Desire Quote by Holly Black

“As he looked at her, she felt that flood of restlessness that she now knew was called desire.”

— Shelly Thacker

She knew what it felt like to stand in front of someone and ask them to love you, to try to pull them to…

— Sarah Addison Allen

“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

“He'd never thought he would feel that way again. Ready to brave any sorrow just to keep her at his side. Perhaps the impulse…

— Tessa Dare

“He couldn't tear his eyes from her, it took everything he had not to grab her and kiss her. He craved so badly to…

— Erica Stevens

She had never experienced the pain of unsatisfied desire before. It hurt. It hurt like nothing she'd ever felt, and there seemed to be…

— Lisa Kleypas

“All the overpowering blinding, bewildering, first effects of strong surprise were over with her. Still, however, she had enough to feel! It was agitation,…

— Jane Austen

The world was full of beauty. She wanted to grab hold of it and take it down into her bones. Yet always it seemed…

— Sara Zarr

“All she felt was pity, and pity was death to desire”

— George R.R. Martin

She longed to feel something momentous. Sometimes her life seemed so little.

— Liane Moriarty

“She had that feeling again, fleeting as it may be. She’d always wondered what it would feel like to empty the soul from a…

— J.T. Ellison

It occurred to her suddenly, sharply, that she wanted to be in love... She wanted not to feel so damned alone in the world.

— Kristin Hannah