Quotes About Desire

Almost imperceptibly, he moved closer, the warmth of his body radiating outward, together with his own mesmerizing scent- clean and male and uniquely him. "What fragrance are you wearing?" he asked. "Nothing. I don't wear perfume, at least not often." He inched nearer still, his voice lowering to a murmur. "You're just naturally sweet then, are you? Exactly as I expected.

People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need.

I wanted to wear the mantle and the pearls. I wanted to know the man who painted her like that.

I could not think of anything but his fingers on my neck, his thumb on my lips.

She stood to lose far too much if she gave this little attraction any freedom to grow.

What are you not beating down doors to do? What are you not actively taking on but would if you could?

We want so much, When perhaps we live best In the spaces between loves, That unconscious roving, The heart its own rough animal. Unfettered.

When some people talk about money They speak as if it were a mysterious lover Who went out to buy milk and never Came back, and it makes me nostalgic For the years I lived on coffee and bread, Hungry all the time, walking to work on payday Like a woman journeying for water From a village without a well, then living One or two nights like everyone else On roast chicken and red wine.

Not the flame, but what it promised, Surrender. To be quenched of danger.

You lack freedom, so you fantasize about it.

I was angry all the time about the future I didn't want with people I didn't like. But I didn't know what I wanted - so what else was there to do?

The five poisons of desire, aggression, jealousy, pride, and ignorance are transformed, or transmuted, into their corresponding five wisdoms. Desire is transformed into discriminating wisdom, aggression into mirror-like wisdom, jealousy into all accomplishing wisdom, pride into wisdom of equanimity, and ignorance into wisdom of dharmadhatu, or reality.

I know what it feels like to miss everything about him--the way he smells, the way his mouth curls up when he laughs, his voice.

After all he had accomplished, and considering how much he had learned and how far he had come, it is a curious fact—indeed, a remarkable one—that what Nicholas wanted now, more than anything, was to get started.

Nicholas lay with his hands on his chest, thinking how hollow it felt, like an empty gourd. He had never missed having a family, though he had wanted one all his life.

We all desire to be understood, but no one enjoys being obvious.

I also try to weigh my motives. Am I doing what I'm doing because it's what God desires, or because I'm afraid people will be disappointed if I don't?

How does one become a butterfly? You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.

I knew then that I wanted to go home, but I had no home to go to--and that is what adventures are all about.

Who needs men when they can have chocolate? Who needs sex when they can have chocolate, come to that

You realize I'm probably not going to be able to walk tomorrow," she grumbled. Nathan shook his head, but she didn't miss the spark of humor in his gaze before he lowered it briefly. "That's what you get for being difficult to a Dom with a big dick.

Morality is the infusion of chocolate into the veins of all men

The birds can fly An' why can't I?

But I will confess that I began as an astronomer—a liking for bright flashes, vast distances, unreachable things, a hand stretched always toward the furthest limit— and that my longing for you has not taken me very far from that original desire to inscribe a comet's orbit around the walls of our city, to gently stroke the surface of the stars.