Quotes About Desire
When it comes to love, there are a million theories to explain it. But when it comes to love stories, things are simpler. A love story can never be about full posession. The happy marriage, the requited love, the desire that never dims-- these are lucky eventualities but they aren't love stories. Love stories depend on disappointment, on unequal births and feuding families, on matrimonial boredom and at least one cold heart. Love stories, nearly without exception, give love a bad name.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
BazillionQuotes.com
but the corset had the odd power of making her seem somehow more naked; it turned her into a forbidden, armored creature with a soft side inside he had to hunt for.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
BazillionQuotes.com
We just want to live. If anyone would let us.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
BazillionQuotes.com
itse tila, jota sana kuvaa, on erittäin hyvin tunnettu. Sillä nimittäin tarkoitetaan ihmissuhteen syntymisen ensimmäistä huumausta. Se aiheuttaa huimausta, hilpeyttä ja rintalastan kutinaa. Perifesenssi on rakastumisen hullu, romanttinen puoli.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
BazillionQuotes.com
When she smiled, her mouth showed too many teeth, but at night Trip Fontaine dreamed of being bitten by each one.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
BazillionQuotes.com
Throughout the act, headlights came on across the field, sweeping over them, lighting up the goal-post. Lux said, in the middle, I always screw things up. I always do and began to sob. Trip Fontaine told us a little more. We asked him if he put her in the cab but he said no. I walked home that night. I didn;t care how she got home. I just took off. Then: It's weird. I mean, I liked her I really liked her. I just got sick of her right then.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
BazillionQuotes.com
It's a kind of fugue state, anyway, early sex.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
BazillionQuotes.com
I just want to make scary movies," Jerome replied. "With occasional nudity.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
BazillionQuotes.com
A line from Barthes she remembered: Every lover is mad, we are told. But can we imagine a madman in love?
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
BazillionQuotes.com
Even though he tasted mysterious depths in Bonnie's mouth, he didn't search them out because he didn't want her to stop kissing him.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
BazillionQuotes.com
Looking back now, I can only remember a time when the world seemed to have a million eyes, silently opening wherever I went. Most of the time they were camouflaged, like the closed eyes of green lizards in green trees. But then they snapped open -- on the bus, in the pharmacy -- and I felt the intensity of all that looking, the desire and desperation.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
BazillionQuotes.com
Hoping for Lux to appear, the most naked person with clothes on he had ever seen.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
BazillionQuotes.com
A few of us grew brave enough to insert our legs between theirs and to press our agony against them.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
BazillionQuotes.com
It had to do with Leonard. With how she felt about him and how she couldn't tell anyone. With how much she liked him and how little she knew about him. With how desperately she wanted to see him and how hard it was to do so.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
BazillionQuotes.com
compatriots in the search for a little passion on earth.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
BazillionQuotes.com
It was still years before Desdemona, cutting cucumbers, would lean against the corner of the kitchen table and, without realizing it, would lean in a little harder, and after that would find herself taking up that position every day, the table corner snug between her legs.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
BazillionQuotes.com
From the beginning I was aware that there was something improper about the way I felt about Clementine Stark, something I shouldn't tell my mother, but I wouldn't have been able to articulate it. I didn't connect this feeling to sex. I didn't know sex existed
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
BazillionQuotes.com
Looking back now, I can only remember a time when the world seemed to have a million eyes, silently opening wherever I went. Most of the time they were camouflaged, like the closed eyes of green lizards in green trees. But then they snapped open—on the bus, in the pharmacy—and I felt the intensity of all that looking, the desire and the desperation.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
BazillionQuotes.com
We went outside with our hair wet in the hopes of catching flu ourselves so that we might share their delirium.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
BazillionQuotes.com
Cecila was weird, but we're not. And then: We just want to live. If anyone would let us.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
BazillionQuotes.com
Customers who want your product are better targets than customers who need your product. (Customers who need your product may not know it. They must be educated, persuaded. This takes time and money.
~ Unknown
BazillionQuotes.com
Customers who want your product are partially sold before they see you.)
~ Unknown
BazillionQuotes.com
There are two fundamental reasons that drive all purchase decisions: People buy either to feel good or to solve a problem.
~ Unknown
BazillionQuotes.com
identify the cravings for what they are—a desire to feel better right now.
~ Jeffrey M. Schwartz
BazillionQuotes.com
