Quotes About Desire
So you'll teach me?" Val asked. Ravus nodded agin. "I will make you as terrible as you desire." "I don't want to be - ," she started, but he held up his hand. "I know you're very brave," he said. "Or stupid." " And stupid. Brave and Stupid." Ravus smiled, but then his smile sagged. "But nothing can stop you from being terrible once you've learned how.
~ Holly Black
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There is a pleasure in being with them," he says. "Taking what we wish, indulging in every terrible thought. There's safety in being awful.
~ Holly Black
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I want to have some reaction. I want to tremble or feel nauseated. I want to be the person who begins to weep. I want to be anyone but the person I am, who looks around to be sure no one saw, who wipes off my knife in the dirt, wipes off my hand on his clothes, and gets out of there before the guards come.
~ Holly Black
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One night you will ask me for something I cannot give.
~ Holly Black
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It hurts to think of her, but I can't stop. It ought to hurt. After all, hell is supposed to be hot.
~ Holly Black
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Sometimes I felt like I was waiting for my life to begin and more than anything, in that moment, I wanted to force some kind of beginning. I wanted things to be different than usual. I wanted to bend reality.
~ Holly Black
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I wanted to be in love like in the storybooks and songs and ballads. Love that hits you like a lightning bolt. And I'm sorry, because yeah, I get that you think I'm ridiculous. I get that you think I'm hilarious. I know, I get that you're mocking me. I get how stupid I am, but at least I know.
~ Holly Black
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I concentrate on what I am going to say to Vivi, instead of thinking of Cardan. I do not want to consider what happened between us. I do not want to think about the way his muscles moved or how his skin felt or the soft gasping sounds he made or the slide of his mouth against mine. I definitely don't want to think about how hard I had to bite my own lip to keep quiet. Or how obvious it was that I'd never done any of the things we did, no less the things we didn't do.
~ Holly Black
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I try not to be too conscious of his long fingers tracing over the paper, of the sick thrill I get when he looks at me.
~ Holly Black
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It occurs to me that if I kill him, I can finally stop thinking about him. If I kill him, I won't have to feel like this anymore.
~ Holly Black
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She was the epic crush of my childhood. She was the tragedy that made me look inside myself and see my corrupt heart. She was my sin and my salvation, come back from the grave to change me forever. Again. Back then, when she sat on my bed and told me she loved me, I wanted her as much as I have ever wanted anything.
~ Holly Black
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With him, I am forever a night-blooming flower, attracted and repelled by the heat of the sun.
~ Holly Black
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I did it to get what I want. Maybe I should regret that, but I can't. Sometimes you do the bad thing and hope for the good result.
~ Holly Black
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I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them.
~ Holly Black
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It's magic I long for, magic I miss. Maybe I even miss being afraid. I feel as though I am dreaming away my days, restless, never fully awake.
~ Holly Black
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That's the problem with temptation. It's so damn tempting.
~ Holly Black
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I still feel the warm pressure of his fingers against my skin. Something is really wrong with me, to want what I hate, to want someone who despises me, even if he wants me, too. My only comfort is that he doesn't know what I feel.
~ Holly Black
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I miss him, and the pain of it is a yawning chasm, one into which I yearn to let myself fall.
~ Holly Black
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Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.
~ Holly Black
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A man may daydream of how he would spend a million dollars, but playing the same game with a billion dollars sours the fantasy. There are too many possibilities. The house he once wished for with all his heart is suddenly too small. The travel, too cheap. He wanted to visit an island. Now he contemplates buying one.
~ Holly Black
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I want to win. I do not yearn to be their equal. In my heart, I yearn to best them.
~ Holly Black
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I always supposed I would be delicious
~ Holly Black
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She tastes like every dark thought I've ever had.
~ Holly Black
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He's the kind of beautiful that makes people want to smash things.
~ Holly Black
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