Quotes About Desire

She looked at him, and his eyes locked with hers, and she could not breathe for the need she saw there. A thousand thoughts flashed through his eyes, and he kept them all to himself. She had never known such a self-contained man, so few words and now none when she desperately needed them from him.

'Cause it's witchcraft,Wicked witchcraft.And although I know it's strictly taboo,When you arouse the need in me,My heart says, "Yes, indeed" in me,"Proceed with what you're leadin' me to!"

Please!" I stop my pacing, glare at him. "Is that all you can think about at a time like this?" Gabriel rolls up on one elbow and smiles at me. "I'm a guy. It's what I think about all the time.

He was so much in love with me that I could have asked him for the moon and stars, and he would have gathered them for me.

I'm not going to feel guilty for wanting the things that everyone wants.

there are people all over the world who carry the mermaid inside them, that otherworldly beauty and longing and desire that made her reach for heaven when she lived in the darkness of the sea.

It's a never ending dream for everyone it seems, to find again what was once precious and has been lost.

I'm here!" I said..."I'm read to go home!" As if they couldn't see me. As if I couldn't remember what it had been like, fluttering next to someone's ear and whispering into it. How the whole earth was like a musical instrument that we could play effortlessly. ...I could not fly. My sister was not there. My heart was broken.

What you can't afford to lose, you can't afford to buy

The one thing he had learned living with Dana was that enough was never enough. There was always another thing, one more toy, one more adventure, and they were always just out of reach until they weren't. And then there would be the next thing.

How horribly easy it is, he thinks now, breathing hard, watching the light retreat down the lane, to go from good to bad, from the dream to the memory, from what we want to all we've ever had.

You could see that it only wanted some attention to be beautiful again.

Trying relentlessly to make you love me, but I don't want the love—I quite prefer the quest for it. The challenge. I am always disappointed with someone who loves me—how perfect can he be if he can't see through me?

Sometimes I feel like I've got my nose pressed up against the window of a bakery, only I'm the bread.

I wish I could go away somewhere but the only problem with that is that I'd have to go, too.

Immediate gratification takes too long.

The thing about having it all is, it should include having the ability to have it all. Maybe there are some people who know how to have it all. They're probably off in a group somewhere, laughing at those of us who have it all but don't know how to.

I want someone to love and treasure and overwhelm.

I said, "Instant gratification takes too long." The glib martyr.

one of those unfortunate women who did not find nice men interesting. She found undesirables desirable. She sought out unpleasant boyfriends, then complained about them as though the government had allocated them to her.

I thought you might supply some tenderness I lacked But out of all the things I offered you took my breath away and now I want it back

If wishes were horses mine would be glue -

My want can only do so much in terms of changing what's actually occuring with other people, and I'd like to keep it that way. I don't want to feel that if I had wanted something more, or had said one other thing, or had worn a different dress, or had been more mysterious, or more open, then I would get something or someone I wouldn't get otherwise.

Iwish you would love me more so that I could love you less. —Not Me