Quotes About Desire

I didn't say it wasn't," Liam said. "I just don't want it in the room." Pulling her into his arms, Liam gave her a very tender kiss. "Good thinking!" Annie finally said as Liam blew out the candles.

when all your smiles should be for me,

Before Annie could answer, he was there, hugging her until her ribs ached and kissing her so hard that her lips felt bruised.

And no sooner had Cap been commanded, if she valued her safety, not to cross the water or climb the precipice than, as a natural consequence, she began to wonder what was in the valley behind the mountain and what might be in the woods across the river. And she longed, above all things, to explore and find out for herself.

The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

Think of it like this. If you are sad because you can't have something you want - maybe a book or a toy - you can do one of two things: you can do your best to get it, or you can stop wanting it. Either way, if you succeed, you won't be sad any more.

If the appetite goes, the pain goes with it.

You smell heavenly. I slept on your side of your side of the bed because your pillow smells of you.

Laters, baby.

I'd like to bite that lip.

We aim to please Miss Steele

Placing my head on my knees, I let the irrational tears fall unrestrained. I am crying over the loss of something I never had. How ridiculous. Mourning something that never was - my dashed hopes, my dashed dreams, and my soured expectations.

Every now and then, a person must do something simply because he wants to, because it seems to him worth doing. And that does not make it worthless or a waste of time.

He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.

A força explosiva da mais pequena mortificação. Todo o desejo vencido nos torna poderosos. Quanto mais nos afastamos dele, e a ele deixamos de aderir, melhor dominamos este mundo. A renúncia confere um poder infinito.

She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.

Love felt and returned, love which our bodies exact and our hearts have transfigured, love which is the most real thing that we shall ever meet, reappeared now as the world's enemy, and she must stifle it.

Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood.

They had never struggled, and only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

It is obvious enough for the reader to conclude, "She loves young Emerson." A reader in Lucy's place would not find it obvious. Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice, and we welcome "nerves" or any other shibboleth that will cloak our personal desire. She loved Cecil; George made her nervous; will the reader explain to her that the phrases should have been reversed?

It's miles worse for you than that; I'm in love with your gamekeeper.

But it was the stupidity of passion, which would rather have nothing than a little.

He would not deceive himself so much. He would not – and this was the test – pretend to care about women when the only sex that attracted him was his own. He loved men and always had loved them. He longed to embrace them and mingle his being with theirs. Now that the man who returned his love had been lost, he admitted this.