desire

Why does the forbidden always add that edge of sweetness?

What if someone had the potential to discover a formula to unlock the mysteries of the universe wanted to become a pulp fiction writer? What if someone who had the potential to create unparalleled gastronomic delicacies had his heart set on civil engineering? There is what we desire to do, and what we are able to do. When those two things don't coincide, which path should we pursue to find happiness?

I want you. And I usually get what I want. I had to wait too long to have you already.

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I could stand before him, be in his arms as I was just then, and still be lost to him, some phantom of a desire he cherished more than he cherished me, the woman he claimed to love.

Therese leaned closer toward it, looking down at her glass. She wanted to thrust the table aside and spring into her arms, to bury her nose in the green and gold scarf that was tied close about her neck. Once the backs of their hands brushed on the table, and Therese__ skin there felt separately alive now, and rather burning.

sometimes all we can crave is a heavenly place with no one around

The myth is strong, because the need is strong.

It is not given to each of usTo be desired.

Life is no more than the repeated fulfilling of a permanent desire.

We treat desire as a problem to be solved, address what desire is for and focus on that something and how to acquire it rather than on the nature and the sensation of desire, though often it is the distance between us and the object of desire that fills in the space in between with the blue of longing. I wonder sometimes whether with a slight adjustment of perspective it could be cherished as a sensation in its own terms, since it is as inherent to the human condition as blue is to distance?

I feared that if I let him, it would be the final push over a ledge I had been precariously hovering on since the day I had first laid eyes on him.

She thinks of him lying there, the beautiful moment never arriving, never ruined, never disappointing, over. It must be sublime dwelling in that house of longing, forever poised on desire__ trembling tip, before everything is wrecked.

The desires you aspire to need strong chains of intent.

Desire is easy to fight. Especially when the only weapon desire possess is attraction. It's not so easy when you're trying to win a war against the heart.

runaway my phantom bride and take your bouquet of poisonous flowers float away specter and take the rest of my desire

The source of evil is desire, greed, and anger.

Stats don't measure an athlete's hunger.