Giving Quote by Jane Austen

Through the dry phases of calculations in her mind, she noticed that she did have time to feel something: it was the hard, exhilarating…

— Ayn Rand

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

And they did have fun, though it was of different kind now. All that yearning and passion had been replaced by a steady pulse…

— David Nicholls

Had it taken her this long to discover that she lacked some simple mental trick that everyone else had, a mechanism so ordinary that…

— Ian Mcewan

She felt as if she were brimming, always producing and hoarding more love inside her. But there was no release.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.

— Oscar Wilde

This was exactly what the girl had most dreaded all her life and had scrupulously avoided until now: lovemaking without emotion or love. She…

— Milan Kundera

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

— Ovid

Pleasure was a siren, luring her to experience more

— Linda Howard

She wasn't feeling nothing. She was feeling too much. She was blocking it all out. That was a survival skill, and her still-beating heart…

— Rachel Vincent

She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.

— Emile Zola

Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering,…

— George Eliot