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Quotes About Desire

Because you can want and want and want..But if he doesn't want you back...you might as well wish the sky were red.
~ Sophie Kinsella
But the trouble with asking your subconscious what it wants is, it just laughs at you and says, 'Work it out for yourself, moron.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Well, I don't howl. Not quite. But I feel like howling.
~ Sophie Kinsella
He leans forward, and this time there's no hesitation. His mouth lands on mine, sweet and firm. He's kissing me. Jack
~ Sophie Kinsella
She somehow understands that I have to know how Seb is, because I feel this strange, inextricable link to him. Which isn't a relationship-- God, of course not. We're not even friends, really. It's just... it's a different kind of thing. A yearning. A tugging in my heart. A need to be with him and know that he's OK. I mean, what would you call that?
~ Sophie Kinsella
I've seen bright, intelligent girls, waiting and hoping…" She shakes her head. "They know deep down he'll never come back." "So why do they hope?" I can't help asking. "Because it's human nature to hope for impossible things.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Husband disappeared? Order in your lover instead.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Every woman in the world sometimes thinks about shoes in the middle of sex. It's a well-known fact.
~ Sophie Kinsella
You just have to accept it, Effie, says Bean, sounding sad. I know it's hard. When Hal dumped me, all I wanted was Hal. I wanted him so badly, I thought the universe must give me him. It must. Her voice trembles. But it didn't. I couldn't have him. I had to have something different. I had to be happy with something different. Otherwise, what am I going to do, just cry my whole life? She sits up in bed, a ray of moonlight making her eyes glitter. What are you going to do, cry your whole life?
~ Sophie Kinsella
All I can say is, she's the one I think about." Margaret pauses, and her voice softens as she reads. "All the time. She's the voice I want to hear. She's the face I hope to see." My throat is full of lumps. I'm swallowing desperately, trying to keep my composure. He's the one I think about. All the time. He's the voice I want to hear. When my phone bleeps, I hope it's him.
~ Sophie Kinsella
What is it about shoes? I mean, I like most kind of clothes, but a fabulous pair of shoes can just reduce me to jelly. Sometimes, when no-one else is at home, I open my wardrobe and just stare at all my pairs of shoes, like some mad collector. And once I lined them all up on my bed and took a photograph of them. Which might seem a bit weird, but I thought, I've got loads of photos of people I don't really like, so why not take one of something I love?
~ Sophie Kinsella
What is it about shoes? I mean, I like most kinds of clothes, but a good pair of shoes can just reduce me to jelly. Sometimes, when Suze isn't at home, I open my wardrobe and just stare at all my pairs of shoes, like some mad collector. And once I lined them all up on my bed and took a photograph of them. Which might seem a bit weird—but I thought, I've got loads of photos of people I don't really like, so why not take one of something I really love?
~ Sophie Kinsella
He's the one I think about. All the time. He's the voice I want to hear. When my phone bleeps, I hope it's him. "Who
~ Sophie Kinsella
I want him. Desperately. Even I simultaneously know that a lot of things I might want in life are not good choices.
~ Sophie Kinsella
It was nice to want you so badly it made me breathless yet at the same time hate myself.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Because it's human nature to hope for impossible things." She eyes me shrewdly. "You're in marketing. You know that.
~ Sophie Kinsella
I tell myself to look away, but the truth is, I don't want to look away. I want to be drawn into his gaze. Which is dumb. And wrong. He belongs to another woman, I remind myself sternly. He likes whiny, shouty, newsreadery-type women.
~ Sophie Kinsella
knight in shining armor is not a realistic option. But there's a part of me that wants a huge, amazing romance. I want passion. I want to be swept off my feet. I want an earthquake, or a Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I don't know, a huge whirlwind Ã¢â'¬Â¦ something exciting. Sometimes I feel as if there's this whole new, thrilling life waiting for me out there, and if I can just—
~ Sophie Kinsella
He pauses to stretch out his fingers and I'm suddenly transfixed by his hands. Hands which used to roam over me, caress me, make love to me. I know how much emotional intelligence is in those hands. I know how he balances thoughtful, cerebral caution with audacious risk-taking, all without a flicker.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Wild as you are, all that love you must love you still.
~ Sophocles
Yes it will be a grace if I die. To exist is pain. Life is no desire of mine anymore.
~ Sophocles
Whatever is sought for can be caught, you know, whatever is neglected slips away.
~ Sophocles
You're in love with impossibility
~ Sophocles
Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.
~ Sophocles