Quotes About Temptation

Just for a moment, I longed to succumb to the hysteria within me that was demanding admission.

Daniel noticed that Sofia glared hungrily at the remains of the fruit as Enniel replaced it on the altar. She looked as if she might rise up, throw herself across the temple, and gorge herself on the sticky fragments.

I am she who once lived within your father, but he cast me out at the old domain. I miss him so badly. I miss the warmth of flesh. Let me in, Dragon Heir. Let me lie comfortably within your skin. I can show you such delights.

The flesh tingled only slightly. Louis was no voracious monster like Emilia Manden. A slight glow still played around Louis's lips, which were shuddering. Othman knew the ichor would have tasted wonderful, literally divine

Her gaze travelled down his chest to the dark coins of his nipples, which seemed to call for a halo of lips to encircle them, for eager teeth to bite them.

Perhaps a measure of Waters of Life to clear his senses." "No," snarled Khaster. "Give me the Witch." "Khas…" "I'm all right. Give it to me.

They danced together, bodies close, belly-grinding to the rhythm, invoking the demands of lust.

She visualised an image of dark, shady hallways, where fans turned slowly on the ceiling, parting the thick smoke of hashish; dark eyes behind a lattice, the low chuckle of feminine laughter, the swish of light cotton against polished floors. Such a strange summoning.

To Aninka, he seemed all bones and ribs, his skin stretched tightly over his body. His slim naked feet looked fragile. Aninka swallowed, thought Shem's boy. And understood immediately the root of Taz's desire. Shemyaza had touched this creature; part of him lived in Daniel.

She found herself wondering what the world would have been like if Shemyaza and the others had never disobeyed the laws of Kharsag and taken human wives.

You chose the wrong path, Wilfish. You could have been with me, which we both know is what you truly desired.

Looking back, Daniel could see he was seduced from the start.

Othman told me things about us-he thinks, or knows, there's something different about us. He wants us, Lil. Don't flatter yourself he's in love with you, or anything. He wants more than that-from both of us. So don't go falling for him. It could be dangerous.

How was it possible to own such power? Khaster knew Tayven wanted him, so he couldn't refuse. Was this any better than what Bayard had done earlier? He couldn't tell. He just wanted to taste those lips.

We have given the gift of longevity to those who have worked for us, but it is a corrupting force. I could give you that, Daniel, but it would ruin you.

It is an addictive substance, life.

I didn't want to be a pretty bauble. I craved to be far more dangerous." "There are few things more dangerous than a pretty bauble, as Almorante well knew. By now, I expect Tatrini does as well." "I have fulfilled my vocation then.

Ahhh," breathed the serpent, "to be desired by princes and kings. I am you, Tayven. I am the snake inside your pretty skin that bit them and poisoned their hearts.

It's like having a demon in a bottle. It's power, Jordan but, like a demon, unpredictable.

I want you, Daniel, to be with me. Taste the fatal apple; I have held it for eternity. It is humanity's curse, but if you want the knowledge, you can't avoid plucking the forbidden fruit.

I could not let such a tasty morsel pass through my domain without knowing him this way.

She'd have to get Shemyaza away from this place before what was left of him was destroyed.

Brinorah felt she could rub her hands together and a scale of evil would fall from her in flakes, a taint she had not accepted intentionally, but which she was aware had besmirched her as much as any other who had stood by and allowed Alomeah her bloody free rein.

Magrast was like someone's version of hell; there was opulance and luxury, but a dark, rotten heart to it. So far, Khaster had only glimpsed the other Magrast, but he sensed it was there. The eyes of the whores, both male and female, who haunted the mazelike streets, oozed a knowledge that was not just sexual. Khaster perceived a veiled invitation: I can show things beyond your dreams or nightmares. Come to me, succumb. Learn. Then pay.