Quotes About Desire

The only thing I want is to be loved as a grown person with the right to her own dreams.

returned to the typewriter, angrily erasing and correcting each mistake she'd made, desperately wishing she could as easily wipe out her mental image of the man in her carriage house.

When we don't have something in our lives, we tell ourselves that we don't need it, that we don't want it—because the alternative is aching for it, which breeds a sense of loss. So, we remove it from the picture we make of our lives. What we don't see, we don't miss. Then, as Paul said, something happens

OLIVIA DIDN'T WANT TO SEE SIMON. She didn't know how to deal with what she felt. It was raw physical attraction with no emotional link, and it was totally wrong at

So, is it harder to dream about what you don´t have than to live in fear of losing what you do?

Always a sucker for blue eyes, she was relieved to be released.

Tonight?" Hope asked.

lattice table by the pool. JW Sterling tried to ignore the fresh baking, but his gaze caught and held

fathom clearly in the background din, but its warmth speared through his loins, made him grit his teeth. Hiro pulled her more securely to his side. "It must be a mere manifestation of your

I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.

It's not so much what we're missing—it's what we fantasize we're missing.

we believe there is something essential we don't have that's obtainable. what we long for doesn't exist, not anywhere. the ache is in the belief)

I have so much, and yet I'm still not happy.

spine. She told herself not to get carried away. He was

I don't want you anymore. I don't want to be second choice, second best, second whatever. I don't want to be the one who trails after you like some stupid lost puppy dog. I don't want to be the one you got stuck with after the one you loved got away.

I wanted to smell the guitars. It's hard to explain but they have a smell. And the best way I could ever describe it would be to say they smell like potential. Ambition and desire. If such things had a smell.

The question is always the answer, provided you want the answer badly enough.

There is no temptation from outside the heart.

She had come to terms with her lack of beauty, but never with her lack of genius in the single thing she had ever wanted.

I am looking for my Caravaggio, always.

There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and flattens the stomachs.

What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.