Quotes About Desire

Do you trust me?" Tam said it almost too softly to be heard. I hesitated, sighed, then reached down and took his hand. Tam's fingers wrapped warm and strong around mine. The magic sparked between us, though this time it was warm and tingling, not violent and lustful. "Though you're the last thing I need," I muttered. I heard the smile in his voice. "But I'm the first thing you want.

It's been my experience that mankind—and I use that to encompass all the races—is seldom satisfied with what they have. Most people's striving is harmless, beneficial even. But there are those who strive for subjugation, having control over others' lives, lives held in the palm of their hand.

He moved to kiss my forehead, my eyes, my cheeks, my lips for several long, searching moments. Right then, I wished we could stay together. Forever.

Money. Man is always motivated by money, my dad said to me once. It can work for us, or it can enslave us. Even when we have much, we feel like we need more. No matter how much we have.

Saints, woman, what you do to me... Zara, you're turning me inside-out.

And sometimes, sometimes, wanting things, wishing for, working for them, is a good thing. Otherwise, we become nothing but spoiled boys and girls frustrated that we don't get every new toy we see.

If I were a lucky girl I would have won the lottery or something. Maybe I had, I thought, staring dreamily at Marcello.

When you love someone, it doesn't really matter if they love you back or not. Having love in your heart for someone is its own reward. or punishment, depending on the circumstances.

I loved him so much. It didn't change all the reasons we couldn't be together, but it kept me returning to his body, kept my skin seeking his skin over and over again in the sad dance we did.

In the end, I cared about him so much that I just thought he deserved someone who loved him more than I did.

Passion: "Your profile ought to be pressed upon a coin." Mark: "Your body ought to be pressed upon mine.

However, I am accustomed to not having what I want.

She didn't call him Prince or Royal Highness. She called him Rodrigo. And while she very clearly wanted him, she wanted him only for what he brought to her as a man. It felt strange to simply be a man.

Happiness is not in getting what you want, but in learning to want what you get. Don't waste your time crying over what you're not given. When you have tears in your eyes, you can't see all the beautiful things around you.

Life never is just about what you want. Seldom ever.

The man who buys what he does not need will often need what he cannot buy.'

To love and be loved is the very thing our souls scream for from birth and every moment after, the urge to need and be needed as natural as breathing, as life-giving as breath.

I'm hungry for water and sky and days that aren't divided by the tiny squares in an appointment book.

the secret to a good life isn't in getting what you want; it's in learning to want what you get. I'm learning to want what I've got and not to think about the rest so much.

The sweetness of his longing dives to a tender, bruised place in me.

The screens sway inward as the attic fan rattles overhead, pulling at wet air that has no desire to be moved.

and he doesn't want to come back. Not even for me. Not even for Fern. We're not enough.

Mother told me," he sighs. "She'd been over to Drayden Hill to get a baby fix, since your sister and Courtney and the boys are visiting. Now she's on the grandkid kick again." Elliot is understandably frustrated. "She reminded me that I'm thirty-one already, and she's fifty-seven, and she doesn't want to be an old grandmother.

We all make trade-offs to get what we want. But no matter what you stand to gain, when the thing you're asked to trade is yourself, the price is too high.