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Quotes About Desire

Forbidden fruit a flavor has That lawful orchards mocks ; How luscious lies the pea within The pod that Duty locks !
~ Emily Dickinson
T was such a greedy, greedy wave That licked it from the coast;
~ Emily Dickinson
The heaven we chase
~ Emily Dickinson
When the Best is gone - I know that other things are not of consequence - The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care.
~ Emily Dickinson
Il troppo mi urta - è così insolito. Mi sentivo a disagio, spaesata - come una bacca di fratta montana trapiantata sulla strada. E non avevo fame. Allora capii che la fame è un istinto di chi guarda le vetrine dal di fuori. L'entrare, la disperde.
~ Emily Dickinson
To own a Susan of my own Is of itself a Bliss — Whatever realm I forfeit, Lord, Continue me in this!
~ Emily Dickinson
HOPE is a subtle glutton; He feeds upon the fair; And yet, inspected closely, What abstinence is there!
~ Emily Dickinson
Brewed from decades of agony! To think just how the fire will burn, Just how long-cheated eyes will turn
~ Emily Dickinson
Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need.
~ Emily Dickinson
I looked in windows, for the wealth I could not hope to own.
~ Emily Dickinson
Do I repine, is it all murmuring, or am I sad and lone, and cannot, cannot help it? Sometimes when I do feel so, I think it may be wrong, and that God will punish me by taking you away; for he is very kind to let me write to you, and to give me your sweet letters, but my heart wants more.
~ Emily Dickinson
Ma Rivière coule vers Toi - Mer bleue - Veux-tu m'accueillir ? Ma Rivière attend une réponse. Ô Mer - montre-toi bienveillante ! J'irai te chercher des Ruisseaux Dans des vallons diaprés - Allez Mer - tu me prends ?
~ Emily Dickinson
Who never wanted, ? maddest joy Remains to him unknown ; The banquet of abstemiousness Surpasses that of wine. Within its hope, though yet ungrasped Desire's perfect goal, No nearer, lest reality Should disenthrall thy soul.
~ Emily Dickinson
it's funny how you can't exactly pick your crush. well, you can, but once it get hold of you, it's hard to shake off.
~ Emily Franklin
it occured to her that kissing and being kissed were two different things. and being kissed by someone you've really wanted to is something else again.
~ Emily Franklin
maybe one of the reasons i don't express myself as well as i want to is because inside, shoved way down into an unseen pit, i'm not sure of what i want.
~ Emily Franklin
she thinks about lying in here with alex, of the tangle of arms and rope, or lips.
~ Emily Franklin
It's like Brad Pitt for us. You might not like blond men with pretty features, but c'mon, it's Brad. You're not going to kick him out of bed for eating crackers.
~ Emily Giffin
I do not expect to get what I want, so I don't. And I don't even try.
~ Emily Giffin
After all, I think, isn't it always about a boy?
~ Emily Giffin
The mind-blowing, ridiculous sex which was the stuff of both poetry and porn - so unlike anything else I had ever experienced before.
~ Emily Giffin
The worst thing about this particular end (of my youth) and the beginning (of middle age) is that for the first time in my life, I realize I don't know where I'm going. My wants are simple: a job that I like and a guy whom I love. And on the eve of my thirteth, I must face that I am 0 for 2.
~ Emily Giffin
The person who wants out of the relationship always gets her way.
~ Emily Giffin
Sure, we were friends who exchanged soulful glances, friends who slept in a bed filled with sexual tension, friends who found any excuse to touch, but I worried that we'd never take that perilous leap of faith toward becoming a real couple, a permanent team.
~ Emily Giffin