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Quotes About Desire

Somewhere on the other side of this wide night and the distance between us, I am thinking of you. The room is turning slowly away from the moon. This is pleasurable. Or shall I cross that out and say it is sad? In one of the tenses I singing an impossible song of desire that you cannot hear. La lala la. See? I close my eyes and imagine the dark hills I would have to cross to reach you. For I am in love with you and this is what it is like or what it is like in words.
~ Carol Ann Duffy
You have me like a drawing, erased, coloured in, untitled, signed by your tongue.
~ Carol Ann Duffy
It was fun playing with fire, but she wasn't a girl who liked to get burned.
~ Carol Rose
Boiled down, isn't love just a form of vanity? You know, the wish to be adored. To be the absolute center for someone else.
~ Carol Shields
Love is not, anywhere, taken seriously. It's not respected. It's the one thing in the world everyone wants, but for some reason people are obliged to pretend that love is trifling and foolish.
~ Carol Shields
From Cherish Tomorrow ... "I want you," she said softly. His jaw became rigid with disapproval. "I'm too damned old for you." "You're perfect." She touched the hardness of one cheek with loving fingers. "You're too young for me!" She shrugged. "I'll get older."
~ Carole Mortimer
He just wanted to get his arms around you. He was like a thirsty man in a desert.
~ Carole Mortimer
You give me pleasure unspeakable, unimaginable. And I wasn't avoiding you,' he spoke into the softness of her hair. 'At least, not voluntarily. I was giving you the chance to end the physical relationship, to end the honeymoon if you wanted to.' He pulled back to look at her tear-wet face. 'You don't want to, do you?' he realised huskily. 'Never!' She buried her face against his chest.
~ Carole Mortimer
But I just can't do without you, I need you all the time. Darling .. .!' -Alex
~ Carole Mortimer
She wanted love, adventure, and wild, fierce emotions that would batter her, as storms battered the island. I am thirteen, Christina thought, I am ready. I want it all.
~ Caroline B. Cooney
I wish for Madrigal's life.
~ Caroline B. Cooney
Pretty dresses, desperate hearts.
~ Caroline B. Cooney
Fall in love with me, Gary! She thought. Please. Please sit here holding me and think there's nowhere on earth I'd rather be than here, and no girl I'd rather have in my lap than Beth Rose Chapman!
~ Caroline B. Cooney
They'll tell you they love you like stars in the West But along comes corn whiskey; they love it the best. Go
~ Caroline Kennedy
My body might not be ready for love,' she sighed, 'but my heart is.
~ Caroline Lawrence
As the Buddha taught, the cause of suffering is attachment; the end of attachment will mean the end of suffering.
~ Caroline Myss
Y sólo es elegido quien lo desea, habiendo escuchado la vida que le espera allí en la tierra, lo bueno y lo malo, sin ninguna sombra de duda.
~ Caroline Myss
She slapped at him, but he grabbed her arm and pulled her forward over the loose hay to hug her tightly. Her hands landed on his chest with a snap. She looked up, and before she even had time to shut her eyes, his lips were on hers. Warmth---that's what she felt at first. As the kiss deepened, it grew hotter, and when his tongue traced the outside of her mouth, it turned downright scorching.
~ Carolyn Brown
One kiss came close to sending the movie theater up in blazes. Sex would burn down the state.
~ Carolyn Brown
Don't suppose you'd want to stay long enough to scrub my back for me, would you? Lizzy might have had a wonderful experience when she rose up from the bathwater, but it damn sure hadn't set her free enough to do what Toby asked. She shook her head and smiled. This is not a real relationship, darlin'. I'd be willin' to turn it into a real one for a good woman to give me a bath. His eyes glittered.
~ Carolyn Brown
Oh. My. God. he murmured as it all ended in a crescendo complete with beautiful sparks and all the bells and whistles of fantastic makeup sex. Five full minutes later he propped up on a an elbow and kissed the tip of her nose. Can we fight again tomorrow? She smiled up at him. I was thinking of starting an argument right now.
~ Carolyn Brown
His heart found something that it doesn't want to live without, he whispered.
~ Carolyn Brown
I can't help it when I'm around you. You don't have any idea how beautiful you are or how you affect a man, do you, darlin'?
~ Carolyn Brown
Two women chasing him, ready and waiting for his call and the one that had buts at the end of every sentence was the one who turned him inside him out with a simple kiss.
~ Carolyn Brown