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“Start maximising what you have, instead of worrying what you don’t have.”
“I want her beyond reason. I need to own, consume, worship, devour. What I've made of her in my mind cannot live in flesh.”
“Aliganaya - 'the embraceduring an intoxicated walk'or 'sudden arousalwhile driving over speed bumps”
“When my desiregrows too fierceI wear my bed clothesinside out,dark as the night’s rough husk.”
“Sometimes you risk all for a chance at your heart's desire...”
“The ways your desire could humiliate you.”
“You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been.”
“I’ve pressed sofar away frommy desire thatif you askedme what Iwant I would,accepting the harmoniouscompletion of thedrift, say annihilation,probably.”
“...there was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have.”
“She thinks of him lying there, the beautiful moment never arriving, never ruined, never disappointing, over. It must be sublime dwelling in that house of longing, forever poised on desire’s trembli...”
“Why does the forbidden always add that edge of sweetness?”
“If all of her was not enough for him, then let him have none of her and seek what he needed elsewhere.”
“He was hers. To have and hold. Not forever, maybe--not forever, for sure--and not figuratively. But literally. And now. Now, he was hers. And he wanted her to touch him. He was like a cat who pushe...”
“A stethoscope hears not the beating of a heart’s desire.”
“Look at the picture, Emma. Do you see his expression? He looks like he’s been waiting his whole life to find you and suddenly there you are.”
“All love stories are frustration stories… To fall in love is to be reminded of a frustration that you didn’t know you had (of one’s formative frustrations, and of one’s attempted self-cures for the...”
“Calina studied Nessa’s profile in the dim light of dawn. Her pulse raced as she formed a question in her mind. “Who do you want to be bothered by?”Calina felt like anything could happen in the sile...”
“If you are what you eat, then why aren’t you what you desire?"Desire stands in the great no-man’s land of human activity: the zone of most conflict, fear, and anxiety. It scares us. We are often as...”
“The essence of desire is to have no essential goal. Truly to desire, we must have recourse to people about us; we have to desire their desires.”
“But this time, so far as I can tell, my mother has not made her husband her desire incarnate, though she does love him very much. And for his part, so far as I can tell, he doesn’t try to talk her ...”
