Quotes about Desire

He looked at her and for a moment she lived in the bright blue worlds of his eyes, eagerly and confidently.

When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it.

He loved her, and he would love her until the day he was too old for loving--but he could not have her. So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.

He wanted to appear suddenly to her in novel and heroic colors. He wanted to stir her from that casualness she showed toward everything except herself.

She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.

Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an orphan and utterly free. Free and poor! What fun!' She stopped and raised her lips to him in a delighted kiss. 'It's impossible to be both together,' said John grimly. 'People have found that out. And I should choose to be free as preferable of the two...

I live in a house over there on the Island, and in that house there is a man waiting for me. When he drove up at the door I drove out of the dock because he says I'm his ideal.

The world is so overgrown that it can't lift its own fingers, and I was planning to be such an important finger-

He was in love with every pretty woman he saw now, their forms at a distance, their shadows on the walls.

Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.

He was her DARK FAIRYTALE and She was his TWISTED FANTASY. Together they made MAGIC.

Suddenly he was inside the radius of her perfume and kissing her breathlessly.