Quotes About Desire

I would be more," I said. "I would be all.

I wanted to seize her by the shoulders. Whatever you do, I wanted to say, do not be too happy. It will bring down fire on your head.

I would untie him if I could. If he would let me.

Si uno te acechara, debes darle algo que desee más que a ti»,

was like any dull ass who has ever loved someone who loved another. I thought: if only she were gone, it would change everything.

Qué era lo que más quería? - Su amante, Patroclo. No me apreciaba mucho, pero también es cierto que los buenos guerreros nunca me aprecian. Aquiles enloqueció tras su muerte; o estuvo a punto de enloquecer.

Podía transformar a un pez en pájaro, pelear con mi leona y luego echarme sobre su vientre con la melena suelta. Quería esuchar sus gritos y resuellos. ¡Me ha mirado! ¡Me voy a convertir en rana!

I was looking for something, I realized, though I could not say what.

The fame she had described was what all mortals yearn for. It is their only hope of immortality

So you see, in my way, I was eager for what came.

A few of these, so few I can count them on my fingers, I let go. They did not see me as their dinner. They were pious men, honestly lost, and I would feed them and if there was a handsome one among them I might take him to my bed. It was not desire, not even its barest scrapings. It was a sort of rage, a knife I used upon myself. I did it to prove my skin was still my own.

Go, he waits for you.

moment he woke and knew me. Our limbs slid against one another, on paths that we had traced so many times before, yet

I feel like I would eat the world raw.

I lean forward and our lips land clumsily on each other. They are like the fat bodies of bees, soft and round and giddy with pollen. I can taste his mouth — hot and sweet with honey from dessert. My stomach trembles, and a warm drop of pleasure spreads beneath my skin. More .

Heracles would kill his wife again for a chance to come along.

his famed and well-worn loins.

His eyes were unwavering, green flecked with gold. A surety rose in me, lodged in my throat. I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me. If I had had words to speak such a thing, I would have. But there were none that seemed big enough for it, to hold that swelling truth.

Bring him back to me,

Briseis," I said. "If I ever wished to take a wife, it would be you." "But you do not wish to take a wife." "No," I said, as gently as I could.

La envidiosa muerte se bebería su sangre y sería joven de nuevo.

Transcurrieron las horas. A la luz de la luna, apenas podía distinguir el semblante perfecto de Aquiles al otro lado de la habitación. Tenía los labios entreabiertos y un brazo puesto con descuido encima de la cabeza. Dormido bajo aquella luminosidad tan tenue parecía diferente: hermoso pero frío. Me descubrí deseando que despertara para de ese modo poder contemplar cómo revivía.

What I desire will come to pass. There is no mitigation." That voice again, like shearing metal. I had stood in the presence of great gods before: my father and grandfather, Hermes, Apollo. Yet her gaze pierced me as theirs had not. Odysseus had said once she was like a blade honed to a hair's fineness, so delicate you would not even know you had been cut, while beat by beat your blood was emptying on the floor.

did not have a thousand wiles, and I was no fixed star, yet for the first time I felt something in that space. A hope, a living breath, that might yet grow between.