Desire Quote by Megan Chance Download Open image ““craving that made the world look hard-edged and brutally lovely. “Would you have”” — Megan Chance ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire
“I had created a life that was bent in service to all my personal cravings.” — Stephanie Danler Copy Share Image
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“I’d never traveled in this world. But I loved this world. And I would love it even more once I learned how to speak its language—for it was my language, a form of address where our deepest longings are smuggled in banter, not because it is safer to put a smile on what we fear may shock, but because the… — André Aciman Copy Share
“I was operating on the unspoken assumption that my inner world would be filled with life, peace, and joy once my external world was… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“I experienced by observing my own body and my own soul that I sorely needed sin, sorely needed concupiscence, needed greed, vanity, and the most shameful despair to learn to stop resisting, to learn to love the world and stop comparing it to some world I only wished for and imagined, some sort of perfection I myself had dreamed up,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share
“Asking why had somehow led me to the thing that I loved—the feeling of moving over the earth, with the earth, the sensation of… — Scott Jurek Copy Share Image
“There wasn't a cloud in my mind, nor did I feel any discomfort, and I hadn't a single unfulfilled desire or craving as far… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“That the world I was in could be soft, lovely, and nourishing was more than I could bear, and so I stood there and… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“It felt like I'd taken everything for granted up until right now, when suddenly my entire world and all in it became precious and… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“...I became aware of the world's tenderness, the profound beneficence of all that surrounded me, the blissful bond between me and all of creation, and I realized that the joy I sought in you was not only secreted within you, but breathed around me everywhere, in the speeding street sounds, in the hem of a comically lifted skirt, in the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share
“I know that western sky. Sometimes when I'm alone painting, a blind lifts and I let my mind drift back. I remember walking out… — Dawn Tripp Copy Share Image
“I kept loving and loving and loving. Every waking hour, I marveled on how these moments would make made me feel. I wanted to… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“The two of you made something so beautiful it changed the way I saw it. I’ll never think of those places the same way… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone, even if… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
[I am more than happy to invite my five favorite fictional characters.]Roland Deschain from Stephen King's Dark Tower series. There's a whole world about… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
Logic only tells us what's there; it can't really address what isn't. Even the most devoted empiricist must admit that we have no hope… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
I love women being the heroes of the piece. There is just something so dramatic and important about this story [The Nightingale ]. — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
I know I'm not normal in this, but [ Severus ] Snape is absolutely my favorite character in the Harry Potter books. He is… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
“There are no white knights, Soph. Not like in your stories. You have to see people for what they are, not what you want… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
Trying to justify a world we don't hold all the answers to is what bedevils the best of us. Sometimes it's better just to… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
“Few men ever wonder such things. They are the center of the world, after all. But women are not so different in what they… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image