“When the mouth cries, I want to see God, the heart has reached its finest moment. Once we have sought and seen God, all other things have a way of finding us.”
Source: The YHWH Style: A Fresh Look at the Nature of God the Father
“Gerdanlouk, he thinks. An evocative Turkish word, with Arabic roots. It means jewelry, but only jewelry adorning a woman between her lower neck and the top of her breasts. Gerdanlouk. He looks away.”
Source: The Sultan's Seal
“But Ludmilla is always at least one step ahead of you. “I like to know that book exists that I will still be able to read…” she says, sure that existent objects, concrete albeit unknown, must correspond to the strength of her desire. How can you keep up with her, this woman who is always reading another book besides the one before her eyes, a book that does not yet exist, but which, since she wants it, cannot fail to exist?”
“Supporting God's Scriptural ability to give or restrain man's desires, Jerry Bridges points to an amazing verse tucked away in Exodus 34:24. As Israel's people abandon their defense entirely to have a feast before Him three times per year, God says the surrounding peoples will be entirely devoid of even the logical desire to possess their land.”
Source: Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts
“Everything about the place was screaming desire. The waitresses themselves looked like it was wicked ballerinas’ side hustle.”
Source: Abelard and Heloise: Youth and friendship
“What a strange thing that grief can become need in moments, in breaths, in the strength of his hands. Maybe it’s shelter. Maybe distraction. Or something else entirely. But there is old pain in me and we kiss as though we have kissed a thousand times before, as though in other lives we kissed every day, we kiss as though we have been waiting years to do so.”
Source: Wild Dark Shore
“See, this is why it's hard to be real with you. You never really want anything. You don't know what it's like to feel like you're supposed to be having a certain kind of life and you're just not doing it.”
Source: The Wilderness
“I never will be sober
while desire guides me,
lured by darkness
to distant light,
where sky gods celebrate
those who love night glory,
who dare once more
to sing among the stars.”
Source: Stranger to the Beautiful
“Spencer, I need you to kiss me... now.”
Source: Never Did I Dream: A Second Chance Off- Limits Romance
“Shamelessly, I stand and remove my bathing suit. He takes my hand and pulls me down onto him, kissing me, leaving me breathless and on fire.”
Source: Never Did I Dream: A Second Chance Off- Limits Romance