Quotes About Desire

He wanted to run to her, wrap her in his arms. Protect her. But it was Jem's place to do those things, not his. Not his." -Will Herondale

He always lived in his head. He never cared about how things were, only how they would be, someday, when he had everything he wanted. When we had everything we wanted.

If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me

But all these were things he could not want, because they were things he could not have, and wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness.

I would have given it up--all of it up--to be married to you for a day. A day that would never have come. You are a reminder--a reminder of everything I am losting. The Life I will not have.

My will and my desire were turned by love, the love that moves the sun and the other stars.

What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate?" - Will Herondale

You know when most girls say they want a big rock, they dont mean, you know, literally a big rock ." -Clary to Jace, pg.313-

But God knows, I don't want anyone but you. I don't even want to want anyone but you.

Why not? Do you like him?" Magnus's eyes gleamed. "He seems to like you. I saw him going for your hand out there like a squirrel diving for a peanut.

I was even a little glad that if it wasn't going to be me she wanted, it was going to be someone who really deserved her.

You kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. He had wondered once why love was always phrased in terms of burning. The conflagration in his own veins, now, gave the answer.

We have talked so much of travel," James said. "I wanted to give you the world.

If you knew how to cook, maybe I would eat.

Don't be with him, don't want him, don't go with him. Be with me. Want me. Stay with me. I don't know how to be without you.

He hadn't stopped wanting love. He had simply, somehow, stopped looking.

wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness

Jace is in love with the idea of dying," said Isabelle.

Mothers, lock up your daughters, then lock up your maidservants, then lock up yourselves. Lord Montgomery is on the prowl." … "My lord," she said, her eyes shining. "I fear I can no longer withstand your manly charms and virile ways. Please do with me as you will." Simon wasn't sure what Lord Montgomery would do, but he knew what he wanted to do.

Oh, I can never get enough," he said. "Which, incidentally, is what your sister said to me when-" The carriage door flew open. A hand shot out, grabbed Will by the back of the shirt, and hauled him inside.

This is the deepest wish of my heart?" "Sure," Magnus said. "Your father, proud of you. You, the hero of the hour. Me, loving you. Everyone approving of you." Alec looked over at Jace. "Okay, what about the Jace thing?" Magnus shrugged. "I don't know. Thet part's just weird.

Camille leaned forward. When she did, the neckline of her black silk blouse gaped open. If Simon had still been human, he would have blushed. "Will you let me see it?" Simon could actually feel his eyes pop out. "See what?

Anything?" She laughed. "Like what kind of anything did you want?" "Well, when I was five, I wanted to take a bath in spaghetti." -Clary & Jace, pg.310-

As if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. Since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely.