Desire Quote by Sarah Perry

“They say anticipation makes pleasure more intense.”

— Iris Johansen

“The lobby was at once attractive and bleak, a place meant to impress without creating the desire to linger.”

— Marcus Sakey

“My characters tell me how they feel about other characters and events and they demand that I write it down for them.”

— Lindsay Marene Ordone

“In their opinion, a tragedy with so little plot could not conform with the rules of drama. I enquired whether they were complaining that…

— Jean Racine

“I had come to see, too, that all my characters and I were motivated by the same inspiration. Whather it was power they sought,…

— Jodi Picoult

“She wanted some excitement in her life, real excitement”

— Neil A. Hogan

“I feel myself quite wild with excitement.”

— Bram Stoker

“Excitement - a variety of creative coma - overcame me.”

— Truman Capote

“Permission to be excited and goofy and to have fun.”

— Brené Brown

“I wasn't prepared for the intensity of it.It was like going from blissful emptiness to experiencing a roller coaster of sensations all at once.”

— Alexandra Adornetto

“It was thrillingly comfortable being with Will. But also uncomfortably thrilling.”

— Michelle Dalton

“Even not knowing that yet, she felt an intuitive urgency. What she wanted-- and wanted now-- was to be loved by someone who excited…

— Meg Wolitzer