Desire Quote by Paul Russell Download Open image ““All desire, Tracy had had occasion since to think, is to some degree monstrous.”” — Paul Russell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Monstrous
“How instant it was, desire. It was like a bomb exploding, fragmenting and igniting all her nerve endings.” — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“As he looked at her, she felt that flood of restlessness that she now knew was called desire.” — Shelly Thacker Copy Share Image
“Shane felt a jolt of heat, a desire that threatened to overwhelm rational thought. And perhaps for the moment that was all right.” — Rebecca York Copy Share Image
“Coming abruptly, and without giving me time to trace it accurately to its source among so many ideas of a very different kind, the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“And then it was all happening, what had started to happen at least twice before. Feelings so sweet and strong she could hardly bear… — L.J. Smith Copy Share Image
“He had yet to discover what destroyed that desire. But he did not dwell on it. He thought rather of whatever had happened to… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Desire had never done anything good in her life, so she had divorced it years ago.” — Talena Winters Copy Share Image
“[. . .] and in addition to the feeling of being full there was another more terrifying one, as if a hundred appetites were… — Steven Levenkron Copy Share Image
“Later he would ponder the relation between our extreme desire for something and our ability to realize it- was what we wanted inevitably brought… — Alaa Al Aswany Copy Share Image
“She had longed for adventure, and now that it was happening to her, she was not sure how she felt about it.” — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
“Currents of desire and excitement that she had not known or thought about for years now flooded in her. She wanted him to bring… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
“Her great desire, in fact, was to have something more solid, more tangible than love to rely upon.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“People always knew more than you gave them credit for. Perhaps, in the end, no one had any secrets at all.” — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
“If it was to be a time of momentous changes, then why not allow oneself to be swept along?” — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
“Were archaeologists really such a sex-starved lot as all that? Did pigs really sweat?” — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
“Everything I say is right. "Everything I say is wrong. There are many conflicting opinions in this industry. Don't take one person's word as… — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
“If certain places you came to in life felt right, then how many others were just as clearly the wrong place to be?” — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
“Shirtless, they’d stretch out in the long grass and take the healing brunt of a noontime sun that gave no clue of the thunderheads… — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
“And now none of it could be undone. That was the exquisite irony: the act that had undone everything could not itself be undone.” — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
“Why not simply surrender to one’s doom, since one was so clearly, so spectacularly, doomed?” — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
“Was it a form of madness, no longer to be able to trust your sense of things? To be betrayed by decisions apparently arrived… — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
“The body was an organic machine, period, and God was a figment of its fitful imagination.” — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
“Soon would come the night in which there was no more work – not the work of the hands, nor the work of the… — Paul Russell 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