Quotes About Temptation

It was good. It was like something inordinately beautiful and out of this world. Like I'd found an actual planet that I didn't know had been there all along. Planet Heroin. The place where there was no pain.

Saying it's hard is ultimately a justification to do whatever seems like the easiest thing to do -- have the affair, stay at that horrible job, end a friendship over a slight, keep loving someone who treats you terribly.

I stopped at the door where the racks of Snapples were kept. I put my hand to the glass near the bottles of lemonade—there was both yellow and pink. They were like diamonds or pornography. I could look, but I couldn't touch.

You're clear you don't want to act on your crush, so trust that clarity and be grateful that you have it. My inbox is jammed with emails from people who are not so clear. They're tortured by indecision and guilt and lust. They love X but want to fuck Z....Z is like a motorcycle with no one on it. Beautiful. Going nowhere.

fountains of inconvenient feeling—and toward the frantic enticements of

Later, Jim thought of the bus the same way he thought of a Harlem whore. Everything is so easy until you step into that dark hallway, and bang.

Don't fall in love with her again, a voice within me warned. You never fell out of love with her, another voice countered with an evil laugh.

Why would any guy want to be only friends with a girl? It's like agreeing to be near a chocolate cake and never eat it. It's like sitting in a racing car but not driving it. Only wimps do that.

I guess that is why most people drink anyway. To shut up their inner critic. So they can do whatever the hell they want.

Almost an addiction. Like smoking, when you know it is bad for you but you can't seem to leave it.

Come to the Dark Side. We have chocolate.

You know statistics have proven that listening to prohibition lecturers has driven more people to drink than any other cause.

Vinyl is Satan's resin.

...certain it is that minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort, and like them, are often successfully cured by remedies in themselves very nauseous and unpalatable.

Beauty's sister is vanity, and its daughter lust.

A vice is a harm I do to myself in the pursuit of pleasure.

Wine is a turn-coat, first a friend, then an enemy.

A flirt is as strong as her weakest wink.

Women are angels, wooing...

Women are beautiful, and yummy.

...I had seen to gather herself out of the atoms of the mist. She was so fair to look on, so radiantly beautiful, so exquisitely voluptuous, that the very instinct of man in me, which calls some of my sex to love and to protect one of hers, made my head whirl with new emotion.

@AnonymousVoyeur, tweet, 2012

Chocolate is the answer. Who cares what the question is.

Criminal Minds, Bad Moon on the Rise: "Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the moon is full and bright."