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Quotes About Desire

Desire hits me like a kick to the stomach. It's like fighting, except what we're fighting for is to crawl inside each other's skin.
~ Holly Black
by you, i am forever undone" -cardan greenbriar
~ Holly Black
Envy. Fear. Anger. Jealousy. They're all spices." Locke laughed at my expression. "What is bread without salt? Desire can grow just as plain." "I don't understan—" He put a finger against my mouth. "Not every lover can appreciate such spices. But I think you can.
~ Holly Black
It occurs to me that maybe desire isn't something overindulging helps. Maybe it is not unlike mithridatism; maybe I took a killing dose when I should have been poisoning myself slowly, one kiss at a time.
~ Holly Black
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
Tell me that you hate me." "I hate you," I say, the words coming out like a caress. I say it again, over and over.
~ Holly Black
I'm the kind of vampire that you'd be, one who's new at this and basically out of control. I've already killed someone and I can't guarantee I'm not going to do it again. I'm the one who infected this girl.
~ Holly Black
This is the real Coldtown. I'm the real Coldtown. You still want in?
~ Holly Black
And yet, what she longed for was for him to slide into bed and put his hand on her shoulder, to tell her he knew she was awake. To say that he loved her desperately and wanted to confess all the things he'd kept from her, and all the reasons for them. It was a childish desire, a wish for the world to not be as it was, for people to act in ways they just didn't. It was the wish of a sucker, ready to be fleeced for everything she had.
~ Holly Black
After seeing what Balekin is like, I want Dain on the throne more than ever.
~ Holly Black
Revenge is sweet, but ice cream is sweeter
~ Holly Black
Maybe it isn't the worst thing to want to be loved, even if you're not.
~ Holly Black
mi vuoi veramente" gli dico, così vicina da sentire il calore del suo respiro. "e odi volerlo".
~ Holly Black
By you, I am forever undone -Cardan
~ Holly Black
I ran anyway. And clutched his fingers as though he could drag me into a world where other kinds of games were possible. Hope lit my heart.
~ Holly Black
I used to wish that Madoc never went looking for those girls, and now all I wish is that we could be together again as we once were.
~ Holly Black
I hate being vulnerable. I hate that i throw my head back, baring my throat. I hate the way i cling to him, the nails of one hand digging into his back, my thoughts splintering, and the single last thing in my head: that i like him better than I've ever liked anyone and that of all the things he's ever done to me, making me like him so much is by far the worst.
~ Holly Black
Let me have everything I ever wanted, everything I ever dreamed, and eternal misery along with it. Let me live on with an ice chard through my heart.
~ Holly Black
Let me have everything I ever wanted, everything I ever dreamed, and eternal misery along with it. Let me live on with an ice chard through my heart. -Jude Duarte
~ Holly Black
He sent me to kill you" I whisper against his ear. A shiver goes through his body, and his hand goes to my waist, but instead of pushing me away, he pulls me into the bed with him, rolling my body across him onto the heavily embroidered coverlets.
~ Holly Black
Cardan draws a sharp breath and then lets it out slowly. 'I'd prefer to live.
~ Holly Black
He reaches out and touches my hair, traces the hollow of my cheekbone.
~ Holly Black
Kiss me again," he says, drunk and foolish. "Kiss me until I am sick of it.
~ Holly Black
Mock me all you like. Whatever I imagined then, now it is I who would beg and grovel for a kind word from your lips." His eyes are black with desire. "By you, I am forever undone.
~ Holly Black