Quotes About Desire

Mothers' bodies are not their own. The happiest ones seem to have forgotten what it is like to want themselves back at all.

Do you have one where you're riding a horse or a camel? Or sitting on a rocket ship? Those are always wildly popular with men looking for sex. —SINGLE-MINDED

I linger too long in his embrace; the night is so warm, the rocking of the boat so lulling, I have to stop myself from swaying to the music. Daniel smells really good—a masculine cocktail of saltwater, citrus, and probably just full-on testosterone.

God, there's nothing sexier than a nice strong jawline and a movie-star-quality chin dimple. It's my own personal kryptonite. —SINGLE-MINDED

I rock in his arms under the stars and the blanket of night air, unwilling or unable to tear myself away.

This was the pattern of my life: to love men who didn't deserve me, and, knowing that, to yearn for their love anyway.

podes estar apaixonada e ao mesmo tempo incrivelmente só. Podes ter tudo o que sempre quiseste só para te dares conta que tudo o que querias estava errado. Podes ter um marido inteligente atraente e cheio de compaixão como o meu e mesmo assim não o ter na realidade. E algumas vezes podes olhar para a tua filha linda e preciosa e ficar genuinamente ciumenta de quanto ele a ama em vez de ti.

As Raimon and Desire listened, Aimeric sang of Carenza's beauty. He sang of the oaths he had given to his lord, the count Bertran, and of another oath, one that he had sworn to Countess Carenza in his heart. He would keep her at the forefront of his thoughts, he would cherish her forever. They would never satisfy their desire, never even kiss one another, but he would be faithful to her until he died.

For Desire, who is male and female, fair and dark, old and young, anything and everything you have ever wished for, or coveted, or needed, is irresistible. And so what would be the point, after all? Love is not a game to Desire, as it is to so many mortals, or if it is, it is a game with a foregone conclusion: Desire always wins. And Desire hates more than anything to be bored.

Some people aren't good at anything. Some people just really like donuts.

I think the hard thing for you Abbie is not going to be getting what you want in life but figuring out what that is. Once you know what you want - really truly- I know you'll get it.

Infatuation was weather - love was climate.

T.J. is addicted to ever new forms of comfort while oblivious to the need they might reveal;

perhaps it is true that, as Bertrand Russell once suggested, "to be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

is envy just the illusion that the problem of happiness can be solved?

following Christ wasn't about religion; it was an intimacy with his Creator that had him constantly hungering for more.

I was just trying to give you the teen-male perspective." "Which is?" "If it moves, screw it.

Everyone thinks that. That's the reason people cheat on their spouses, because this new relationship is just so exciting and new.

Lisa Jackson - Hot Blooded

can never have what you really want

Because that's the thing with getting what you want: all that yearning and dreaming and fantasizing leaves a great big hole that can only be filled with more yearning and dreaming and fantasizing.

But what do you do with an unattainable crush once it's yours to keep? What does it become? Should there perhaps be a word to describe it? Because that's the thing with getting what you want: all that yearning and dreaming and fantasizing leaves a great big hole that can only be filled with more yearning and dreaming and fantasizing.

And I remember my mother holding herself back from David, refusing to shine for fear of his desiring her.

She remembered the intensity of her desire to undress him, to be naked with him, the way she felt like she could say whatever she wanted and be fully understood and do whatever she wanted and be totally accepted. She remembered how easy it had all been, how open and bright, like being in a whitewashed room with all the windows wide open.