Quotes About Desire

You like being in love with someone who's not going to love you back." She opened her eyes. He looked at her. "Why would I like that?" she asked. He shrugged. "I don't know.

They say there's peace if you can relinquish desire. For me desire's absence has only ever left a dull persistent ache.

between what you thought you wanted and what you wanted? Why did people have to be such a danger to themselves? She had had reasons for her choices. Good

Why was it so hard to tell the difference between what you thought you wanted and what you wanted? Why did people have to be such a danger to themselves?

fiction started up, and we started burning brain cells on stories about things that didn't happen to people who didn't exist. Why? The only answer can be that humans deeply, deeply desired it.

Don't underestimate the attraction of your ass, Roscoe, whatever you do.

Her breasts rested on the edge of the table.

Echo was a young girl in love with Narcissus. But he loved himself, not her, so she pined away until just her voice was left.

pity the man who gets what he wants. And it's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

no one should ever underestimate the appeal of an opiate high. Far as I can tell, it's a beautiful thing. The way they talk about it, it's the best thing ever. For some folks it hits the spot so hard it reboots their lives.

We tore each other's clothes off like they were on fire. She was gorgeous. Firm and strong and a shape like a dream. Skin like silk. She pulled me to the floor through bars of hot sunlight from the window. It was frantic. We were rolling and nothing could have stopped us. It was like the end of the world. We shuddered to a stop and lay gasping. We were bathed in sweat. Totally spent.

He said, "Come back," a little louder. She straightened up. He got the impression she was about to puke. He didn't want that. Not all over his good clothes. But he licked her ear one more time

G. K. Chesterton once said of Charles Dickens, "Dickens didn't write what people wanted. Dickens wanted what people wanted.

expensive silk jacket, ambitious.

crimes come down to love, hate, or money, and unlike what it says in the bible, the greatest of these is money.

average height would want

Of course, that rationalization didn't work at all. It would have helped if I'd had some Oreo cookie ice cream to eat at the same time. I've learned that self-delusion is much easier when there's something sweet in your mouth.

And I wanted that - to come first in somebody's life. Isn't that what we all want?

He really was perfect. If only he was perfect for me.

Sex with a woman who wants to please a man is nothing compared to sex with a woman who wants to please herself.

I'm just a-- I looked at Yoshiro. An unimpressive girl who doesn't want to battle ghosts and kill wraiths. There's only three things I want. To find my family. Dispel Neos. And to-- I stopped suddenly, and didn't know where to look. Yes? Yoshiro said. The third thing? To be with me, Bennett said.

It is merely that there is only so much people can do to be happy, no matter what they think they should do.

But I would do it all again, every bit of it, I would lose him again just to have him again for an hour, for a minute, for even a second. I would do it all again just to see his face.

To much has happened too fast Dear Diary. What I want is for nothing to happen at all. I don't even want good things anymore. I just want nothing.