“Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.”— Carson McCullers, amazon.com
“She wanted to be alone, but not lonely. That was very different; that was something that ached and hurt dreadfully right inside one.”— Elizabeth von Arnim, amazon.com
“As I kissed her the heat of her body increased, and it exhaled a wild, untamed fragrance.”— Gabriel Garcia Marquez, amazon.com
“A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else’s life would not have been as rich without us here.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“I’m shocked to hear that you love me, and if I were not to hear it I’d want to die.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.”— John Berger, amazon.com
“I hope you find someone you can’t live without. I really do. And I hope you never have to know what it’s like to have to try and live without them.”— Kiera Cass, amazon.com
“I want to be someone else somewhere else with something else to fill my mind.”— Tahereh Mafi, amazon.com
“What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.”— Suzanne Collins, amazon.com
“You see I’d like to have you not just like me in bed but like me in the head and like to talk about things that interest us both.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.”— Bernhard Schlink, amazon.com
“Our passions are, in truth, like the phoenix. When the old one burns away, the new one rises out of its ashes at once.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, amazon.com