#sir

I am the bathtub of desire, and I see you are filthy for me. You’d better get naked and let me surround you.
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— Jarod Kintz

#filthy #lust #naked #lust

I desire the things which will destroy me in the end. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#journalism

What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human. ↗

— Clarice Lispector

#being #desire #evolution #human #yearning

Sometimes you don't even know what you want until you find out you can't have it. ↗

— Meghan O'Rourke

#need #want #memoir

Never, never underestimate the power of desire. If you want to live badly enough, you can live. The great question, at least for me, was: How do I decide I want to live? ↗

— Marya Hornbacher

#memoir

The object of your desire is not an object. ↗

— Jack Gardner

#objects #zen #zen

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#desires #happiness #i #i have learned #learned

I am a selfish, conceited, impudent little animal, it is true, but, after all, I am only one grand conglomeration of Wanting… ↗

— Mary MacLane

#selfishness #biography

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

...Sirius had never kept him waiting before...Sirius had risked everything, always, to see Harry, to help him...If Sirius was not reappearing out of that archway when Harry was yelling for him as though his life depended on it, the only possible explanation was that he could not come back...That he really was... ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#death #depressing #harry-potter #j-k-rowling #sad