Quotes About Desire

Happy endings are a luxury of fiction.

Achati chuckled. "You may be surprised. Some might come in the hopes of being snatched away to a secret place ruled by exotic women.

Friendship? What friendship? I lust after him and he rightly ignores it!

Sometimes you can't be who you want

The young, he says, confuse desire with love, and they end up hurting everyone around them.

obsession with beauty (longing for beauty / fear of aging).

Our hopes are our gods. Gods create struggles similar to our battles with demons, except they are attempts to get something rather than get away from something. Gods are involved with struggles of desire and longing rather than aversion. It is important to distinguish between an inspiration, which triggers positive energy and optimism without great attachment or tension involved, and a god, which is connected to longing for something, or being obsessed with a certain outcome.

the devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for ...

If God invented anything better than drunk sex with a hot girl, he kept it to himself.

Callum's pull is irresistible now. He needs him. Adam is falling desperately, physically, finally in love, and suddenly it feels like a very long way to fall. Please catch me, he thinks. Please be there when I land.

I WON'T get upset!" Cliff shouted. "I want! to SEE! MOMMY KILL GRANDMA!

You're right," she said. "All my life I have desperately wanted an ugly necklace." "Hey," Chameleon protested, as Queen Scarlet gave a shout of laughter.

Nope," Clay said. "We're free now. I'm only going to eat what I want to eat from now on." As long as it's slow enough for me to catch it, he thought ruefully.

All my life I have desperately wanted an ugly necklace.

He felt an almost unbearable longing to press himself against her scales and fall asleep with her star-speckled wings over his.

We can't be anything. We can never, never be what I dream of us being.

She didn't raise us to care about her," Tsunami argued. "Kestrel was just keeping us alive, and if that's what she wants, the best thing we can do is run away right now." "I'd like to be something more than alive," Clay said fiercely. "I'd like to be the kind of dragon she doesn't think I am — the kind they write prophecies about. That dragon would rescue her no matter how awful she is.

Tangerines were not quite the epic change Blue wanted to see in the world.

Who would say no to their secret dream come true? Why would I ever say no? Say yes to the magic. Say yes to the bright future. Say yes. Qibli looked up into Darkstalker's eyes and said, "No.

His intense joy — so much to read! Surely everything he could wish for had to be in here, all the answers to all his questions — warred with deep, paralyzing anxiety. How would he ever learn all this?

The light, the light, the light wanted him out, wanted to run its talons over his wings, drip through his scales, fill him with silver power. He wanted that power, too, all of it, all of it.

Clay cared about his real brothers and sisters, too, although he'd only just met them. He felt instinctively like they were extensions of his own claws and wings. This was the family he'd always wanted.

Scarlet's gladiator fetish.

Think about cows think about cows think about delicious fat cows. . . .