Nicholas Benteen stopped trying to pretend that he could ignore the determined creature who'd violated his privacy and his peace of mind, the same creature who'd unknowingly forced him to acknowledge the fact that he craved a woman with satiny–soft skin, a gentle, knowing touch, and the kind of passion that could restore his soul and bring his heart back to life again.

when you focus on what you do best, on what brings you the most satisfaction, there is plenty of space for everything. You can build a big career. You can build a big family. And you can meander along a Maryland creek on a weekday morning because the day is too wild and beautiful to stay inside.

if you were offered $400 million to never do the stuff of your work again, would you be bummed about it, despite your riches? If you would, then it's time to ask a follow-up question. If you did land a windfall, and could still do the stuff of your job, what parts of your job would you change? Given that you'd never have to work a day in your life, what would you do more of and what would you shove off your plate?

when you focus on what you do best, on what brings you the most satisfaction, there is plenty of space for everything.

Harsh as this sounds, if you're not in the right job—a job that is moving you toward where you want to be in life—then you're wasting almost all the time you're spending at work.