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“The desire to be noticed has always been an essential part of the human condition.”

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Book:What We Want: A Journey Through Twelve of Our Deepest Desires

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“When I had almost reached him he turned and smiled at me. Then, with a strangely gauche and still hesitant movement, he shook my trembling hand. "Hello, Hans", he said, and suddenly I realised to my joy and relief and amazement that he was as shy and as much in need of a friend as I.”

Love Desire Friendship Attraction Admiration Fascination Shyness

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“He swallowed hard and clenched his jaw. 'You have no idea what I'm feeling now.' He looked at her lips, and the most tortured expression she'd ever seen crossed his face. When Jacks wanted something, it was with an intensity that could break worlds and build kingdoms. That was the energy pouring off him now, as if he wanted to destroy her and make her his queen all at once. And it was oh so tempting to let him. Magic crackled in the sliver of space between them. Golden and electric and alive. It felt like the end of a fairytale, when one kiss has more power than a thousand wars or a hundred spells.”

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Book:The Ballad of Never After

Source: The Ballad of Never After

“There's a certain madness that comes from wanting something you can't have. It can lead to violence, if left unchecked. Better to possess the object of your desires in pieces than to see it in the hands of someone else.”

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Book:Rent Girl

Source: Rent Girl

“Just one look set her blood on fire, and she liked the way it burned.”

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Book:The Ballad of Never After

Source: The Ballad of Never After

“No one desires to end their happiness by sadness! But who can defy nature’s illusion? We being materialistic keep on taking birth to love, Which is temporary in this world full of darkness? Get your mind out of this worldly short term pleasure, We born out of sand will go in sand! Everything goes but why this bloody lust doesn’t go?”

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Book:Love Forever

Source: Love Forever

“I can't remember much of what Konradin said to me that day or what I said to him. All I know is that we walked up and down for an hour, like two young lovers, still nervous, still afraid of each other; but somehow I knew that this was only a beginning and that from now on my life would no longer be empty and dull but full of hope and richness for us both.”

Love Desire Friendship Lovers Attraction Admiration Fascination Shyness

Book:Reunion

Source: Reunion

“Some sort of perversity in our souls makes us not want, get away from, the very thing we want. We have to fight against that.”

Desire Self Deprivation

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Source: Sons and Lovers

“Great losses are great lessons.”

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“The man who is ruled by desire and enslaved to pleasure will make the one he loves as pleasing to himself as possible; and to a sick man anything which does not resist him is pleasant”

Love Desire Lust Disordered Love

Book:Phaedrus/Lysis

Source: Phaedrus/Lysis

“Standing quite still I looked at him. Needless to say Konradin hadn't giggled. He hadn't clapped either. But he looked at me.”

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Book:Reunion

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