#desire

She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone-desire so acute that it became despair. ↗

— Holly Black

#kaye #despair

There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire ↗

— Jacqueline Carey

#lust #lust

If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they're seventeen. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#leaving #dreams

I am the bathtub of desire, and I see you are filthy for me. You’d better get naked and let me surround you.
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— Jarod Kintz

#filthy #lust #naked #lust

Never, never underestimate the power of desire. If you want to live badly enough, you can live. The great question, at least for me, was: How do I decide I want to live? ↗

— Marya Hornbacher

#memoir

The object of your desire is not an object. ↗

— Jack Gardner

#objects #zen #zen

I am a selfish, conceited, impudent little animal, it is true, but, after all, I am only one grand conglomeration of Wanting… ↗

— Mary MacLane

#selfishness #biography

Now do you understand why I'm interested in you? You're a locked door, sweetheart. You give no one a key and you never answer the door when anyone knocks...Ah, but sometimes, sometimes I get a peek through the keyhole and what I find there...It's like glimpsing you as you're stripping. Underneath all of that darkness is something hungry, something desperate, something, oh, so deliciously vulnerable. ↗

— Tricia Owens

#empathy #gay #lust #mm #empathy

...he was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way... ↗

— Albert Camus

#love #death

I remember in 'Law of Desire,' where I played a homosexual, that people were more upset that I kissed a man on the mouth than I killed a man. It's interesting to see how people can pardon you for murdering a man, but they can't pardon you for kissing one. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#homosexual #how #i #i remember #interesting