“I never knew I was capable of being ridiculous over a man. It's a relief.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“sweet cherry lips picked freshly just for me licking your juices tasting so sweet content to feel it dripping onto my cheeks into my skin abrasive red your hue of love I crave, I devour I need”— S. M. Pastore, smpastore.tumblr.com
“I remember your thread thin arms I remember your hands and how easily it seemed to me they could rip me open.”— Ingrid Michaelson & Matt Nathanson, youtube.com
“And then there's the sickness I feel from looking at legs I can't touch, or at lips that don't smile at me. Or hips that don't reach for me. And hearts that don't beat for me.”— Markus Zusak, amazon.com
“I felt that if he touched me, I'd die. and then the thought crawled into my brain that if he didn't touch me, I'd die.”— Kitty Thomas, amazon.com
“Have you ever wanted something very badly and then gotten it? Then you know that winning is many things, but it is not the thing you thought it would be. Poor people who win the lottery do not become rich people. They become poor people who won the lottery.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“One look I cannot resist, A single touch I do desire. I crave the fruit of your tree. Never did sin taste so sweet.”— Mirtha Michelle Castro, amazon.com
“Men want to fix you save you or fuck you. I can’t be fixed and I don’t care to be saved.”— Jeanann Verlee, amazon.com
“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”— Federico García Lorca, amazon.com
“You think it can't get worse than wanting someone and not having them, but it can. You can want someone, have them, and want them more. Still. Always. You can never get enough.”— Michelle Hodkin, amazon.com
“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“As long as you lack something you yearn for it without cease. if only I could have that one thing, you tell yourself, all my problems would be solved. But once you get it, once the object of your desires is thrust into your hands, it begins to lose its charm. Other wants assert themselves, other des…”— Paul Auster, amazon.com
“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.”— George Bernard Shaw, amazon.com
“A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.”— Lionel Shriver, amazon.com
“I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“I write about love because it’s the most important thing in the world. I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world.”— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.com
“When a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.”— Gabriel García Márquez, amazon.com