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Quotes About Desire

Other lumbermen could only fume inwardly and state heatedly, in the bosoms of their families, that they wished to God Mrs. Kennedy was a man for just about five minutes. One
~ Margaret Mitchell
Há uma penalidade sempre ligada às coisas que mais desejamos. É o isolamento. pg 637
~ Margaret Mitchell
What I want I take if I can get it, and so I wrestle neither with angels nor devils
~ Margaret Mitchell
How wonderful it would be never to marry but to go on being lovely in pale green dresses and forever courted by handsome men.
~ Margaret Mitchell
it came to him that Tara, dear though it was, and the County folk, with their open hearts and open houses, were not enough. He wanted a wife.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Food! Food! Why did the stomach have a longer memory than the mind? Scarlett could banish heartbreak but not hunger and each morning as she lay half asleep, before memory brought back to her mind war and hunger, she curled drowsily expecting the sweet smells of bacon frying and rolls baking. And each morning she sniffed so hard to really smell the food she woke herself up.
~ Margaret Mitchell
But, Scarlett, 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.
~ Margaret Mitchell
As to why I have made no further advances,' he pursued blandly, as though she had not signified that the conversation was at an end, 'I am waiting for you to grow up a little more. You see, it wouldn't be much fun for me to kiss you now and I'm quite selfish about my pleasures. I never fancied kissing children.
~ Margaret Mitchell
She was constitutionally unable to endure any man being in love with any woman not herself, and the sight of India Wilkes and Stuart at the speaking had been too much for her predatory nature.
~ Margaret Mitchell
You want me to say it? All right, I'll say it. I love you." He
~ Margaret Mitchell
To her, all women, including her two sisters, were natural enemies in pursuit of the same prey--man.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Tu cau?i str?lucire, eu caut aur veritabil.
~ Margaret Mitchell
My news is this, he answered, grinning down at her. I still want you more than any woman I've ever seen and now that Frank's gone, I thought you'd be interested to know it.
~ Margaret Mitchell
I wouldn't have grudged him your body. I know how little bodies mean—especially women's bodies.
~ Margaret Mitchell
The medievalist has the capacity, and the desire, to harmonize. He believes the planets sing in harmony; why cannot technology also sing?
~ Douglas Wilson
It's like I'm thirteen again and he's my crush. All I'm aware of in this entire roomful of people is him. Where he is, what he's doing, who he's talking to.
~ Sophie Kinsella, Remember Me?
I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?
~ Ellen Hopkins, Crank
All I can think about is how I wanted to share those firsts with Logan and how I never knew it was an impossibility because it had already been taken away from me.
~ Siobhan Davis, Saven Denial
I just wanted one more day." More tears welled up in her eyes. "But it would never be enough. I could keep asking for one more day for the rest of my life.
~ Cindi Madsen, Cipher
as long as I can still dream, I will dream of you.
~ Cassandra Clare
Maybe love, unfathomable love, was too much for people, so they had traded it for something easier.
~ Gwenn Wright, Filter
I wouldn't change a thing. I want you. I'll always want you.
~ Siobhan Davis, Saven Defiance
You're crazy, ' I say.'Aye, ' Logan says. 'Crazy about you.
~ Cindy Miles, Forevermore
Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.
~ Marcus Aurelius