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Quotes About Desire

This is what we don't admit about first kisses: One of the most gratifying things about them is that they are proof, actual proof, that the other person wants to kiss us.
~ David Levithan
It is a terrible thing to not feel missed.
~ David Levithan
When I am with you, there is nowhere else I'd rather be. And I am a person who always wants to be somewhere else.
~ David Levithan
I decided if I were ever to get into booze and woman, my line would be Excuse me, madam, but I would really love to bed and muss you...Are you perchance free this evening?
~ David Levithan
Chaste with a chance of inveterate lust.
~ David Levithan
In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals. I know this is hard for people to do, but I don't understand why it's so hard, when it's so obvious.
~ David Levithan
Niet krijgen wat je wilt kan je wreed maken.
~ David Levithan
This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it's just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.
~ David Levithan
boundbydad: thrust your fierce quavering manpole at me, stud grayscale: your dastardly appendage engorges me with hellfire boundbydad: my search party is creeping into your no man's land grayscale: baste me like a thanksgiving turkey!!!
~ David Levithan
I have been in the bodies of starvers and purgers, gluttons and addicts. They all think their actions make their lives more desirable. But the body always defeats them in the end.
~ David Levithan
I don't understand this at all. It's like protesting the fact that some people are red-haired. In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals. I know this is hard for people to do, but I don't understand why it's so hard, when it's so obvious.
~ David Levithan
He was the corner that her eyes always strayed toward
~ David Levithan
If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough...
~ David Levithan
Here's what breaks us: Even though we know better, we still want everything to be all right.
~ David Levithan
Because you also want to be on the other side of the window, living life instead of just thinking about it.
~ David Levithan
all i wanted was one fucking break, one idiotic good thing, and that was clearly too much to ask for, too much to want.
~ David Levithan
If she were running through the rye, if she were headed toward that abyss, I would grab hold with every ounce of my strength, with every scared beat of my heart, with every thought that could only be for her.
~ David Levithan
arduous, adj. Sometimes during sex, I wish there was a button on the small of your back that I could press and cause you to be done with it already.
~ David Levithan
And now it's some other guy's hands that are thumbing their way over Joey's face and down Dee Dee's chin and—oh, fucking hell—dropping down between the A and the M, going right for the V under the H&M-meets-S&M miniskirt.
~ David Levithan
Belief. That's what I want for Christmas. Look it up. Maybe there's more meaning there than I understand. Maybe you could explain it to me?
~ David Levithan
As a kid he wished for money or fame or toys or friends. More recent wishes were for so many other things, all of them synonymous with love or escape.
~ David Levithan
They should be going to sleep, but good company is the enemy of sleep. We remember this feeling so acutely - the desire to linger away the hours with someone else, talking or holding or even just watching a movie. In those moment, the clock seems arbitrary, since you are setting your understanding of time to another, more personal measure.
~ David Levithan
Under the table, I crossed my legs so hard it hurt. I was using all the strength it would take to run away, only to stay still.
~ David Levithan
I didn't mean to fall in love with you. But it happened. And I can't erase it. I can't ignore it. I have lived my whole life like this, and you're the thing that has made me wish it could stop.
~ David Levithan