Desire Quote by Melanie Benjamin

“I had no idea what the future held or what waited for me at the end of this grueling journey and yet, somehow, I…

— Leigh Bardugo

“I had turned myself inside out working on the house, and had come to love it; at least, I supposed I loved it. Maybe…

— Dee Williams

“But this was the first time someone he loved would be gone forever. He didn't like to think about the forever part. But when…

— Kevin Henkes

“I had always been alone and wouldn't have minded if it had been a matter of choice. It never had been. I dreamed of…

— Amélie Nothomb

“Still, there was always that wish, that desire to be someone else, somewhere else.”

— Sarah Felix Burns

“I hadn’t wanted to get involved or to accept any personal responsibility….[so] that I would be ready to drop everything at any moment and…

— Ignácio de Loyola Brandão

“Desire had never done anything good in her life, so she had divorced it years ago.”

— Talena Winters

“I inherited this longing. I was addicted to it. And so I was at home with those who wanted and never had enough. I…

— Hannah Lillith Assadi

“He craved silences and solitude. He simply could not get lost in another person’s life.”

— Sreesha Divakaran

“How could I have guessed that I would never really be able to come home?”

— Claudia Poser

“longed for something I couldn’t have, or more appropriately, that I’d never had — except in my dreams.”

— Karice Bolton

“I longed for it in that excruciating way one has of romanticizing the life she didn’t choose.”

— Sue Monk Kidd