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“Irony? Irony can never be more than our own personal Maginot line; the drawing of it, for the most part, purely arbitrary.”

Book:House of Leaves

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House of Leaves

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Mark Z. Danielewski

Mark Z. Danielewski is an American author born on March 5, 1966. He is known for his experimental narrative techniques and visual style in literature, with notable works including 'The Room' and 'The Time Traveler's Wife'. more

“Here we are, at the place where I get to beg for it. Where I get to say ‘Please, for just one night, will you lay down next to me? We can leave our clothes on, we can stay all buttoned up?’ But we both know how it goes – I say I want you inside me and you hold my head underwater. I say I want you inside me and you split me open with a knife.”

Love Romance Desire Dark

Author:Richard Siken

“You're always begging things to love you as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them -- You don't want to love -- your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.”

Love Romance Desire Fiction Longing Emptiness Fiction Novel Dh Lawrence Voidness

Book:Sons and Lovers

Source: Sons and Lovers

“...the things we don't have are sadder than the things we have. Because the things we don't have exist in our imaginations, where they are perfect.”

Desire Loss Dreams Sadness Regret

Book:Young Jane Young

Source: Young Jane Young

“I desire And I crave.”

Desire

Book:Fragments

Source: Fragments

“Once you start learning how to choose the peaceful, a small room is enough; a small quantity of food is enough; a few clothes are enough; one lover, a very ordinary man, can be enough of a lover. But if you go on asking for more and more, then thousands of men are not enough. Even the most beautiful man is finished sooner or later. Your desire goes on and on. It knows no end... it stops nowhere.”

Needs Desire Divorce Unrequited Love Break Up Business Failure Blissful Life Loss And Pain

Book:Beloved of my heart: A Darshan diary

Source: Beloved of my heart: A Darshan diary

“Could I hold your hands for a moment, and your heart forever?”

Love Romance Desire Passion Marriage Forever Love At First Sight Proposal Heartbeat

Author:Grace Willows

“In my defence, I was asleep when I fell in love with your boyish charm, hot lips and even hotter touch. What was I to do but continue falling...”

Love Desire Passion Lust Charm Touch Fall In Love Asleep Boyish Charm Hot Lips

Author:Virginia Alison

“Why did he sit so near and keep his eye on her? Why did they not have done with this searching and agony? Why did they not kiss each other simply? She wished to kiss him. But all the time she went on spinning out words.”

Love Desire Lust Agony

Book:The voyage out

Source: The voyage out

“Oh no, I do not gloat over my own person, I do not get all hot wrestling with my soul in a darkened room; I have no desires, save the desire to express myself — in defiance of all the world's muteness.”

Desire Humanity Creativity Expression

Book:Invitation to a Beheading

Source: Invitation to a Beheading

“I wanted to write ‘stay’ on your sides, surround your bed with oceans of salt. I hope he folds you into a fox, loves you like a splintered arrow, brandishes the kill of your lips. May the bouquet of your hips wither. May the wolves forget your name.”

Love Desire Stay

Author:J. Bradley

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