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“When their eyes connected she tilted her head slightly…paused, and smiled. It was as if she needed to see him at a different angle to insure that her instant desire wasn’t a vanishing mirage”
“Regrets, Blacksmith, make poor currency. You can't but back with them what you most desire.”
“Sickness occurs when we desire what we need and what’s desirable with equal intensity, suffering our lack of perfection as if we were suffering for lack of bread.”
“When you want something badly enough it’s amazing what you’ll ignore.”
“My God, Sweetness beyond words, make bitter all the carnal comfort that draws me from love of the eternal and lures me to its evil self by the sight of some delightful good in the present. Let it n...”
“The decision as to whether to risk one’s actual life or to surrender the ideal self-conception is a decision about who one is.(from The structure of desire and recognition)”
“I will not exorcise you—I’d miss your fragrance, the soft tread of your step on the stair”
“burnt by the sunof your mouth, I’m unable to speak or paint you with words”
“All that pent up longing,” he says, “all that desire to flail and flap around. Them wings have needs.”
“When a man desires a thing too much, he at once becomes ill at ease. A proud and avaricious man never rests, whereas he who is poor and humble of heart lives in a world of peace. An unmortified man...”
“You want me.”“Want does not begin to describe the way I feel about you,” his low voice promised. “Want is nothing compared with the level of desire I have. With the desperation I feel. With the way...”
“In Kant’s description, ethical duty functions like a foreign traumatic intruder that from the outside disturbs the subject’s homeostatic balance, its unbearable pressure forcing the subject to act ...”
“She led him to the top of the stairs, where light came straight from the sky because the second-story windows of that house had been placed in the pitched ceiling and not the walls. There were two ...”
“We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss.”
“For a guy, nothing is sexier than a girl who craves his little guy and can’t keep her hands off of it… because this is exactly the way he feels about your ladyparts whether he’s groping them like a...”
“When the heart craved something so forcefully, then reason became nothing but helpless observer.”
“We preoccupy ourselves with what we had — or what we want to have — at the expense of what we have.”
“Every time I opened my mouth, flame licked up my throat. I could have razed villages, kidnapped princesses.”
“I wanted to hear his window open, hear his espadrilles on the balcony, and then the sound of my own window, which was never locked, being pushed open as he'd step into my room after everyone had go...”
“I knew if I started touching you I wouldn't be able to stop.”
