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Quotes About Attraction

Want ever so gently. Invite your desires to you like you call a cat. Any aggressive move toward your goals will chase them away.
~ Bryant McGill
He saw her eyes bright as stars; he saw her lips, and was not satisfied with only seeing them.
~ Bulfinch, Thomas
Son, if a maiden love thee, thou shalt appear handsome in her sight; she shall praise thine eyes, and the corners of thy mouth, yea, she shall admire thy hands. Though thou wert even as the orangutan yet shall she paint thee with fancies.
~ burgess gelett ii
Tell me, does the magnetic virtue of the needles of the compasses of all those ships attract them thither?
~ Herman Melville
And those same things that would have repelled most others, they were the very magnets that thus drew me. I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
~ Herman Melville
De tierra adentro todos, llegan de avenidas y callejas, de calles y paseos; del Norte, Este, Sur y Oeste. Pero ahí se unen todos. Decidme ¿les atrae hacia aquí el poder magnético de las agujas de las brújulas de todos estos barcos?
~ Herman Melville
Do you have a girl? No. Don't you get, well, hungry now and then? Damned hungry. What do you do? Hunger, mostly. Maas uttered a short barking laugh. My dear lad. Big and strong, and if I may say so, winning as you are? I'd rather be hungry than involved. My trouble is I don't know how to be casual. Even if it's a waitress, I have to make a goddess of her in my own mind, I don't know why.
~ Herman Wouk
She is very plain. What does Henry see in her?' "He thinks she's stupid. He finds it restful.
~ Hilary Mantel
for iron of itself draws a man thereto.
~ Homer
Iron has powers to draw a man to ruin
~ Homer
With that she loosed from her breasts the breastband, pierced and alluring, with every kind of enchantment woven through it . . . There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover's whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.
~ Homer
All energy flows according to the whims of the great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
It was as if some magnetic repulsion, which before had kept our two carriages from meeting and passing, had now been reversed, and so sucked me inexorably forward, drawing me towards something my heart made clear I feared - or should fear - utterly, in the way some people are fatally attracted towards an abyss while standing on its very edge.
~ Iain Banks
Because every desire has its proper object. It means people spend their lives wanting things they shouldn't. The world confuses into taking their love and aiming it where it doesn't belong.
~ Ian Caldwell
Bond had taken her to the station and had kissed her once hard on the lips and had gone away. It hadn't been love, but a quotation had come into Bond's mind as his cab moved out of Pennsylvania station: 'Some love is fire, some love is rust. But the finest, cleanest love is lust.
~ Ian Fleming
Now it's your turn again,' she said. 'Buy me another drink and then tell me what sort of a woman you think would add to you.' Bond gave his order to the steward. He lit a cigarette and turned back to her. 'Somebody who can make Sauce Béarnaise as well as love,' he said. 'Holy mackerel! Just any old dumb hag who can cook and lie on her back?
~ Ian Fleming
Some love is fire, some love is rust. But the finest, cleanest love is lust.
~ Ian Fleming
Miss Moneypenny would have been desirable but for eyes which were cool and direct and quizzical.
~ Ian Fleming
Love just follows you.
~ Ian Mcewan
A man isn't a god. Committing errors is part of his attraction as a human being; it inspires a feeling of warmth toward him, and so admiration and devotion are aroused.
~ Ian W. Toll
Five minutes later, we were rolling around on the helipad as he tried to muscle his way out of my armlock, after slamming me onto the helipad. "I finally realized the source of your mutual attraction," Saiman said, his voice dry. I looked up. He was standing a few feet away. "Do enlighten us." Curran tried to roll into me to break the lock. Oh no you don't. "You both think violence is foreplay.
~ Ilona Andrews
Some men got excited by white lace and a translucent negligee. My love muffin got excited by a woman dressed to murder. There was probably something deeply twisted about that. Lucky for me, negligees were never my thing.
~ Ilona Andrews
Shave that jaw, brush that hair, tone down the crazy in the eyes, and he would have to fight women off with that crossbow.
~ Ilona Andrews
Can you turn so you're not pressed against me?" "I could," he said, his voice amused. "But then you would have to lie on top of me." My brain said, "NO." My body went, "Wheee!
~ Ilona Andrews