#desire

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. ↗

— George Eliot

#desire #effort #escape #evil #except

I saw you, and I wanted to be close to you. I wanted you to let me in. I wanted to know you in a way no one else did. I wanted you, all of you. That wanting nearly drove me mad. And now that I have you, the only thing that terrifies me is having to go back to that place. Having to want you all over again, with no hope of my desire ever being fulfilled. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#love #want #love

Don't you see what's happened? You wanted to be in love again. To feel that feeling where a man you hardly know gazes into your eyes and seems to be the only human being who ever understood the real you. ↗

— Nancy Horan

#falling-in-love #need #love

You asked about love. I don't know about love, Daphne. I just know I don't want anything but you. I don't want to anywhere but with you. ↗

— Brenna Yovanoff

#desire #love #want #love

Stupid kissing. Stupid roaming hands. Stupid boys. ↗

— Jessica Park

#desire #hands #kissing #stupid #love

It’s hard to feel desire when you don’t feel desirable ↗

— Christine Feehan

#love-yourself #self-esteem #self-image #love

That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves ↗

— C.G. Jung

#indolence #object-of-desire #love

Kiss me. My lips are on fire. You, my friend, are the object of my secret desire. ↗

— Lisa Canfield

#love #love

He grinned, though his face was strained. “That’s it, love. Use me to make yerself feel good. ↗

— Elizabeth Hoyt

#mickey #scandalous-desires #love