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    James Dashner
    “i felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn't need to run to the mirror to know they were gone”
    ― James Dashner, The Scorch Trials
    tags: absence, alone, breakup, broken, day, felt, forgive, gone, her, i, i-love-you, in, it, know, like, loneliness, lonely, mirror, miss, mouth, need, no, one, run, sad, separated, sorry, teeth, the, they, to, up, waking, want, was, were, with, wouldn-t, you, your
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    Donna Tartt
    “Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.”
    ― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
    tags: self-destruction, want, wanting
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    Sara Gruen
    “I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin.

    I want.”
    ― Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants
    tags: desire, obsession, want
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    Lionel Shriver
    “A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.”
    ― Lionel Shriver, Checker and the Derailleurs
    tags: jealousy, materialism, want, yearning
    529 likes

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  • #5
    Lisa Kleypas
    “The question, love, is whether you want me enough to take the risk.”
    ― Lisa Kleypas, Mine Till Midnight
    tags: love, risk, want
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    Holly Black
    “That’s what comes of hungering for something; you forget to check if it’s rotten before you gobble it down”
    ― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince
    tags: hunger, need, want
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  • #7
    “Lift your hips for me, love.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me
    tags: finally, god, juliette, love, sex, sexy, want, warner
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    Richelle E. Goodrich
    “All I ever wanted from you was to know that I was wanted by you.  That would have changed everything.”
    ― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
    tags: desire, fate, need, richelle, richelle-goodrich, want, wanting
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    Federico García Lorca
    “To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
    ― Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma
    tags: desire, punishment, unrequited-love
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  • #10
    Dan Brown
    “Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”
    ― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code
    tags: desire, fear, human-nature
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez
    tags: desire, loneliness, love, lust, passion, sex
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  • #12
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: desire, love
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
    tags: desire, longing, love
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  • #14
    “I desire to be with you. I miss you. I feel lonely when I can't see you. I am obsessed with you, fascinated by you, infatuated with you. I hunger for your taste, your smell, the feel of your soul touching mine.”
    ― Jack Llawayllynn, Indulgence
    tags: desire, gay, love, m-m, male-male, obsession
    599 likes

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    Sylvia Plath
    “I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: enthralled, obsession, slavery
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  • #16
    Rainbow Rowell
    “«Nobody gets enough,» she said. «Nobody gets what they need. When you always hungry, you get hungry in your head.» She tapped her forehead. «You know?»”
    ― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
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  • #17
    “Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it.”
    ― Swedish Proverb
    tags: inspirational, life, love, quotes, swedish-proverb
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