Quotes About Desire

But part of him wanted to say: Forget the world. He didn't want to be without her.

This is the trouble with all happiness -all of it is built on top of something men want.

I had a hard time looking at Freya without staring. There really wasn't anything safe to focus on – her eyes, her lips, her belly button. I silently scolded myself, This is Blitzen's mom! This is my aunt! I decided to focus on her left eyebrow. There was nothing entrancing about a left eyebrow.

No offense, kid, but I have a strong desire to murder your uncle with extreme prejudice." "No offense taken," I said. "I'm tempted to help you.

I LIKE my rivers the way I like my enemies—slow, wide, and lazy. I rarely get what I like.

Leo fell in love with every girl he saw-as long as she was completely out of his league.

I told you I try not to live in the past and nothing could change the fact that my mum was gone. But I'm a liar. The truth was, I'd had one dream ever since I was six: to see my mum again. To actually get to know her, talk to her, go shopping, do anything. Just be with her once so I could have a better memory to hold on to.

She kissed me, and I decided that I was glad too. A kiss in the sunset and the promise of a good bacon cheeseburger – with that kind of payoff, who needs immortality?

Now, he realized, he simply had to take what he wanted. He had to control the winds, not the other way around (p. 434).

That's – that's not fair,' Sadie said, her voice trembling. 'Tempting me with destruction.

We're not completely happy here because we're not supposed to be!

Life is a struggle, but what most people don't realize is that our struggle, like Jacob's, is really a struggle with God! We want to be God, and there's no way we are going to win that struggle.

Many people are driven by materialism. Their desire to acquire becomes the whole goal of their lives. This drive to always want more is based on the misconceptions that having more will make me more happy, more important, and more secure, but all three ideas are untrue. Possessions only provide temporary happiness. Because things do not change, we eventually become bored with them and then want newer, bigger, better versions.

You have to trust God even when you don't get what you want.

she was just like everyone else, she wanted to love someone. Even better if they loved you in return.

how overwhelming the feelings of love and terror, the desperate desire to protect. How much stronger would those feelings be if it were her own child? Perhaps too strong to bear.

the nonconception of beloved children always a stumbling block to the if-I-could-live-my-life-over-again fantasy).

I had an idea of him,' Ursula said, 'but the idea wasn't him. Perhaps I wanted to fall in love.

Gloria hesitated to imagine what kind of emergency might take place in the bedroom that would require her to hit a panic button. Graham wanting sex, maybe.

What he discovered was that the great novels of the world were about three things—death, money and sex. Occasionally a whale.

The Amethyst deflated with the dawn. It needed the night to come alive, its open maw demanding to be fed with an endless parade of people.

That was the trouble, of course. You started off liking someone because of who she was and you ended up wanting her to be different

It was as if every other joy in the world existed only to give a distant glimpse of that one.

Half delirious, I slipped my hands around Whit's thick neck. The second Idid he got confident.His mouth moved over mine in a rough, unpracticed, awkward back-and-forth motion, so fast it was as if he was trying to create fire with our lips.