#lust

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

What would your shoes say about the things you do everyday? ↗

— Sherley Mondesir-Prescott

#children #children-s-books #humor #humour #illustrated-books

Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are abysses as deep as those of love. ↗

— Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly

#lust #pleasure #love

Man liebt zuletzt seine Begierde, und nicht das Begehrte. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#lust #love

For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#will #lust

Blood, pain and an all-surpassing lust for one man settled so deeply into his bones, the need had become part of him. Bottomless, like the touch he craved. Vadim. ↗

— Aleksandr Voinov

#special-forces #lust

I've got lots of weird illustrations of me from Japanese fans. ↗

— Jamie Bell

#got #i #illustrations #japanese #lots

If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#idea #illustrating #near #novel #simply

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#confined #decree #doctrine #left #lust

To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently. ↗

— Florenz Ziegfeld

#actually #apt #dancer #dancing #difference