Quotes About Temptation

It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken

We tread water, looking at each other, and suddenly there's not enough water in the world to clean away my dirty thoughts. She

I close the doors and yank off my sweater, and she pulls off her shirt, and I say, "You are driving me crazy. You have been driving me crazy for weeks." My

Every time a girl refuses to eat, she one-ups Eve.

The loch was the worst kind of dangerous: beautiful and tempting.

I have a head for business and a body for sin. Unfortunately, the sin appears to be gluttony.

I want to go to the party!' 'I said no.' 'I've been totally good.' 'You shot me with an arrow.

Why is it so hard to say no to him? Is this what it's like to be in love with somebody?

When she leaned forward to mess with the AC vents, her hair brushed against my leg and it was really soft. It made remember all over again. It made it hard to stay pissed and keep her at arm's length the way I'd planned. It was pretty near damn impossible. When I was near her, I just wanted to grab her and hold her and kiss the shit out of her. Maybe then she'd forget about my asshole of a brother.

I've fallen for the one person I shouldn't have. For the boy who broke Mary's heart. For Rennie's one true love. For Alex's best friend. It has to end here. Now.

Chris gives me a new lipstick: red for when I want to be bad, she says.

For a second or two I considered taking Clay's beer. It would be my first. But then I'd only be doing it to spite Conrad, and I wasn't going to let him control what I did.

You should head back up," Jeremiah said, putting his beer down. "Your mom will kill you for drinking." "Hello. I'm not drinking," I reminded him. Clay offered me his Corona. "Here," he said, winking. He seemed drunk. I hesitated, and Conrad snapped irritably, "Don't give her that. She's a kid, for God's sake.

If you put ice cream on anything, it's good," Kitty says.

For your information, cocoa is my specialty.

I don't know if you want my help, Katherine. See, I'm really distracting to women. I make them lose their count." Peter winks at her and I make a gagging sound. "Why don't you stay down here and help us bake?

Is there anything more intoxicating than making a boy bend to your will?

I guess I just got carried away with the night, with being there. I didn't want to think about home or real life.

Later Sherilyn's mom brings out a couple of pizzas, and of course the boys stumble out of the pool and fall onto the pizzas like wild beasts. They're dripping pool water all over the food, and I elbow my way in to get a couple of pieces of pepperoni before they're either soggy or gone. As I inhale my first piece, I overhear Mairi announce that she's on a no-carb diet. Hadley says she wouldn't eat greasy pizza anyway, and Sherilyn looks crestfallen.

Conrad was the older one, by a year and a half. He was dark, dark, dark. Completely unattainable, unavailable. He had a smirky kind of mouth, and I always found myself staring at it. Smirky mouths make you want to kiss them, to smooth them out and kiss the smirkiness away. Or maybe not away… but you want to control it somehow. Make it yours. It was exactly what I wanted to do with Conrad. Make him mine.

Whenever the wife wants to do drugs, she thinks about Sartre. One bad trip and then a giant lobster followed him around for the rest of his days.

I offer her some birthday cake. She goes into the usual bit about temptation and sinfulness and maybe this and maybe that, and we have to go through every station of the fucking cross before she takes a bite of it.

He asks me what my favored platforms are. I explain that I don't use any of them because they make me feel too squirrelly. Or not exactly squirrelly, more like a rat who can't stop pushing a lever. Pellet of affection! Pellet of rage! Please, please, my pretty!

My brother told me once that he missed drugs because they made the world stop calling to him.