Orson Scott Card Quotes on Desire
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The strangest thing about humans is the way they pair up, males and females. Constantly at war with each other, never content to leave each other alone. They never seem to grasp the idea that males and females are separate species with completely different needs and desires, forced to come together only to reproduce.
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When did I first start wanting him to love me?
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As if the universe were created to serve him, with all the people in it tuned to resonate his desires
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Does [he] imagine that I could desire a mere woman, when [she] is my wife?
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Wishful thinking gives false gods to people who hunger for gods, but those who yearn for a world with no gods are no less likely to fall victim to their own wishful thinking
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He was close to her hour after hour, the smell of her, the touch of her breath on the hairs of his arms or on his ears as she leaned over his shoulder to watch. He thought sometimes he might go insane with desire for her; but he could not think of a way to change what lay between them, and though he thought she liked him well enough now, he still didn't know if their friendship was yet the thing a marriage should be made of. Do you love me? He wanted to ask her, to demand of her. But fearing the answer would be a wan 'I'm sorry, Ivan,' he did not speak
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There was beauty to him that for just a moment stirred in her a kind of recognition, perhaps a desire; the thought passed through her mind, is this how angels look, beneath their robes, shed of their wings?
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I didn't wish [her] dead, actually. I just wished her gone.
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Surely a balance between two hungers leaves both satisfied.
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But could he blame her for being glad that she didn't have to choose? Glad that she could have both?
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They were gnawed within by the grief of knowing that this greatest gift of all gifts was forever out of their reach.
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Afraid because his eyes still looked at her and said, mine, and because somewhere in her was something that answered, impossibly, yours
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Why are you at war with yourself? I want things that I do not want to want. Please leave me But why shouldn't you have what you want?
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Why bother coming up with more excuses when she knew the truth : that god had answered her prayer, not with the thing she asked for, but rather the thing she wanted most in her heart
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Savanna had said, 'Come back soon. Come back while you're still young enough to want me. For I'm going to be young forever' I wasn't young anymore, not by any definition of the word. But I wanted her. Perhaps I only wanted the innocence of the children we had been, making love beside the river, oblivious to the pain that could and surely would come to them. Still, I wanted her more than I wanted anyone else in the world, not because my passion was so overwhelming, but because all the other things I wanted were either painfully accomplished or so hopeless that I had given up on them. Only she was left
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Only maybe he did get it. The joke wasn't men, the joke was people who didn't know what they wanted to give or get and so kept disappointing and being disappointed.
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The one thing I can't have in all this world is [her]. But she's what I've wanted, all day, all month, all these years
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Hello, I'm a multimillionaire who is pathologically lonely and so filled with pent-up longings that you have only to think of a desire and I'll satisfy it. Mind if I come in?
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He wouldn't mind a bit if it kept going like this pretty much for the rest of his life
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The ways of love are strange and hard: the love you want is always barred; the love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange
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Do what I want. Well, that's great advice. But what if the thing I want most in all the world can't be done?