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Quotes About Forbidden

This moment, the three of them together, it was her default fantasy—always in the back of her mind. But she'd forbidden herself to think it was attainable. After all, was it ever possible to really have it all?
~ Tia Williams
This moment, the three of them together, it was her default fantasy—always in the back of her mind. But she'd forbidden herself to think it was attainable. After all, was it ever possible to really have it all? Did happy endings truly exist in real life? Maybe they did. Maybe this was hers.
~ Tia Williams
Alai suddenly kissed Ender on the cheek and whispered in his ear, "Salaam." Then, red-faced, he turned away and walked to his own bed at the back of the barracks. Ender guessed that the kiss and the word were somehow forbidden. A suppressed religion, perhaps. Or maybe the word had some private and powerful meaning for Alai alone.
~ Orson Scott Card
gift so sacred that even Ender could not be allowed to understand what it meant.
~ Orson Scott Card
Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.
~ Oscar Wilde
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
~ Oscar Wilde
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.
~ Oscar Wilde
La única manera de librarse de la tentación es ceder ante ella. Si se resiste, el alma enferma, anhelando lo que ella misma se ha prohibido, deseando lo que sus leyes monstruosas han hecho monstruoso e ilegal
~ Oscar Wilde
And this time he would have said it, right? I love you. So much. Too much. But that was forbidden. For all time. The Elf would take his heart in payment.
~ Cornelia Funke
Fox could've kissed him on the mouth just to taste the smile on his lips. Forbidden. She'd almost forgotten.
~ Cornelia Funke
But fear was an emotion Jacob almost enjoyed. It lured him to dark places, through forbidden doors and far away from himself. Even the yearning for his father could be drowned in it.
~ Cornelia Funke
There was a whole subculture of mentalists who spent their nights breaking into boarded-up tube stations, forgotten sewers, abandoned buildings, and other places you just aren't meant to be.
~ Cory Doctorow
When the Viennese government compiled a Catalogue of Forbidden Books in 1765, so many Austrians used it as a reading guide that the Hapsburg censors were forced to include the Catalogue itself as a forbidden book.
~ Craig Nelson
there is no pornography without a secrecy.
~ D.H. Lawrence
Dismissed, he wanted to kiss her, but he dared not. She half wanted him to kiss her, but could not bring herself to give any signs.
~ D.H. Lawrence
Only in intimacy with obscenity can one know what is obscene.
~ Wayne C. Booth
Let's see.' She fiddles with her terminal and the room card reader. 'You're in 403 and 404. Have a nice day.' I hand Persephone the Forbidden Room card and keep Room Not Found for myself. She looks at me oddly.
~ Charles Stross
Almost every new movie I see these days features a bright, good-looking, talented young man who is so downright sad, he can barely lift his head. I want to scream, "What's wrong with this guy?" Then I feel a profound compassion because his generation has been forbidden the one thing that makes life such a breathtaking challenge: truth.
~ Charles W. Colson
Life is a bitch when the only woman you can think of belongs to someone else.
~ Chetan Bhagat
Come to the Dark Side. We have chocolate.
~ Cheyenne McCray
Cain: Then my father's God did well When he prohibited the fatal tree. Lucifer: But had done better in not planting it. But ignorance of evil doth not save From evil: it must still roll on the same, A part of all things.
~ Lord Byron, "Cain"
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
~ H. L. Mencken
Faens 11. september gir meg lyst til å plaffe ned bin Laden. Men det går ikke, siden det er forbudt å bære våpen om bord i flyet.
~ Hallgrimur Helgason
But artists love what is forbidden to them, a fact I learned too young; too early.
~ Halsey