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Quotes About Desire

Nearing fifty, Vinny felt more than ever the sweet disappointments only a romantic knows, whose very desires invite frustration; who loves twilight rather than midday, the echo more than the voice, the moon more than the sun, and women better than men;
~ Elizabeth Taylor
Want to know the best part of being a warlord?' came a hoarse whisper. I bit my lip, puzzled by the question. Keir's mouth curled up slowly into a smile. 'I always get what I want.
~ Elizabeth Vaughan
He leaned down and nuzzled my ear. "Ah, my Lara. I took you from your sheltered den, kitten." "No." I straightened, wiping my face. "I left my den and chased you, remember?
~ Elizabeth Vaughan
How passionately she longed to be important to somebody again - not important on platforms, not important as an asset in an organisation, but privately important, just to one other person, quite privately, nobody else to know or notice. It didn't seem much to ask in a world so crowded with people, just to have one of them, only one out of all the millions to oneself. Somebody who needed one, who thought of one, who was eager to come to one - oh, oh how dreadfully one wanted to be precious.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
It is possible there are some things you want so badly that you will change your life to make them happen.
~ Elizabeth Wein
Have you ever loved anything?" "Yes. Yes. All the wrong things. The hunt, and darkness, and winter, and you, Godmother.
~ Elizabeth Wein
Have you ever loved anything?" Yes. Yes. All the wrong things. The hunt, and darkness, and winter, and you, Godmother.
~ Elizabeth Wein
But mainly, so very, very stupid. I desperately want to grow old.
~ Elizabeth Wein
That's why we like to make things pretty; it's just'cause we're so dang sick of cleaning up horrible messes. Same instinct
~ Elizabeth Wein
take me. Ancient
~ Elizabeth Wein
Which would you rather have––an unlimited supply of Chanel No. 5, or freedom?
~ Elizabeth Wein
That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
He said little about his dream but he nourished it in his heart as the best place for a dream to grow.
~ Elizabeth Yates
It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
To know for an hour you were mine completely -- Mine in body and soul, my own -- I would bear unending tortures sweetly, With not a murmur and not a moan. A lighter sin or a lesser error Might change through hope or fear divine; But there is no fear, and hell has no terror, To change or alter a love like mine.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I love your lips when they're wet with wine and red with wicked desire
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I would kneel by the bank, in the grasses dank, And drink you, drink you, drink you. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox, from "If," Picked Poems . (Chicago: W. B. Conkey Company, 1912)
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I want to spend time with you.
~ Elle James
He covered her hands with his. "Why the hurry?" "Seriously?" She stared at him, her jaw dropping. "I'm on fire! If we wait one more minute, I'm certain the sheets will spontaneously combust. I won't be held responsible if your house burns down because you wanted to waste time on foreplay.
~ Elle James
When he stood before her naked, he couldn't believe this beautiful woman, with the pale skin, flaming auburn hair, and eyes the color of spring hay, lay waiting for him. Phoebe's cheeks flushed a pretty pink. "You look like you're hungry and ready to eat the proffered offering." "I am, and I will.
~ Elle James
he stole her very soul in that one kiss.
~ Elle James
He took her face in both his hands and kissed her like they weren't even married yet
~ Ellen Baker
Unfortunately, even as he removed his shirt to reveal shoulders good enough to make a girl go slack-jawed, his only thought was of the errant au gratin potato. "Here you go, Doll," he said, holding his shirt out to her. "Maybe you could get that cheese out, before it's too late.
~ Ellen Baker
The sound has hooks beneath his skin, wanting to drag him in among the trees.
~ Ellen Datlow