Then again, you cannot stop the flood of desire as it moves through the world, inappropriate though it may sometimes be. It is the prerogative of all humans to make ludicrous choices, to fall in love with the most unlikely of partners, and to set themselves up for the most predicatable of calamities.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

— Alexander Hamilton

Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.

— Mason Cooley

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

— Thomas Hobbes

When we pour out our miseries, He hears a melody of us needing and desiring what only He can give.

— Stacey Thacker

Her endless, futile attempts to make her feelings known fell on stony ground. Slowly she retreated into the darkness where her dreams became reality and reality faded into the deep recesses of her soul....

— Virginia Alison

..And when he let her go, it was as if she had been filled and didn't realize it until he pulled away and the absence rushed back in.

— Laini Taylor

To see the dawn of a new beginning, You have to make a move in the Night.

— Digvijay Jaiswal

Plucking a rose only proves you desire it, but nurturing it proves you love it.

— Matshona Dhliwayo

It took so long to find you...And now I don't want it to change. I want it all set in amber. I want us and nobody else in the most selfish way you can imagine. I can't help it--I'm old-fashioned. I believe marriage is between a man and a man.

— Armistead Maupin