Quotes About Desire

He made you look desirable! And let's face it, you can use all the help you can get in that department. You were about as romantic as dirt until he said he wanted you. Now they all do. You're all they're talking about.

Katniss! Katniss! I can hear my name called from all sides. Everyone wants my kisses.

Maybe . . . because for the first time . . . there was a chance I could keep him,

He said, See that little girl? I wanted to marry her mother, but she ran off with a coal miner." -Peeta Mellark in The Hunger Games

I feel that thing again. The thing I only felt once before. In the cave last year, when I was trying to get Haymitch to send us food. I kissed Peeta about a thousand times during those Games and after. But there was only one kiss that made me feel something stir deep inside. Only one that made me want more. Instead of satisfying me, the kisses have the opposite effect, of making my need greater. I thought I was something of an expert on hunger, but this is an entirely new kind.

She have another fellow?" asks Caesar. I don't know, but a lot of boys like her," says Peeta. So, here's what you do. You win, you go home. She can't turn you down then, eh?" says Caesar encouragingly. I don't think it's going to work out. Winning...won't help in my case," says Peeta. Why ever not?" says Caesar, mystified.

Come on," I say in exasperation, extricating myself from his grasp but not before he gets in another kiss.

Never was I supposed to hear the words 'He says he wants to see you.' But now that I have, there's no way to refuse.

Good. I'm starving.

Do I really want him dead? What I want . . . what I want is to have him back. But I'll never get him back now. Even

Per quanto ti faccia star male, dovrai uccidere qualcuno, perché nell'arena hai un solo desiderio, che costa molto caro.» «Ti costa la vita» conclude Caesar. «Oh, no, ti costa molto più della vita. Assassinare persone innocenti?» dice Peeta. «Ti costa tutto ciò che sei.»

Instead of satisfying me, the kisses have the opposite effect, of making my need greater. I thought I was something of an expert on hunger, but this is an entirely new kind.

felt once before. In the cave last year, when I was trying to get Haymitch to send us food. I kissed Peeta about a thousand times during those Games and after. But there was only one kiss that made me feel something stir deep inside. Only one that made me want more.

where his lips just touch my neck, slowly spreading

The ones I loved fly as birds in the open sky above me. Soaring, weaving, calling to me to join them. I want so badly to folow them, but the seawater saturates my wings, making it impossible to lift them.

Besides, if he wants kids, Gale won't have any trouble finding a wife. He's good-looking, he's strong enough to handle the

Pero ¿destruirlo? No. (...)No destruyes lo que quieres adquirir en el futuro.

It's on the third night, during our game, that I answer the question eating away at me. Crazy Cat becomes a metaphor for my situation. I am Buttercup. Peeta, the thing I want so badly to secure, is the light.

Vull morir essent jo mateix. […] No vull que em canviïn.

I fumble. I'm not as smooth with words as Peeta. And while I was talking, the idea of actually losing Peeta hit me again and I realized how much I don't want him to die. And it's not about the sponsors. And it's not about what will happen back home. And it's not just that I don't want to be alone. It's him. I do not want to lose the boy with the bread.

That explains it, then. Finnick's parade of lovers in the Capitol.

M'agradaria poder congelar aquest moment, just ara, aquí, i viure'l per sempre.

What I want . . . what I want is to have him back.

Si tu mors i jo visc, a mi no m'espera cap mena de vida […]. Tu ets tota la meva vida. Mai més no tornaria a ser feliç.