Quotes About Desire

There will be no redemption because the men who run this place do not want redemption. They want to be as near to hell as they can.

The mere fact of Vegas, its necessity, was an indictment of our normal lives. If we needed this place--to transform into a high roller or a sexy swinger, to be someone else, a winner for once--then certainly the world beyond the desert was a small and mealy place indeed.

Money was new and unpredictable and liked to go where it pleased. Some

the full moon, the white beacon that so often agitated the slave with a mind to run.

to the empty space usually reserved for Valentine.

Verkligheten var en föränderlig skyltning i ett butiksfönster, manipulerad av händer när man inte såg, lockande och ständigt utom räckhåll.

Every kid had heard of Fun Town, been there or envied someone who had. In the third cut on side A, Dr. King spoke of how his daughter longed to visit the amusement park on Stewart Avenue in Atlanta. Yolanda begged her parents whenever

Money was new and unpredictable and liked to go where it pleased.

On barstools they ogled the bachelorettes in the club and discussed their chances, recalling near-conquests from previous visits. In the buffet lines they foraged from the heat lamps and steam trays, and impaled and then swirled wasabi around tiny ceramic saucers, tinting soy sauce.

Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.

He said to me once that most of the time people use the word love as just another way to show off they're hungry. The way he said it went something like: Glorify their appetites.

It's hardly wisdom, but the older I get the more I believe that our lives are built not out of time, but light. The problem is that the images that so often return to me are seldom those I want.

A single man, he said he loved women but preferred engines.

It was as if they wanted to take their older bodies and put their younger hearts inside.

Freedom was a word that everyone mentioned but none of us knew.

We are being bought off by our affair with the contemporary drug of choice: ease.

We could not have found peace unless the desire for it was already here.

Once we had filled each other with desire, not remembrance.

In the end you should probably know your characters as well as you know yourself. Not only what they had for breakfast this morning, but what they wanted to have for breakfast.

When I was seventeen I had a body that Adam woulda dropped Eve for. Hot-potato time. It was prime, no lie. Nothing in the wrong place. I had legs a hundred miles long and a booty to die for. Adam woulda said to Eve, Eve, I'm leaving you, honey, and Jesus himself woulda been in the background saying, Adam, you're one lucky motherfucker.

although i know that a wall to happiness is expecting too much happiness

Pity is such a shabby thing. I can torment myself with wanting to feel pity, and yet I don't succeed.

One reason these and other average guys vie for the attention of paid hot girls is their skewed view of average women. "So-called normal girls are boring," said one john, "but I'll sport fuck them if only for the count." On

La vida tiene una interesante forma de cambiar tus planes y de cambiar incluso aquello que crees que quieres.