Quotes About Desire

love doesn't follow the rules... nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable.

I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder; the knowledge that, with just a single taste of him, I was addicted.

Everyone deserves a happy ending.

It doesn't matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it's there.

well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

It felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen that, how can you go back where you came from?

She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.

Families were never what you wanted them to be. We all wanted what we couldn't have: the perfect child, the doting husband, the mother who wouldn't let go. We live in our grown-up dollhouses completely unaware that, at any moment, a hand might come in and change around everything we'd become accustomed to.

You can miss a person you've never known.

Love is the most dangerous craving of all, if you ask me. It turns us into people we aren't. It makes us feel like hell, and makes us walk on water. It ruins us for anything else.

I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you.

This must be what an addict feels like, I think, trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward the binding, and finally, with a sigh of regret, I just grab the book and open it, hungrily reading the story.

When you want something bad, you'll tell yourself a thousand lies.

No matter who you are, there is some part of you that always wishes you were someone else.

when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.

There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.

i don't need you. i never needed you. well, i fucking needed you!

Busy is just a euphemism for being so focused on what you don't have that you never notice what you do. It's a defense mechanism. Because if you stop hustling—if you pause—you start wondering why you ever thought you wanted all those things.

A wish is just words. Belief is the catalyst. It's what sets that wish into motion.

When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation. Those three words were what everyone used; simple syllables couldn't contain something as rare as what I felt for Sean. I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder; the knowledge that, with just a single taste of him, I was addicted.

I only just found you, I can't lose you now

Envy comes from wanting something that isn't yours, but grief comes from losing something you've already had.

I have loved before, but it didn't feel like this. I have kissed before, but it didn't burn me alive. Maybe it lasts a minute, and maybe it's an hour. All I know is that kiss, and how soft her skin is when it brushes against mine, and that, even if I did not know it until now, I have been waiting for this person forever.

But what if your obsession has nothing to do with drugs or thrills or money? What if what you want most in the world is to recapture the way life was a week, a month, a year ago-and you are willing to do whatever it takes?