“The appetites of the body were private battles.”
“Desire is the kind of thing that eats you and leaves you starving.”
“All I wanted was to share myself with him...in a love way, lust way, every kind of way.”
“It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it.”
“Maps are dreams: both describe desire, where you want to go, but never the reality of the destination.”
“It’s impossible to screw up when you trust your sensuality.”
“Prayer is the soul s sincere desire. Your desire is your prayer. It comes out of your deepest needs and it reveals the things you want in life.”
“Stupid kissing. Stupid roaming hands. Stupid boys.”
“Hell is having arms but no one to embrace.”
“We deceive ourselves when we deny our desires”
“Sensuality is measured by the level of your hunger, not by the level of your indulgence.”
“Be very careful what you try with that. I’m not as strong as I should be.” His breath was ragged, and irregular. “And you are stronger than you know.”
“A truly sensual woman is the kind of woman only a man with a deep soul can intoxicate and satiate.”
“If you don t feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great.”
“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
“I got my heart s desire, and there my troubles began.”
“If I ever go looking for my heart s desire again, I won t look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn t there, I never really lost it to begin with.”