Quotes About Desire

No matter how much you consumed, you would not have your fill.

During the night he'd kicked off a sock; his toes were plump as early peas; it was all she could do not to taste his caramel skin. So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him,you swallowed him whole. Love was sustenance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream.

You came back fighting and furious at me. You told me you'd been looking for mermaids, and I interrupted you. [...] I said that next time, you had to take me with you. Was there a next time? Well, you tell me, you don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?

There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it.

She's not like anyone I've ever seen before. When I'm not with her, I want to be. And when she opens the book and I see her face, I can barely remember what I'm supposed to say, much less how to speak at all. I test the words on my tongue. I think I might be in love with her. But how can I really know, since the only love I've ever experienced was written for me?

Add love, and a person might do something crazy. Add love, and all the lines between right and wrong were bound to disappear.

Imagine if you were the positive pole of a magnet, and you were told that under no circumstances were you allowed to touch that negative pole that was sucking you in like a black hole. Or if you crawled out of the desert and found a woman standing with a pitcher of ice water, but she held it out of your reach. Imagine jumping off a building, and then being told not to fall. That's what it feels like to want a drink.

Do you know what it's like to give your whole self to a person, and your whole heart to boot, until you've got nothing left to give-and then realize that it still isn't what they need?

Sometimes, to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least. - Julia Romano

I hadn't been thinking, actually. I was just trying to get to a place where I'd be noticed.

Why is it that only in the very beginnings of a relationship are you aware of the heat coming from inside a person, of the number of inches you would have to move for your shoulders to brush as if it were an accident?

It feels like a punch. Tears fill my eyes, and I wonder how I could be upset over losing something I never had.

I'm sorry. I love you, but it's an enormous conflict of interest. Her head snaps up, You love me? What? MY face is suddenly on fire. I never said that. You did. I heard it. I said I'd love to. No, Sage says, a grin splitting her face. You didn't. Did I? I'm so tired I don't know what the hell is coming out of my mouth. Which probably means that I don't have the faculties to cover up what I really feel for Sage Singer, with an intensity that terrifies me.

If you don't sacrifice for what you want, what you want becomes the sacrifice

At the end of the day let their be no regrets, only a desire to do more tomorrow than you did today.

You don't ask for all that you get. You don't get all that you ask for. That doesn't mean you don't work the hardest for what you want the most.

Stealing isn't so easy, often it's hard work, otherwise we'd all be doing it.

You can have your wishes but you must work.

Our stomachs live in towns, " said Mma Potokwani, patting the front of her dress. 'That is where the work is. Our stomachs know that. But our hearts are usually somewhere else.

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

Whatever my individual desires were to be free I was not alone. There were others who felt the same way.

Always seek what you deserve & not what you desire your desire may be few but you deserve a lot.

If you can't handle her fire, let someone else enjoy the flames.

My life sucks when you're not in it.