Quotes About Desire

You know, the way teenage guys talk about sex, you'd think all of us were having it all the time, nonstop.

I turn back to the man. Back to Ben. He is mine, I think. If there is peace, he is mine. Mine to kill.

Ojalá me quedaran cien años -dijo con voz muy baja-. Cien años que darte.

I wanted him to do it, I wanted it to happen- And it did. I controlled him. Just like the Mayor. I watch him go, still walking to the food store, like it was his own idea. My hands are shaking. Bloody hell.

You can't redeem him, Todd," she says, a little softer but I flinch a bit at the word redeem. "You can't. Because he doesn't want it.

You know. And if you don't know, you don't want to.

Physical beauty, of all the curses, was obviously the best you could get. It was still a curse though.

Well, Adam thought. I've had my mouth on his bare skin. That seemed to be effective.

è questo che vogliono sempre fare, i mostri. Parlare.

Desideravi solo la fine del dolore, disse il mostro. Il tuo dolore. La conclusione dell'isolamento in cui questo ti aveva rinchiuso. è il più umano fra tutti i desideri.

E lui capì che era giunto il momento. Capì che davvero non c'era ritorno. Che sarebbe accaduto, qualunque cosa potesse desiderare, qualunque cosa potesse provare. E sapeva anche che l'avrebbe superato. Sarebbe stato terribile. Sarebbe stato ben più che terribile. Ma sarebbe sopravvissuto.

To see the ocean once is to learn how to miss it.

So much that he can only glimpse enough of to know that it's forever beyond his reach.

And sometimes you need things rather than just thoughts.

That is what death is, a state of constant hunger, for the things you've left behind, for your memories, for life.

The great trick of the devil is to make you want to see him. But it is only when you see him that you fear him. And by then, it is too late...We are too eager to build devils. Is it only a matter of time before we are at war again?

I want her so much, my heart feels heavy, like i'm grieving. Is this what they meant about that stomach feeling? They didn't say it felt this sad.

I would submit, sir, that you and your family are addicted to money.

David had talked about his desire to "humanize" his family, but one problem for the Sacklers was that, unlike a lot of human beings, they didn't seem to learn from what they saw transpiring in the world around them.

I wanted to tell her that she was the first beautiful thing I had seen in three years. That the sight of her yawning to the back of her hand was enought to drive the breath from me. How I sometimes lost the sense of her words in the sweet fluting of her voice. I wanted to say that if she were with me then somehow nothing could ever be wrong for me again.

But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?

I would never normally approach a woman in this way, but I couldn't help but notice that you have the eyes of a lady I was once desperately in love with. " "What a shame to love only once," she said, showing her white teeth in a wicked smile. "I've heard some men can manage twice or even more." I ignored her gibe. "I am only a fool once. Never will I love again.

Auri stood, and in the circle of her golden hair she grinned and brought the weight of her desire down full upon the world. And all things shook. And all things knew her will. And all things bent to please her.

But for half a minute she wished it was a different sort of day, even though she knew that nothing good could come from wanting at the world.