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Quotes About Temptation

And then, with the feather-green darkness pressed against the windows, he puts his filthy fingers on my scrubbed hope face and says, If I kiss you, it's all over. And then he does. And then it is.
~ Emma Forrest
I thought of him, with his feet in the Chateau Marmont pool and his fork in a carrot cake. He was just a little kid. I was upset at what I had introduced him to, the records and films he didn't already know. I felt like a mother who had left syringes around the room and let her baby get hooked on hard drugs.
~ Emma Forrest
Have you ever eaten something appalling for breakfast, something really bad for you, a chocolate cake, and just thought, Fuck it, this is bad, I'd better keep going? Christ, this is making me feel horrible, I'd better have more?
~ Emma Forrest
Una mujer a la que le gustan los frutos prohibidos y odia a los vigilantes de los parques públicos no puede ser del todo mala.
~ Emmanuelle Arsan
De modo que fue así como, en las primeras mañanas que iluminó el Sol, el árbol del bien y del mal verdeció y se desafiaron las prohibiciones?
~ Emmanuelle Arsan
Are you an angel or a devil, sir? I need to know. Are you taking me up or down?
~ Eoin Colfer
That's the problem with being a semi-reformed criminal: you are never free from guilt. Exposure is always just a phone call away.
~ Eoin Colfer
My truffles?" gasped Opal. "You took them. That's just mean.
~ Eoin Colfer
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
~ Epictetus
Tis true I know what evil I shall do but passion overpowers the better council.
~ Epictetus
If you meet temptation, use self-control; if you meet pain, use fortitude; if you meet revulsion, use patience.
~ Epictetus
When you feel burning desire for something that appears pleasureful, you are like a person under a spell. Instead of acting on impulse, take a step back—wait till the enchantment fades and you can see things as they are.
~ Epictetus
Most of what passes for legitimate entertainment is inferior or foolish and only caters to or exploits people's weakness.
~ Epictetus
they are not tempted to use the slime of frustrated souls as mortar in the building of a new world.
~ Eric Hoffer
Even the righteous man is just a sinner living in between sins.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to temptation!
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
even the righteous man is just a sinner livin in between sins!
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
He tongue swiped my sex like was licking the frosting off a cupcake. I called out to heaven again. . . . My sounds encouraged him to torture me.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
He dropped his towel. He showed me what I had gotten myself into, what wanted to get into me.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
Tonight I was stealing the time of another woman.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
My sounds encouraged his tongue to torture me. . . . Without embarrassment he sucked me like I was a man . . . . Glanced up at me as I looked down at him. . . . Then put all of his tongue deep inside me again. I lost it. People in planes, and on Century, Sepulveda, and Airport boulevards, heard my sexual pleas.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
I felt it coming and it felt so good, the hollowness inside my belly, a rising savageness, a sensation of hunger that I wanted to run from, yet embrace; control, yet submit to; and all I could do was squirm.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
Can I buy you a drink when you get off? I don't drink. Alcohol is bad for my legs. Do they swell? No, they spread.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
Sleeping with strangers will have you walking with enemies.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey