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Quotes About Desire

Today I will go to wait for her again, because I cannot help it, because my whole being seems now to be bound up in the being of one so different from myself and yet so exquisitely familiar that I can scarely understand what has happened.
~ Elizabeth Kostova
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep. People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don't go back to sleep.
~ Elizabeth Lesser
Show me your dreams. Let me make them come true.
~ Elizabeth Lowell
intriguing sensual pleasure.
~ Elizabeth Lowell
It is hard to be warmed by starlight, when you want the sun.
~ Elizabeth Mansfield
Single people eat sadly--they cobble together things left from shopping trips based on dreams of all the meals they'd fix for themselves, all the ways they'd treat themselves to something grand; those dreams, for me, died by the next day and, despite my best hopes, I wanted only canned hash and apples.
~ Elizabeth McCracken
All she really wanted was to go to her apartment, to her bedroom, to the back of her walk-in closet, to sit among the shoes.
~ Elizabeth McCracken
Aunt Helen Beck did not believe in fate, but she did think that you made mistakes according to what you wanted in your heart, and she could not understand what it was she wanted this time, what she was trying to tell herself.
~ Elizabeth McCracken
Movie kisses looked like they'd hurt. She couldn't get enough of them. They made her feel alive - not in any expansive way, but assessed, her pulse taken, a rubber mallet to the knee that made her kick.
~ Elizabeth McCracken
Enough fine weather and money and a few memorable meals make any place desirable.
~ Elizabeth McCracken
I loved him because I wanted to save him, and because I could not. I loved him because I wanted to be enough for him, and I was not. I loved him because I discovered that day, after years of practice, I had a talent for it.
~ Elizabeth McCracken
Do you think wishful thinking is a psychiatric condition?
~ Elizabeth Mckenzie
Part of her wanted to do all the normal bridely things and the other part wanted to embrace her disdain for everything of the sort.
~ Elizabeth Mckenzie
Cuando mi piel recuperó un tono uniforme, dormí con otro hombre y descubrí, al ver mis manos torpemente tiradas en la sábana a ambos lados de mi cuerpo, que había olvidado qué hacer con ellas.
~ Elizabeth McNeill
By the time the utter predictability of my orgasm sank into my brain, it had, of course, long been familiar to my body. There was no mistaking the power this man had over me. Like a well-made windup toy, whenever he set me in motion I came. Moods of wanting or not wanting to make love were moods I remembered as from a book. It was not a matter of insatiability but one of inevitability of response. He did what he did and then I always, inevitably, finally came. Only the preludes varied.
~ Elizabeth McNeill
He shouldn't want to see her, but he did. He shouldn't want to know how she felt, how she tasted, but he did. He shouldn't want to know what food she liked or what she thought about when she was alone. He shouldn't want to know what her favorite music was or what she did when she wasn't modeling, if she did anything at all, but he did. He wanted to know everything there was to know about Razel D'Punz; the real Razel. No makeup. No costumes. No lights or camera.
~ Elizabeth Morgan
She has always wanted you as a mate, Owen.
~ Elizabeth Morgan
Please don't let this be a dream. I don't want to wake up, if it is.
~ Elizabeth Morgan
Right, I can't watch this shit." Kacey grunted as he got up. "It's one thing getting a hard-on over you, baby girl. The fact that Tyler happens to be in the picture…I'm freaking slightly.
~ Elizabeth Morgan
Ever since I saw you"—she pulled me closer and draped both of my legs over her shoulders. Her eyes blazed with hunger—"I have just wanted to eat you up.
~ Elizabeth Morgan
Don't you like them?" She ran her fingers across the waistband of her panties. "I'm afraid I can't appreciate them in such low lighting. You will have to take them off and let me have a better look." He tried to smile innocently. She rested her hands on her hips and shook her head slowly. "Very well. I will have to do it for you." He took a step closer to her.
~ Elizabeth Morgan
I have. You. For Life. Bonded. Not Bonded. Fuck the details. I just want to be with you, Clare.
~ Elizabeth Morgan
He pressed his forearms flat against the wall, caging me with his body. Electric heat sparked in the space between us. He pulled back. His irises swirled with silver flecks, twisting into a metallic pool. His Wolf stared down at me. "I don't want anyone touching you, except me.
~ Elizabeth Morgan
The desire to run so far that he wouldn't be able to catch up played through me, but in my gut, I knew he would. And somehow, it filled me with an odd sense of safety, knowing that, no matter how far I ran, he would always be able to catch me, and I would always want him to.
~ Elizabeth Morgan