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Desire Quotes



"Seduced her? Every time I turned round she was up a library ladder. In the end I gave in. That reminds me-I spotted something between her legs that made me think of you."


"I don't think the players play with the same desire they once did."


"Stop looking at my mouth. His eyes darkened, as she saw his pupils dilate. He mouthed back, just as silently. 'What if I don't want to stop looking at your mouth?"



"She's always looking for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole Romantic kitchen. I live on a rather simpler diet.' 'Prose and pudding?''I don't expect attractive men necessarily to have attractive souls."


"How grateful are you?' he whispered, his mouth hovering over mine. His eyes were very alert now, and his gaze was boring into mine.'That kind of ruins it, when you say something like that, ' I said, trying to keep my voice gentle. 'You shouldn't want me to have sex with you just because I owe you.'I don't really care why you have sex with me, as long as you do it, ' he said, equally gently."


"The desire of a man for a woman is not directed at her because she is a human being but because she is a woman. That she is a human being is of no concern to him."


"Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality."


"Two sad eyes and one skanky smile, I practically pulse with the promise of promiscuity. I'm easy to catch, but too slippery to hold onto. Men love a challenge if the prize is guaranteed. I know how to start a fight while deepthroating a white flag."


"Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings of despair only in order to oppress the reader, and make him desire the good as the remedy."


"It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instrument, and I devoted many many many hours with little or no compensation to perfecting whatever I could, because I loved it so much."


"The trick here is, while the actual pleasure begins to recede and blur, we simultaneously bring the imagined pleasure more fully into focus. And when we do, even the memory of the pleasure becomes more and more heightened and imagined, thus anticipation is increased. This kind of anticipation is the spiritual equivalent of a Cheeto and we want them to eat the whole bag."


"Everybody has some one thing they do not want to lose," began the man. "You included. And we are professionals at finding out that very thing. Humans by necessity must have a midway point between their desires and their pride. Just as all objects must have a center of gravity. This is something we can pinpoint. Only when it is gone do people realize it even existed."


"Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession."



"My lord, I have some matter of law relating to the indictment, and I desire counsel to speak to it."



"It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite."


"He put the knuckles of his fist to the table, leaned toward Niles and spoke quietly, cuttingly, in his rough, gravelly voice.'Fucked her last night, man, and this morning. Five times. Five. It was like she hadn't been touched in a decade. So fuckin' sweet. Damn, he taunted, his eyes locked on Niles. 'You've had her, you gotta know, not enough money in the world's worth that."


"I have no desire to be a cat, which walks so lightly that it never creates a disturbance."


"The root of all desire is the realization of NOT HAVING IT!"


"I am Desire, am I not? That is what I am; that is what I do. I make things want things. Where I touch, things want and need and love - drawn to their objects of desire like butterflies to a candle-flame."


"Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem."


"One ravishing dark-haired beauty wearing leather pants and strategically applied electrical tape, stared hard at me and, when she saw me looking, licked her lips very, very slowly. She trailed a fingertip over her chin, down across her throat, and down over her sternum and gave me a smile so wicked that it's parents should have sent it to military school."



"How many things there are which I do not want."


"Zane,' she moaned. 'Please touch me.'I will. I'm going to touch every inch of you until I know what makes you sigh and what makes you giggle and what makes you beg me to never stop. I'm going to make you shudder and scream so that long after tonight you'll remember the feel of my hands and exactly where they were on your body.'I'm going to die if you don't get on with it."


"A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams."


"It is my desire to be a great writer. I know that I still have a mountain to climb to achieve that."


"We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers."


"Your fiery spirit excites me, Keirah, like nothing I have ever felt before. Yet I have the overwhelming desire to put you over my knee when you don't do as you are told."


"People desire for spices in their life I want some sugar."



"Look into your heart- and go after what you really want."


"I don't have a lot of domestic instincts,' Ranger said to me, his attention fixing on the unidentifiable glob in my hair, 'but I have a real strong urge to take you home and hose you down.'I went dry mouth. Connie bit into her lower lip, and Lula fanned herself with a file."
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