Quotes About Temptation

I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.

Desire, if handled incorrectly, could become a curse.

You can get addicted to trouble if you're not careful.

There was a spark inside that holiest of holy places that made people want to possess it, and what men yearn for they often destroy.

the eldest who had the misfortune of being too beautiful and had a far off look in her eyes. Madame Cohen had seen what could happen to girls like that, they were picked off like fruit on a tree, devoured by blackbirds.

I wondered if all creatures were drawn to what was dangerous or if we merely wanted light at any cost and were willing to burn for our desires.

But then you like to tempt fate, don't you? Don't worry, it will all work out

Desire had a way of making a person oddly courageous. In the aunts' opinion, it could sneak up on a grown woman and turn her from a sensible creature into something as foolish as a flea that keeps chasing after the same old dog.

And yet he imagined leaping into the blue-green water, thousands of miles from here, in a land where no one followed the rules set forth, where a sin might float like a flower in a fountain and a man was free to do as he pleased.

We all burn for what is bad for us...burn him in return. Maybe then the bastard won't have such a hold over you.

You may think it is one thing, when in fact it is something else entirely: infatuation, loneliness, seduction.

Just like you still think you'll be happier if you run away.

Sam said, Hey, you want to get high? Amy had taken his words to mean You are so beautiful I am undone by you.

The devil loves these short, dark days.

As soon as a man and woman of almost any age are alone together within four walls it is assumed that anything may happen. Spontaneous combustion, instant fornication, triumph of the senses. What possibilities men and women must see in each other to infer such dangers. Or, believing in the dangers, how often they must think about the possibilities.

To be a femme fatale you don't have to be slinky and sensuous and disastrously beautiful, you just have to have the will to disturb.

The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.

He liked her not knowing. I could tell. He liked her not knowing. Her ignorance woke a pleasure that melted on his tongue, like a lick of toffee.

I used to be a devil myself.

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What I think was hardest for me to realize was that he had tried each time to stop himself. He had killed animals, taking lesser lives to keep from killing a child

She was in the downstairs bathroom sneaking bites from the macaroons my father's firm always sent us for Christmas. She ate them greedily they were like suns bursting open in her mouth.

Yeah, I say. He make it up in cigarettes, sell 'em for a dime. It rot your breath, I say, but yall want to try one? Not if it make us crazy, say Sofia. It hard enough to get by without being a fool.

Collin sat on a marble bench, chaste white, funereal, carved with the words PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT. When he opened his arms for Nina, a guard hurried over. "Sir! I'm sorry—you can't sit there!