Quotes About Desire

As we gossiped over grilled cheese, I rubbed my bare ankle against hers. Not to be provocative or possessive. Just because it felt good to have that spot on me touch that spot on her.

If there is 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.

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. We are desirable. We desire. Every kiss that matters contains a recognition at its core.

It was so much easier when I didn't want anything.

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 is how it is, this is how it will be.

i want to stay. i pray to stay. i close my eyes and wish to stay

We have fallen through the surface of want and are deep.

Codiciar. Existe una diferencia entre tú y yo: tú deseas lo que tienen los otros mientras que yo deseo las cosas que tenía, o las que creo que tendré en el futuro.

I have never wanted a lover. In order to have a lover, I must go back to the root of the word. For I have never wanted a lover, but I have always wanted to love, and to be loved.

The pink-haired boy is scared, so incredibly scared - only the thing you've most wished for can scare you in that way.

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.

We have fallen through the surface and are deep in the trenches of need

I would be a slave to achieve the maid whose sudden sight has thrilled my wounded eye.

the things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end.

There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you're in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself. If the moment doesn't pass, that's it -- you're done. And if the moment does pass, it never goes that far. It stands in the distance, ready for whenever you want it back. Sometimes it's even there when you thought you were searching for something else, like an escape route, or your lover's face.

Really, he could be anywhere now, because he wants to be nowhere.

i have to keep reminding myself that this is what i wanted - this is what everybody's supposed to want.

I wanted my spring awakening, even if it was coming a season late. I wanted summer lovin' that would happen so fast. I wanted to succeed at the business of love without really trying.

Most of the time when we think we're looking for death, we're really looking for love. That

I got confused between what I wanted to happen and what I should have known would happen. I've been doing that a lot lately. I know it's not helpful.

The heart knows nothing except its own mind.

If only you knew, Comedy Boy. If only I could tell you.

She was pretty, though. Like a flower. I missed that.

Some of us loved. Some of us couldn't. Some of us were loved. Some of us weren't. Some of us never understood what the fuss was about. Some of us wanted it so badly that we died trying. Some of us swear we died of heartbreak, not AIDS.