Quotes About Desire

It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor?

Yes, life was very sweet and cosy with Scarlett - as long as she had her own way

Oh, why was he so handsomely blond, so courteously aloof, so maddeningly boring with his talk about Europe and books and music and poetry and things that interested her not at all - and yet so desirable?

She raised her chin and her pale, black-fringed eyes sparkled in the moonlight. Ellen had never told her that desire and attainment were two different matters; life had not taught her that the race was not to the swift. She lay in the silvery shadows with courage rising and made the plans that a sixteen-year-old makes when life has been so pleasant that defeat is an impossibility and a pretty dress and a clear complexion are weapons to vanquish fate.

I love you...I've always loved you. I've never loved anybody else. I just married Charlie to - to try to hurt you. Oh, Ashley, I love you so much I'd walk every step of the way to Virginia just to be near you! And I'd cook for you and polish your boots and groom your horse - Ashley, say you love me! I'll live on it for the rest of my life!

She was going to rush into life and wrest from it what she could.

Oh - a diamond ring - and Rhett, do buy a great big one!

You need kissing badly. That's what's wrong with you. All your beaux have respected you too much, though God knows why, or they have been too afraid of you to really do right by you. The result is that you are unendurably uppity. You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

I want you more than I have ever wanted any woman—and I've waited longer for you than I've ever waited for any woman.

desear y conseguir eran dos cosas distintas. La vida no le había enseñado que correr no siempre significa alcanzar.

Oh, Scarlett, you are so young you wring my heart.

There was madness and magic in the slim body he held, and the lips turned up to him were red and trembling and he kissed her.

I always intended having you, Scarlett, since that first day I saw you at Twelve Oaks when you threw that vase and swore and proved that you weren't a lady. I

You have all the passion for life I lack.

If for no other reason she hated the Yankees because they kept her from having real coffee with sugar and thick cream in it.

Ellen had never told her that desire and attainment were two different matters; life had not taught her that the race was not to the swift. She lay in the silvery shadows with courage rising and made the plans that a sixteen-year-old makes when life has been so pleasant that defeat is an impossibility and a pretty dress and a clear complexion are weapons to vanquish fate.

So you could not love me? That is as I hoped. For while I like you immensely, I do not love you and it would be tragic indeed for you to suffer twice from unrequited love, wouldn't it, dear?

The whole world can't lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven't got any more—and by remembering too much.

She is the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality.

His one great flaw was making the terrible and exhilarating mistake of falling in love with Scarlett O'Hara.

had awakened no idea of what passion might be or tenderness or true intimacy of body or spirit.

Give me a good horse to ride and some good licker to drink and a good girl to court and a bad girl to have fun with and anybody can have their own Europe.... What do we care about missing the tour?

Longing hearts could only stand so much of longing.

Sometimes Frank sighed, thinking he had caught a tropic bird, all flame and jewel color, when a wren would have served him just as well. In fact, much better