Bones Quote by Edith Wharton

“Now his imagination spun about the hand as about the edge of a vortex; but still he made no effort to draw nearer. He…

— Edith Wharton

“What the boy felt was something pure, something gentle, something that predates sex or sensual fulfillment. It was the simple desire to reach out…

— Michel Houellebecq

“A warm human plumpness settled down on his brain. His brain yielded. Perfume of embraces all him assailed. With hungered flesh obscurely, he mutely…

— James Joyce

Love is nourished only by sacrifices, and the more a soul refuses natural satisfactions, the stronger and more disinterested becomes her tenderness.

— Therese of Lisieux

“He'd make love to her vigorously and passionately he thought as mind delved into deeper contemplations that sent a tingling, erotic surge into every…

— Jill Thrussell

“He had lost that privilege of simple nature, the dissociation of love and pleasure. Pleasure was no longer as simple as eating; it was…

— Thornton Wilder

“With other women he had not been able to touch their flesh without experiencing the desire to devour it, as though ravenous with an…

— Émile Zola

“There was great hunger and rough dominance, but all of that was mediated by a wellspring of consideration and caring. It was the yin…

— J.R. Ward

Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the…

— Honore de Balzac

She understood his passion because she felt the same way: as if nothing was more important than the touch of her skin to his,…

— Patricia Briggs

“She was bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. She was his soul mate and his wife, and all he wanted was…

— Sylvain Reynard

“I think she would have preferred being spared from understanding all the physical signals one hopes the world will notice and reward with caresses.…

— Erik Valeur