Quotes About Desire

She was a dreamer and a schemer & one didnt dream and scheme without hope.

A dress is a weapon. It must dazzle his eye, raise his temperature . . . and empty his purse.

Men don't know what they want. Women must show them.

I spent hours yesterday talking of little but medical symptoms and insane asylums. And you listened as though it were poetry and all but swooned at my feet. It is too bad I don't have any medical treatises about. I'm sure I need read a paragraph or two, and you will become ravenous with lust and begin tearing my clothes off. (Dorian from "The Mad Earl's Bride")

He started to draw away but she wasn't ready. She held on, and after a heartbeat he slid his hands to her waist and pulled her closer. His kiss grew more fiercely determined, as though he would wipe every recollection of anything remotely resembling kisses from her mind and imprint his, permanently, upon it. And upon her body, where the alien feelings simmered into excitement and happiness and a yearning for more. Strange

Even now the wicked spirit lurked there, a glint of mischief in the darkness of heat and desire. It made her smile, and she brought her smile to his mouth and gave it to him. "Miss you," she whispered. "So much.

She set her hand against his chest, to push him away. He laid his hand over hers, and held hers there, over his pounding heart.

Ne bi se trebao služiti muÅ¡kim lukavstvima«, rekla je, stegnuta grla. »Ã… to sam to tako neoprostivo u?inila?« Natjerala si me da te želim, rekao joj je na svojem materinjem jeziku. U?inila si me klonulim duhom, usamljenim. Natjerala si me da ?eznem za onim za Å¡to sam se zakleo da nikad ne?u trebati, nikad to iskati

Znala sam da me želiš. To je jedino oko ?ega nikad nisam dvojila. Ali dovu?i te u svoju postelju — tebe, najve?eg kurvara u krš?anskom svijetu — zaboga, bilo je to gore nego onda kad sam Bertiea morala odvu?i zubaru. I

I love her,' he said. 'I've loved her since we were children. But you-' 'It's my fault, is it?' she said. 'I'm the demon destroying your happiness? Only look at yourself and listen to yourself. Like every other man, you want what you can't have. Like every other man, you'll stay interested - even obsessed - until you get it. You came here this evening because you can't think straight - because it drives you mad not to have something you want.

It wasn't the time and place. He oughtn't to rush his fences. But she'd waved her arms, and that made her womanly parts jiggle and he could only keep one idea in his head at a time, and in any case, oughts never went down smoothly with him. He was who he was, and that wasn't a good boy. And so down he went, and crushed her sulky little mouth under his.

Alistair did his best to soothe her while he imagined himself leaping across the table, scooping Miss Oldridge out of her chair, and tossing her out of the nearest window.

Što te onda zadržava ovdje? upitao je sebe. Koja te je mo?na sila ovamo dovukla, da glupavo zuriš poput mjese?inom o?aranog šteneta u ku?u samo zato jer je ona unutra? I koji su te to lanci držali ovdje, u iš?ekivanju da je samo na?as vidiš? Dodir. Poljubac. To je odvratno, rekao je sebi. I bilo je, ali bilo je istina, i on je to mrzio i mrzio je nju jer je to u?inila istinom.

Pomislila je da razumije kakva je to želja bila: privla?nost, mo?no magnetsko strujanje izme?u muškarca i žene, koje ih privla?i bliže jedno drugome. Mislila je da razumije požudu: glad, žudnju. No?u bi bila grozni?ava, snivaju?i o njemu, i nemirna i živ?ana danju, razmišljaju?i o njemu. Nazvala je to životinjskom privla?noš?u, primitivnom, ludom.

There was the deep blue sea of her eyes, and there was he, wanting to drown.

Gubim je, pomislio je i ruka mu je nagonski krenula da je dosegne i povu?e je natrag. Ali umjesto toga je posegnuo za loncem za kavu. Napunio je sebi šalicu i bespomo?no zurio u tamnu teku?inu i u njoj vidio svoju crnu budu?nost jer joj nije bio u stanju dati ono što je željela.

Coward" he said softly. She stopped and turned and marched back to him. She dropped her reticule, grasped his neckcloth, cupped his face, dragged his mouth to hers, and kissed him.

I'd love to travel to the Holy Land.

To a kid who asked for a second cookie: "You already have one cookie you're eating. Why do you need another?" "I want to be ready for when this one is gone.

We have to figure this out, Jackson, so leash the lust." His chin went up as he stared down at her. "Woman, you ask the impossible." "Do it anyway!

We can't have change without loss, which is why so often people say they want change but nonetheless stay exactly the same.

Almost is always the hardest, isn't it?" she said one afternoon. "Almost getting something. Almost having a baby. Almost getting a clean scan. Almost not having cancer anymore." I thought about how many people avoid trying for things they really want in life because it's more painful to get close to the goal but not achieve it than not to have taken the chance in the first place.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. —James Baldwin

Follow your envy — it shows you what you want.