Quotes About Desire

Tu sei più o meno l'unica cosa che mi fa desiderare di svegliarmi.

I swore I wouldn't contact you again. But six weeks on, and I feel no better. Being without you-thousands of miles from you-offer is no relief at all. The fact that I am no longer tormented by your presence, or presented with daily evidence of my inability to have the one thing I truly desire, has not healed me. It has made things worse. My future feels like a bleak, empty road.

And I kissed him until reason seeped out through my pores and I became a living pulse, conscious only of what I wanted to do to him.

I often ordered chips, just so that I could watch them all pretend they didn't want one.

Perhaps we all harbor a perverse need to get close to the things that might destroy us.

I just…want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more." I released the door handle. "Sure." I closed my eyes and lay my head against the headrest, and we sat there together for a while longer, two people lost in remembered music, half hidden in the shadow of a castle on a moonlit hill.

The fact that I am no longer tormented by your proximity, or presented with daily evidence of my inability to have the one thing I truly want, has not healed me. It

Si sente vivo e spregiudicato. Vuole vedere Nell ridere. Vuole andare in un club e ballare con lei fino alle ore piccole, con una mano sulla sua schiena sudata, tenendo gli occhi incatenati ai suoi. Vuole rimanere sveglio fino all'alba per un buon motivo, eccitato dall'alcol, dal divertimento e dalla magia di Parigi. Vuole assaporare la sensazione di speranza che nasce dall'incontro con una persona sconosciuta, qualcuna che vede solo il meglio di te, non il peggio.

It was nobody's right to be happy, after all.

I had spent months wishing I had more free time. Now that I had it, I found the city was not a friendly place without money to burn.

And she deserved it, didn't she? She had told herself, desperately trying to rationalize the hurt she was about to cause. She was allowed another chance? Why should she have to give up on romantic love at the age of thirty-five?

just … want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more.

The other was, simply, that I didn't really have an appetite for spending.

Will's eyes locked onto mine and despite everything,

I don't really know what I'm hoping for, but all suggestions gratefully received.

I would honestly have changed my flight, perhaps even disappeared until I could make sure that there was between us a whole continent, not just a few impossible inches.

Quise apretar mi cuerpo por completo contra él. Quise inspirarle un deseo. Quise entregarle toda la vida que sentía y obligarle a vivir. Comprendí que tenía miedo de vivir sin él ¿Cómo es que tienes el derecho a destrozarme la vida, quise preguntrale, pero yo no tengo ningún poder en la tuya?

It was painful to see the best of him directed at someone else.

I want to tell him that I don't know what I feel. I want him but I'm frightened to want him. I don't want my happiness to be entirely dependent on somebody else's, to be a hostage to fortunes I cannot control.

I just . . . want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more.

I just want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress

have given up my best years and watched my friends freeze, drown and burn. I have given up my innocence, my friends their lives, so that I might grieve for what I was never sure I even wanted. At least, until it was too late.

There was something about sliding into a man's shirt – Fred's shirt – that made her breath catch in her throat.

Let the flickering flame of your soul play all about me That into my limbs may come the keenness of fire …