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“Nobody had ever looked at her like that—as if she were filled with such lethal sweetness that craving could be synonymous with ruin.”

Book:Quid Pro Quo

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“What is desire? Desire is a restaurant. Desire is watching you eat. Desire is pouring wine for you. Desire is looking at the menu and wondering what it would be like to kiss you. Desire is the surprise of your skin. Look - in between us now are the props of ordinary life - glasses, knives, cloths, Time has been here before. History has had you - and me too. My hand has brushed against yours for centuries. The props change, but not this. Not this single naked wanting you.”

Desire Longing Yearning Eat Hannibal

Book:Two Stories

Source: Two Stories

“On the contrary, you speak so beautifully that I could listen all day.' The astronomer threw a searching glance upon her for a moment; but there was no satire in the warm soft eyes which met his own with a luxurious contemplative interest. 'Say more of it to me,' she continued, in a voice not far removed from coaxing.”

Love Desire Flirting

Book:Two on a Tower

Source: Two on a Tower

“Even if we are married to the same person, and remain faithful to her or him for the rest of our lives, that will still not stop our desires from straying. We will continue to lust after Shah Rukh Khan or Sophia Loren even as we might stay happily married. This is the way desire operates—through fantasy rather than fact.”

Desire Heteronormativity

Book:Infinite Variety: A History of Desire in India

Source: Infinite Variety: A History of Desire in India

“...we are always both seeing and not seeing desire around us, especially when that desire steers clear of the form of a heterosexual couple.”

Desire Eroticism Heteronormativity

Book:Infinite Variety: A History of Desire in India

Source: Infinite Variety: A History of Desire in India

“The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and able to fly, turn grey lead into yellow gold, and the still rock into swift water. If it could do the one, it could do the other; it inevitably did both. When we can take green from grass, blue from heaven, and red from blood, we have already an enchanter's power-upon one plane; and the desire to wield that power in the world external to our minds awakes. It does not follow that we shall use that power well on any plane. We may put a deadly green upon a man's face and produce a horror; we may make the rare and terrible blue moon to shine; or we may make woods to spring with silver leaves and rams to wear fleeces of gold, and put hot fire into the belly of the cold worm.”

Desire Power Magic Transformation Dragon Adjective

Book:On Fairy-Stories

Source: On Fairy-Stories

“But we get accustomed to mental as well as bodily pain, without, for all that, losing our sensibility to it. It becomes a habit of our lives, and we cease to imagine a condition of perfect ease as possible for us. Desire is chastened into submission, and we are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence and act as if we were not suffering.”

Happiness Desire Suffering Grief

Book:Adam Bede

Source: Adam Bede

“People do not need more sex, but they need pleasure that carries sexual energy, and a sensual lifestyle is a powerful way to deliver it.”

Romance Desire Passion Sex Sensuality Sensual Intimacy Sexual Energy

Author:Lebo Grand

“We can never experience sensuality beyond our capacity to conceive and receive. As much sensuality as we can accept, that much we can demonstrate.”

Desire Passion Experience Sensuality Sensual Intimacy Ecstasy Soul Connection

Author:Lebo Grand

“. . . each of us harboured the desire to make our own small contribution to the creation of a better world.”

Desire Creation

Book:The Remains of the Day

Source: The Remains of the Day

“Dumas has a truly clear understanding of the human mind. What does everyone desire, and desire more fervently the more wretched and unfortunate they are? To earn money easily, to have power (the enormous pleasure in commanding and humiliating your fellow man) and to avenge every wrong suffered (everyone in life has suffered at least one wrong, however small it might be). And that is why in Monte Cristo he shows us how to amass great wealth, enough to give you superhuman power, and how to make your enemies pay back every debt. But why, everybody asks, am I not blessed by fortune (or at least not as blessed as I would like to be)? Why have I not been favored like others who are less deserving? No one believes their misfortunes are attributable to any shortcomings of their own; that is why they must find a culprit. Dumas offers, to the frustration of everyone (individuals as well as countries), the explanation for their failure. It was someone else, on Thunder Mountain, who planned your ruin.”

Desire Power Conspiracy Theory Payback Wretch

Book:The Prague Cemetery

Source: The Prague Cemetery

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