#desire

For a moment she lay still in the big bed, blinking sleepily, loath to move. And then she realized that the angel’s song hadn’t stopped on her waking. Silence sat up. The tantalizingly beautiful voice was coming from the half-open door to Mickey O’Connor’s room. ↗

— Elizabeth Hoyt

#scandalous-desires #silence #beauty

As a general rule, desire is always marketable: we don’t do anything but sell, buy, exchange desires. . . . And I think of Bloy’s words: “there is nothing perfectly beautiful except what is invisible and above all unbuyable. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#language #beauty

He was raw and sharp and rich and throbbing with life. He was sweet blood after a long hunt. How could she have mistaken Aiden's kisses for this? They had been delicious and smooth like the brief comfort of chocolate, but they had never been enough. ↗

— Annette Curtis Klause

#desire #love #life

Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do). ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#habit #knowledge #skill #change

It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#desire #longing #pain #suffering #time

We are all created by desire and we all die because of desire. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#desire #death

I don't want to be dying. I want to be dead. ↗

— girl

#desire #dying #want #death

He would reach for me in the middle of the night, nearly every single night, wrapping one of those solid arms around my waist and pulling me in close. So. Close. ↗

— Chelsie Shakespeare

#desire #dreams #love #meant-to-be #past-lives

Never give up. It's like breathing - once you quit, your flame dies letting total darkness extinguish every last gasp of hope. You can't do that. You must continue taking in even the shallowest of breaths, continue putting forth even the smallest of efforts to sustain your dreams. Don't ever, ever, ever give up. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#desires #dreams #drive #effort #hope

... that most natural human appetite, the hunger for somewhere else. ↗

— Victor LaValle

#dreams