logo

Quotes About Temptation

Oh my Lord...she'd seduced her brother-in-law with butter.
~ Liane Moriarty
They were sitting on the couch chatting politely with me, not touching, or so it seemed, except that I happened to glance down and I saw that their hands were lying next to each other on the couch, and that Nick was caressing Alice's little finger with his own. I remember being shocked by a feeling of pure envy. I wanted to be Alice, young and lovely, feeling the secret caress of a handsome boy's fingertip.
~ Liane Moriarty
Of course they danced together; how could Callum resist dancing with a real live woman instead of a cardboard cut-out?
~ Liane Moriarty
Back then he was thinking with his dick.
~ Liane Moriarty
that expensive butcher in the arcade on the way home from the
~ Liane Moriarty
At some point, Will made a choice to look at Felicity with the eyes of a single man. That was the moment he betrayed Tess.
~ Liane Moriarty
This was rock bottom. She'd just licked a Kit Kat wrapper.
~ Liane Moriarty
Now she understood. She could happily murder someone today! In fact, she felt like there should be some sort of recognition for her remarkable strength of character that she didn't.
~ Liane Moriarty
If you valued your marriage, you kept a barricade around yourself and your feelings and your thoughts. You didn't let your eyes linger. You didn't stay for the second drink. You kept the flirting safe. You just didn't go there.
~ Liane Moriarty
She was easily addicted: men, food, wine. In fact, she felt like a glass of wine right now, and the sun was still high in the sky. Lately, she'd been drinking. Maybe not excessively, but certainly more enthusiastically than usual.
~ Liane Moriarty
apart. It was why, if you valued your marriage, you kept a barricade around yourself and your feelings and your thoughts. You didn't let your eyes linger. You didn't stay for the second drink. You kept the flirting safe. You just didn't go there. At some point, Will made a choice to look at Felicity with the eyes of a single man. That was the moment he betrayed Tess.
~ Liane Moriarty
She'd never really existed to him. She was of no consequence in his life. He was married to a beautiful woman. Jane was pornography. Jane was the adult movie that didn't appear on his hotel bill. Jane was Internet porn, where every fetish can be fulfilled. You have a fetish for humiliating fat girls? Enter your credit card number and click right here.
~ Liane Moriarty
And then everyone's like, Oh, Pandora. Where's your willpower? You were told not to open that box, you snoopy girl, you typical woman with your insatiable curiosity; now look what you've gone and done.
~ Liane Moriarty
It was what she imagined doing heroin would be like: terrible for you but impossible to resist.
~ Unknown
When we rise above our temptations and resist them, we exercise self-control. And that's when we experience true freedom and emotional health.
~ Unknown
True freedom is not about being able to do whatever we feel like doing; rather, it is about being able to do what we truly want to do, in spite of what we feel like doing at the moment.
~ Unknown
Devil on my shoulder, the lord is my witness. So on my Libra scare, Im weighing sins and forgiveness.
~ Lil Wayne
You can wear a condom but you cant come here.
~ Lil Wayne
I hate to see her go, but Id love to watch her leave. But I keep her runnin back and forth like a soccer team.
~ Lil Wayne
But but he so sweet, she wanna lick the rapper.
~ Lil Wayne
But hes so sweet, she wanna lick the rapper.
~ Lil Wayne
First one's free.
~ Lilith Saintcrow
Some days, a killing spree seems like a good idea.
~ Lilith Saintcrow
No problem, Goth Boy. First one's free.
~ Unknown