Quotes About Desire

WAITRESS 1 Actually, the last thing I want is to be alone, but . . . the other last thing is to be with someone.

this was a thing you keep up on in high school, girls you secretly like but can't get at 'cause they're dating somebody, maybe a friend, and so you file 'em away and hope the guy joins the army and gets sent to laos or something…

U.S. policy is too often shaped by the desire to tamp down that violence as fast as possible, rather than fostering the kind of deep-seated, long-term changes that would kill its roots.

What the advertiser needs to know is not what is right about the product but what is wrong about the buyer.

If you can get your customers to say, "I want it," it's not difficult to make a Benefit by replying, "We can give it to you.

without dissatisfaction, there's no basis for a sale.

One of the less appealing attributes of the American experience is the desire to shut the door on anyone coming in behind you.

I'd love to take some reindeer cherry," he said in a low growl.

Yeah, but satisfaction brought him back.

You never hurt me any more than I wanted to be hurt," Vann said.

Attraction is not an option.

There is a downside to casual sex: Sometimes it stops being casual. People develop a desire for something more. And when one person's expectations don't match the other person's, then whoever holds the highest expectations suffers. There is no such thing as cheap sex. It always comes with a price.

I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream

Men she thought, could make a clean break with a woman, could leave in the way Parveen's husband had. Or could even be left, like George and determine to make a life another way. It was women who longed to retain ties and connections, to mix things up in complicated ways.

Love was supposed to be like that, wasn't it? A sort of joyful, barely contained madness…

The trouble with Clare was, not only that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too, but that she wanted to nibble at the cakes of other folk as well.

But there was, she knew, something else. Happiness, she supposed. Whatever that might be. What, exactly, she wondered, was happiness. Very positively she wanted it.

Well, what of it? If sex isn't a joke, what is it

Incited. That was it, the guidingprinciple of her life in Copenhagen. She was incited to make an impression, a voluptous impression. She was incited to inflame attention and admiration. She was dressed for it, subtly schooled for it. And after a little while she gave herself up wholly to the fascinating business of being seen, gaped at, desired.

en aquella semana me mordías los dedos con frecuencia porque pensabas que tenía malas intenciones; haciéndome daño, te anticipabas a mi traición; por mi parte, me odiaba porque eso me gustaba, me daban ganas de traicionarte para que me volvieras a morder

A Walk on the Wild Side

There's people in hell who want ice water.

Without hesitation, Dove chose the nowhere road. For that was the only place, in his heart of hearts, that he really wanted to go.

The devil lives in a double-shot", Roman explains himself obscurely. "I got a great worm inside. Gnaws and gnaws. Every day I drown him and every day he gnaws. Help me drown the worm, fellas.