#desire

"[novan]: bassists are very good with their fingers[novan]: and some of us sing backup vocals, so that means we're good with our mouths too...(~ IM chat with Novan Chang, 18, bassist)"

"I remember being surrounded by the heaven-sent scent of July pine in the Rockies, as you and I laughed and danced like the snow would never come. Now, as the snow covers everything, just like I in these sheets, I close my eyes, preparing myself to see you again, my summer queen.-Jarod Kintz and Tanzy Sayadi"

"Wars fought over a face like this,” he murmured like he was talking to himself, my heart stopped beating and his thumbs moved lightly across my cheeks. “A man would work himself into the ground for it, go down to his knees to beg to keep it, endure torture to protect it, take a bullet for it,” his eyes came to mine, “poison his brother to possess a face like this."

"There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it."

"He made me feel unhinged . . . like he could take me apart and put me back together again and again."

"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."

"If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires."

"I began to realize what everyone in the world knows and routinely forgets: that to be loved sexually is to be loved not for one's actual self but for one's ability to arouse desire in the other...Only the thoughts in one's mind or intuitions of the spirit can attract permanently..."

"People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don’t have it, you cant give it."

"Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax."

"When you desire to help, you will find a way to do it."

"I live for sex. I celebrate it, and relish the electricity of it, with every fibre of my being. I can see no better reason for being alive."

"If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."

"I don’t want my love with her to wither like grapes on a vine, so I’ll water it with romance to turn it into wine."

"Let me lose everything on earth and the world beyond, but let me not lose what I'm craving for, let it be that i died on the way than retreating from getting it."

"If you want me, you’d better hurry. Act now, supplies are limited."

"INTENT reveals desire; ACTION reveals commitment."

"I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success."

"What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery."

"Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee."