“Or, at the very least, turn me little again.' He wiped his eyes with a sleeve, and stared at the plate of mung bean cakes. 'Little enough that all I wanted to reach for was the banquet table. When all I knew to desire was a sweet cake. And even if everyone punished me, or yelled at me, or hated me, at least back then I didn’t know why. If you can’t turn me into a fish, at least turn me little.”
Source: The Poet Empress
“If you see a person who looks like your teenage fantasy walking down the street, it's probably not your fantasy, but someone who had the same fantasy as you and decided instead of getting it or being it, to look like it, and so he went to the store and bought the look that you both like.”
Source: Fame
“Desire blurred reality.”
Source: Red Wings: A Lust in Paris Novel - Vol. I
“I have need of all those crimes, all those very sins, which you have shrouded beneath the signposts of 'The Forbidden Zone'.”
Source: Sapphire: The Blue Testament
“We give you one term of Apollo: chasing a bitch, the usual bitch. And one term of Narcissus: running away from one.”
Source: Dream of Fair to Middling Women
“My carefully constructed world of logic and clinical detachment? It didn't just crack - it imploded.”
Source: The Butterfly Effect of Bad Decisions: A Love Story About Learning to Love Yourself First .
“He promised to ruin me, and God help me, I was beginning to pray he would.”
Source: The Butterfly Effect of Bad Decisions: A Love Story About Learning to Love Yourself First .
“Hundreds of years have passed since his resounding victory. But beware, fair desert folk, for peace is a fragile promise. If you ever come into the desert and hear a voice from your memory offering you your greatest desires, turn away from it. That path is filled with broken and deadly lies.”
Source: The Stardust Thief
“In relation to [ethics as a pursuit of desire], we should mention yet another version of this 'path of passivity', which consists in trying to extort from the Other the 'right answer' . Here, the subject wants the Other to choose for him. For such a subject, the Other always appears in the form of some other person. One could say that this subject aims at elevating some small other to the rank of the (big) Other. The subject spends his life imposing choices upon others, reminding them that they are free individuals who must know what they really want. To take an example: in the case of a love affair that does not suit him any more, such a subject will never break it up, he will delegate this decision to the other. He will play the honest one, he will admit that he is cheating, that he is indeed weak and that apparently he is not up to a real relationship. He will tell the other: 'There, these are the facts, this is how I am, I'm laying myself bare before you - what more can I do? - and now it's your turn to make a decision, to make your choice. ' And if this other decides to leave, she leaves precisely as the (big) Other. We might even say that all the activity of such a subject is leading towards this scene of a miraculous metamorphosis of the other into the Other (who knows what she wants or does not want, and acts accordingly).”
Source: Ethics of the Real: Kant, Lacan
“It is possible that Vanessa has asked for too much of the world, pushed it too far beyond its limits.
But if Joan's voice is the one with her now, she must gave done something right.”
Source: Atmosphere