Quotes About Desire

If you have reasons for not coming back, I don't want to know them. I just want you to come back anyway

I think that's what you say when you can't have something you want, isn't it? You say you don't want it in the first place.

It's strange, isn't it, how we can push people away because we want to be near them? Isn't that the silliest thing?

No one wants to disappear. Words made things real, and they last so much longer than we do. So, for the record, here are the things I want to be real. And I hope that words are enough to make them that way

You are the only person I've ever met who goes the other direction from the things she wants

Peter sank. "I'd give anything to see time.

If there was a true moment that Tiger Lily fell so in love with Peter she could never turn back, it was that night, when he shivered and walked and told her he was warm, and told her he loves her so much.

Murphy glanced longingly at the junk food stalls. "Do you think the fried Mars bar truck will be here?" "You're such a guy." Leeda readjusted the garment bag she was carrying, trying to keep it steady over one shoulder. "I like my guy-like qualities

Ohhh," Pumpkin moaned. May moaned in her heart too.

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable

The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.

Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

Again, please," she whispered. (Allie to Wes)

The dreamer whispered, Just once let something happen.

She pulled a chair to the tiny table "I'm starving." "So am I," he answered, but when she glanced up he was looking at her and not the food.

Ése es el grave problema de esta sociedad: está llena de deseos de consumir y de aparentar, pero hay muy pocas ganas de ser.

Here I've been telling him things in my head for weeks, writing long, frenzied missives to him I know I'll never send, and now that I have him less than two feet away, I'm struck dumb. Fantastic.

You think you've disappeared, and then someone comes along and says, 'I see you. I want you.'" "Yes," I whisper, glad she understands. "It's crack," she says, smiling. "Pure fucking crack.

It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not.

Death waits for us all. Nothing's forever. Life's about making the best of what you find along the way. A man who's not content with what he's got, well, more than likely he won't be content with what he hasn't.

There's no disappointment like getting what you've always wanted...

You want a thing when you can't have it. When you get it you suddenly sprout doubts. Then when you think you might lose it you find you need it worse than ever.

Very well, Practical Vitari, if you really can't resist me. You'll have to go on top, though, if you don't mind.