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Quotes About Passion

I am for hockey. I find I should like to hit something with a stick. -Gemma Doyle Trilogy
~ Libba Bray
sometimes a little crazy is all you need
~ Libba Bray
A guy's gotta live, you know, gotta make his way and find his meaning in life and love, and to do that he needs coffee, he needs coffee and coffee and coffee.
~ Libba Bray
He took her face into his hands and his kiss blotted out the sky
~ Libba Bray
He loved her very much. She inspired his work. He used to say, 'There is no meaning but what we assign to life, and she is my meaning.
~ Libba Bray
Miss McCleethy stands to address us. Thank you, Miss Bradshaw. That was a nice start to our day. A nice start? It was lovely. Perfect, in fact. Miss McCleethy has no passion at all, I decide. I shall be forced to give her two bad conduct marks in my invisible ledger.
~ Libba Bray
Well, I mean, all the best people have a little beast in them.
~ Libba Bray
And afterward, in the small cabin, they'd do this, this tangle of bodies, this blurring of the edges that kept people distant and lonely.
~ Libba Bray
And falling for Sam Lloyd was the don't-you-dare cherry on top of a worst-idea sundae.
~ Libba Bray
Isaiah thought of Memphis in love with Theta and Theta in love with Memphis, and he understood for the first time just how dangerous their love was for them. Even though they were supposed to be free, they weren't.
~ Libba Bray
Corría al galope hacia la vida.
~ Libba Bray
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, / The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere / The ceremony of innocence is drowned; / The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity,'" Memphis quoted. "W. B. Yeats. 'The Second Coming.
~ Libba Bray
Write like it matters, and it will.
~ Libba Bray, NY 2010
There's only one way I can explain it: She had bequeathed me her love of words. She was a librarian.
~ Lilian Jackson Braun
It was in that tree that I learned to read, filled with the passions that can only come to the bookish, grasping, very young, bewildered by almost all of what I read, sweating in the attempt to understand a world of adults I fled from in real life but desperately wanted to join in books. (I did not connect the grown men and women in literature with the grown men and women I saw around me. They were, to me, another species.)
~ Lillian Hellman
There are also other factors that make a person attractive to us, which have to do with what we sense we can experience with them, and how think they can enhance the quality of our life. We may feel that they have the capacity to bring more healing, passion, peace, exuberance, ease, fulfillment, or joy into our life.
~ Linda Bloom
God gave you the gift of passion so that you and your husband can experience intimate oneness. He also gave it to you so you could share exquisite pleasure.
~ Linda Dillow
You see? he asked, his voice softening to a velvety punas he felt her tremble. His warm breath stirred her hair. All I have to do is touch you. It's the same for me, Faith. I don't like this worth a damn, but by God, I want you, and we're going to do something about it.
~ Linda Howard
She felt both relaxed and protected with him, at least from outside forces. Nothing, it seemed, could protect her from him, and tonight she wasn't even certain she wanted to be. Claimed, and mated. She was his, but was he hers? And if he was, what in hell did they do about it? "I don't even know what you want," she said fretfully, beginning to lose herself in rising sensation. "This," he muttered in a dark, rough tone. "You. Everything.
~ Linda Howard
I'm really not hungry," she repeated, lifting the coffee cup and inhaling the fragrant steam before sipping. "Just a few bites," he cajoled, taking his own place beside her. "You need to keep up your strength for tonight." She gave him a heated, slumberous look, remembering her fantasy. "Why? Are you planning something special?" "I suppose I am," he said consideringly. "It's special every time we make love.
~ Linda Howard
He needed a woman. Bad.
~ Linda Howard
By morning, she was raw and sore, and knew walking would be an effort. By morning, she could barely remember what it had been like to not know his body, not to have felt him inside her and held him in her arms and absorbed the power of his thrusts as he came. By morning, she was his.
~ Linda Howard
But never had he felt more enthralled than he was right now, sitting beside Evie on a weathered old dock, with a blazing afternoon sun, almost brutal in its clarity, bathing everything in pure light. Sweat trickled down his back and chest from the steamy heat, and his entire body pulsed with life. Even his fingertips throbbed. It took all of his formidable self-control to prevent himself from pushing her down on the dock and spreading her legs for his entry.
~ Linda Howard
If your hero is a firefighter, your heroine better be an arsonist.
~ Linda Howard