Quotes About Desire

Sugar is not love. But it can feel like it.

It is genuinely possible to reach the point where you desire broccoli more than fries and wholemeal sourdough more than sliced white bread.

Appetite is a profoundly social impulse.

Force-feeding is a crime of passion, driven by a parent's desire to see a child eat; as with other crimes of passion, the perpetrator has lost sight of the loved one's autonomy.

If we are going to change our diets, we first have to relearn the art of eating, which is a question of psychology as much as nutrition. We have to find a way to want to eat what's good for us.

Many men want wealth--not a competence alone, but a five-story competence. Every thing subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning rod to their houses, to ward off, by and by, the bolts of divine wrath.

Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

The soul is often hungrier than the body, and no shops can sell it food.

God's whole nature moves toward the man who wants to be free from sin, as broadly and irresistibly as the summer moves from the south toward the north.

That sense of power was all she craved.

The long procession of men flickered before her like faces on cards quickly riffled—blurred, two-dimensional. Only their desire for her mattered.

It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.

I never drink... wine.

The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.

We seem to have an insatiable thirst for places that don't exist, for griffins and wondrous dragons prowling the antipodes of a world we hardly recognize. They symbolize states of growth we haven't yet achieved.

His lips brushed my ear. "In case you were wondering, this dress is better than the towel. But just so you know, I liked the towel too.

To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are not prepared to give, we seek romantic relationships. We believe these relationships, more than any other, will rescue and redeem us. True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.

All he knew was that she was beautiful...and that, somehow, despite everything he'd done to try to stop it from happening, she'd managed to steal his heart one sassy smile at a time.

Maybe it was simply that falling in love wasn't something Lori would ever be able to turn away from, regardless of just how much pain she knew would be coming down the pike. And maybe, just maybe, as long as she never actually confessed to him how she felt, that would make it okay to give in to what she felt for Grayson for one night, beneath the moon, with the smell of wild grass and the ocean all around them...

Sex had always been at the top of her favorite-things list, but this desire-this total, all-encompassing need-was something else entirely.

How am I looking at you?" "Like I'm Little Red to your big bad wolf." "Well," he said slowly, "I do want to eat you.

But sometimes, it's harder to admit to ourselves we want love in our lives than it is to keep living without it.

You've got to understand , Angel, a man like me looks at a women like you and it's inevitable thatIm going to screw things up ".

I can never get enough. The more I have of you, the more I want." - Kiss Me Like This by Bella Andre