Ahmad Ardalan quote: Milano is a breeze of confidence for those

“I don't mean that I possessed those qualities myself. I mean it in the sense that religion provides a chance at grace; not because it is real, but because it is believed to be real. You're a saint, my darling; but even a saint is lost without god of some sort or another. Equally, if you worship something ardently enough, it might as well be divine. And I was surprised to find how easy it was to create a divinity of myself.”

Desire Obsession

Book:Innocents

Source: Innocents

“Aye, a pretty face could gain a man's attention easy enough, but with some women, the first flash of desire proved as temporary as a ripple on water. Without something deeper beneath the surface, the attraction evaporated in the stagnant shallows.”

Character Desire Attraction

Book:The Raven Song

Source: The Raven Song

“His face is close to mine and he's radiating heat. I can't look at him because if I do I'm afraid I'll snuggle into him. He tilts up my chin. His eyes are filled with concern. "Are you angry?" It's not anger that's pumping through me. The feeling is kind of like that first glass of whiskey. It burns in my chest, warms my stomach, makes me a bit queasy.”

Romance Desire

Book:Keyflame

Source: Keyflame

“There's no substitute for what you really want.”

Want Desire Substitute

Book:Dead Glamorous: The Autobiography of Seduction & Self-Destruction

Source: Dead Glamorous: The Autobiography of Seduction & Self-Destruction

“With power you get what you desire. But with wisdom you discover what is worthwhile to desire.”

Wisdom Desire Power

Author:George Hammond

“Potentially being punished for something you want to do can diminish your desire to do it, but the certainty of ridicule if others find out you want to do it usually totally destroys that desire.”

Desire Shame Ridicule

Author:George Hammond

“Desire had been a madness in her, grounded by a love that had filled her like a breath - as if it had always been meant, written on her soul when it was just a seed.”

Love Desire

Book:A Day of Fallen Night

Source: A Day of Fallen Night

“Y pues sí, a veces sucede que el ligue sexual se ve frustrado por el contexto circundante y el deseo se diluye como el humo de cigarrillo.”

Desire Sex Sexuality Queer

Book:Escenas catalanas: errancias antropológico - sexuales

Source: Escenas catalanas: errancias antropológico - sexuales

“She glanced at the knife with what seemed to me like longing. "Here's my breast bared to you," she said. "Plunge the knife in." I looked at her naked body which, though within my grasp, I did not possess. Sitting on the side of the bed, I bowed my head meekly. She placed her hand on my cheek and said in a tone that was not devoid of gentleness: "My sweet, you're not the kind of man that kills." I experienced a feeling of ignominy, loneliness, and loss. Suddenly I remembered my mother. I saw her face clearly in my mind's eye and heard her saying to me "It's your life and you're free to do with it as you will." I remembered that the news of my mother's death had reached me nine months ago and had found me drunk and in the arms of a woman. I don't recollect now which woman it was; I do, though, recollect that I felt bo sadness – it was as thought the matter was of absolutely no concern to me. I remembered this and wept from deep within my heart. I wept so much I thought I would never stop. I felt Jean embraceing me and saying things I couln't make out, though her voice was repellent to me and sent a shudder through my body I pushed her violently from me. "I hate you," I shouted at her. "I swear I'll kill you one day." In the throes of my sorrow the expression in her eyes did not escape me. They shone brightly and gave me a strange look. Was it surprise? Was it fear? Was it desire? Then, in a voice of simulated tenderness, she said: "I too, my sweet, hate you. I shall hate you until death.”

Desire Loneliness Sorrow Hatred

Book:Season of Migration to the North

Source: Season of Migration to the North

“You see the beetle too carrying off a leaf on its back. It runs this way, then that way, so that even your desire while you watch the beetle, to possess one single thing (it is Louis now) must waver, like the light in and out of the beech leaves; and the words, moving darkly, in the depths of your mind will break up this knot of hardness, screwed in your pocket-handkerchief.”

Desire

Author:Virginia Woolf

Quote by Ahmad Ardalan

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