Quotes About Desire

He had also the reputation of being a bit of a lady killer. But that probably accrued to him from his possession of a laughing, velvety voice which no girl could hear without a heartbeat, and a dangerous way of listening as if she were saying something that he had longed all his life to hear.

It doesn't seem FAIR, said Anne rebelliously. Babies are born and live where they are not wanted-where they will be neglected-where they have no chance. I would have loved my baby so-and cared for it tenderly-and tried to give her every chance for good. And yet I wasn't allowed to keep her.

If only she were a boy, speeding in khaki by Carol's side to the western front! She had wished that in a burst of romance when Jem had gone, without perhaps, meaning it. She meant it now. There were moments when waiting at home, in safety and comfort, seemed an unendurable thing.

If I had my way I'd shut everything out of your life but happiness and pleasure, Anne, said Gilbert in the tone that meant danger ahead. Then

It wouldn't do to have all our dreams fulfilled. We would be as good as dead if we had nothing left to dream about. - Anne Shirley

but youth yearned to youth.

Its wonderful to have ambition.

Teddy was feeling as miserable and impotently angry as any male creature does when two women are quarreling about him in his presence. He wished himself a thousand miles away.

Isn't it a pity we can't have two husbands? One to look at and one to talk to.

There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from loving things, isn't it?

Yes; but cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good

No, I've neither wife nor progeny, Miss Plum. I've often tried to get married, but something always prevented. Sometimes everyone was willing but the girl herself. Sometimes nobody was willing.

After all, it is fairy tales the world wants. Real life is all the real life we want. Give us something better in books.

It doesn't hurt to love if you do not hope to be loved in return. I've never hoped to be loved in return--but it hurts damnably, said Roger.

I don't want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want YOU.

Love! What a searing, torturing, intolerably sweet thing it was - this possession of body, soul and mind! With something at its core as fine and remote and purely spiritual as the tiny blue spark in the heart of the unbreakable diamond.

What I want is a housekeeper. If I shaved every Sunday and went to church I'd get all the housekeepers I'd want. I'd be respectable then. But what's the use of going to church when it's all settled by predestination? Tell me that, Miss.

The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.

When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded aside.

What hurt her was that she had never had a chance to be anything but an old maid. No man had ever desired her.

shouldn't. I must get out all my ambitions

I do hope some day that I will have a white dress. That is my highest ideal of earthly bliss.

Tutkular?m? yeniden ortaya ç?karmal?, üzerlerinde biriken tozu silip atmal?y?m.

Dreams and make-believes are all very well in the daytime and the sunshine, but when dark and storm come they fail to satisfy. One wants real things then. But you don't know this . . . seventeen never knows it.