#lust

Well enough,” I reply. “Remember, you’re drunk. And happy. You’re supposed to be lusting over your escort. Try smiling a little more.” Day plasters a giant artificial smile on his face. As charming as ever. “Aw, come on, sweetheart. I thought I was doing a pretty good job. I got my arm around the prettiest escort on this block—how could I not be lusting over you? Don’t I look like I’m lusting? This is me, lusting.” His lashes flutter at me. He looks so ridiculous that I can’t help laughing. Another passerby glances at me. “Much better. ↗

— Marie Lu

#humor #lust #pretending #humor

I watched a lot of YouTube videos of cute geeky girls playing '80s cover tunes on ukuleles. Technically, this wasn't part of my research, but I had a serious cute-geeky-girls-playing-ukuleles fetish that I can neither explain nor defend. ↗

— Ernest Cline

#humor #lust #humor

Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#lust #sex #love

Here is how you know if it is love or lust. Push them in front of a bus. If you jump in the way and save them it is love. ↗

— Teresa Mummert

#love #lust #relationships #love

It's just me throwing myself at you, romance as usual, us times us, not lust but moxibustion, a substance burning close to the body as possible without risk of immolation. ↗

— Alice Fulton

#love #lust #poem #poetry #romance

Dear God, that man has a magnificent body.' ............. 'It’s like having a cupcake thrust in front of your face and not being allowed to have a lick of the icing. ↗

— J.L. McCoy

#lust #vampire #humor

Douglas’s fridge was a stainless-steel masterpiece. I’m not that into appliances or anything, but this one was nice and probably cost more than my last apartment. I had the strange desire to hug it every time I came into the kitchen. ↗

— Lish McBride

#humor #lust #humor

But, though I was very much in lust with him, I knew from the start we were nothing like "forever." Maybe because forever is such a scary place. ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#love #lust #scary #love

Love comes from the heart, lust comes ...lower ↗

— Teresa Mummert

#love #lust #relationship-advice #love

There is lust and then there is love. They are related, but still very different things. To indulge in one requires little but honeyed speech and a change of clothes; to obtain the other, by contrast, a man must give up his rib. In return, his woman will undo the sin of Eve, and bring him back into Paradise. ↗

— Anne Fortier

#lust #change