Quotes About Attraction

And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.

But you would still settle for me if I were that last, wouldn't you? Women are like that. They have to have a male.

We tend to make up the people we fall in love with

She had yet to experience the effects of anybody's sex appeal, though she greatly admired Larry Bird—a fact that could not possibly have had anything to do with his looks.

la contradictoria mezcla de repugnancia y fascinación

La juventud muere cuando muere su voluntad de seducción.

Lo sé; una es como es, señorita, una es ignorante y de hombres entiende poco, pero lo poco que una sabe de ellos, en la cama y con ellos lo aprendió, sus hermosos dientes de tiburón me pertenecen, y a mí no podía engañarme aquella noche en la verbena: solamente un pelagatos es capaz de confundir la riqueza con una simple cara bonita y besar de aquel modo tan desesperado y urgente, como si quisiera sorber el mundo con la boca.

A girl he'd really liked had told him thanks, nut no thanks. She told him he was okay to bed, but not to wed.

You need to play a little hard to get. No man appreciates what comes too easily. It's the caveman thing. We like to hunt.

There are some things that are as ancient as time, and knowing when a man desires you is one of those.

Feature for feature, he wasn't exactly movie-star handsome. Yet he appealed to her in ways she wasn't used to.

He wasn't the best looking man she'd ever met. It was just

She shook her head, glued now to the sight. He felt exhilarated, seeing her there, her expression amused, absorbed. Oh, he wanted to charm her. He wanted to woo her, make her stay. He just wasn't sure how to do it. …Mick knew Win wasn't listening as he told her about the dog; he was barely listening to himself. He wanted to say, Don't go. Just stay. Stay and keep looking at me like that. He rattled on instead.

Physical compatibility is a question of skin first and foremost. If the contact of one skin on another isn't immediately pleasing nothing else can possibly matter, but if it is, all other things may follow.

After all, he meant well. Foreigners never seem to understand how little attraction an island of damp fogs, cut off from civilization, and a provincial little court has for us Parisians, who inhabit the most cultivated, powerful monarchy in the world.

I don't care how intelligent or attractive someone is, if he zaps your energy, he isn't for you. True chemistry is more than intellectual compatibility. Beyond surfaces, you must be intuitively at ease.

It is true that most of these men were closeted transgressors, while Colette played out her revolt in public. They were secretly attracted by her vital force. Their languor and formality were alien to her—but not their fetish worship of human beauty.

Lust is what makes you keep wanting to do it, even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you keep wanting to be with each other, even when you have no desire to do it.

Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway.

Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway.

The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.

We didn't speak, and a beautiful, sweet evil grew between us.

I think I want to kiss you again

We found so much to say, to share, to learn.... For it wasn't just the Marquis de Sade profile and the sporty thighs-and-calves that seduced me. It was even more, perhaps, or certainly just as much, the speed at which you used to read, and still do.