#desire

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Phaedra keeps saying she's being selfish. That she hates herself for it, but she does it anyway. She can't deny herself what she wants, even if it brings about her downfall and his." "And have you learned anything from our literary parallel?" "Not really, I keep thinking that she would do it all over again if there were a chance...a chance that it could go right. Even if 99 times out of a 100 the story ends badly, it's worth it if only once she gets a happy ending.


Cora Carmack


#chance-and-fortune #desire #garrick #guilt #hope

His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.


Oscar Wilde


#curiosity #desire #life #love #passion

And silence. She liked the silence most of all. The silence in which the body, senses, the instincts, are more alert, more powerful, more sensitized, live a more richly perfumed and intoxication life, instead of transmuting into thoughts, words, into exquisite abstractions, mathematics of emotion in place of violent impact, the volcanic eruptions of fever, lust and delight.


Anaïs Nin


#love #silence #life

I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.


Lev Grossman


#love #relationships #trouble #love

Oh no. Don't smile. You'll kill me. I stop breathing when you smile.


Tessa Dare


#desire #humor #love #romance #smile

I get what it's like to want something, but to try and force yourself to really believe that you don't.


Cora Carmack


#desires #losing-it #repression #unrequited-love #love

What was he? A mere human, stuck between the rungs of blended adolescence and nascent adulthood. What power did he command over the mysterious forces of love? Which sword could shatter the impenetrable armour of desire?


Faraaz Kazi


#confusion #desire #love #love

I want my time to be taken up by chores, errands, appointments, and arguments. In other words, I want to get married.


Jarod Kintz


#argue #arguments #chores #cynicism #desire

Desiring money kills desire. Money kills desire.


André Chamson


#money #money

Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the cause, whatever the duration, it almost always leaves a scar.


Philip Sington


#longing #love #love