“Phaedra keeps saying she’s being selfish. That she hates herself for it, but she does it anyway. She can’t deny herself what she wants, even if it brings about her downfall and his.” “And have you learned anything from our literary parallel?” “Not really, I keep thinking that she would do it all over again if there were a chance…a chance that it could go right. Even if 99 times out of a 100 the story ends badly, it’s worth it if only once she gets a happy ending.”

“You deserve someone better than me. Someone young and idealistic…someone who can experience things for the first time along with you. I’m not always kind, and I have more faults than I’d care to name. All I can promise is that I’ll want you until my last breath.”

“What do you want?”The question stunned him. He could say he wanted nothing, that he felt like nothing, that he counted the days until darkness. Hecould say: Happiness beyond all worlds! A life of peace and love, entire and whole! He could say he wanted everything and nothing all at once. He thought for a moment, as the birds sang in the trees, of how often he felt like this.”

“Never let the things you want make you forget the things you have.”

“The universe doesn’t give you what you want in your mind; it gives you what you demand with your actions.”

“Because we don’t ‘want’ God in no ways means that we don’t ‘need’ Him. And if we confuse the two, we might get what we want but we will die for lack of what we need.”

“I tell myself that I am what I need. But it is quite evident that what I need is what I’m not. And the greatest thing I’m not is God.”

“To lovers there.Most ladies the reason they are dumped and their relationship doesn’t last is they made themselves to become a want than a need in a relationship.”

“When you want something this badly, you don’t just give up. You fight and fight until you absolutely can’t fight anymore.”

“Lift your hips for me, love.”

“The question, love, is whether you want me enough to take the risk.”

“Somehow, we’ll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.”

“If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder.
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