Sarah Waters Quotes

I want - I want - I want - was all that she could think about - but just what this real want was she did not know.

My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.

We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.

Behavioral psychologists have observed that wanting something has a much stronger emotional impact than the pleasure that comes once you have it, or the memory of having had it.

I'm very impatient, and I'm very curious.

I think for me I'm always... I find myself to be a very curious person when something interests me and I find that I'm attracted to that mystery.

I'm a naturally curious person.

My goal is always to leave you slightly wanting more.

Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.

there is no reason why anyone should understand how it works… and of course no reason why anyone should care … unless you are curious, in which case I love you, for curiosity about the world and all its corners is a beautiful thing.

I wonder why. I wonder why. I wonder why I wonder.

Wonder is not precisely knowing.

I have no idea,' he tells her, and there is such a spark in his eye when he says it, she can tell having no idea is exactly the way he wants it.

It's wanting that gets so many folks in trouble.

I love not knowing. It keeps me guessing.

My mate Karl once told me he’d been looking after this five-year-old boy who – not knowing enough to have an ironic inflection to his words – said, ‘I want something.’ He didn’t know what it was. Not ‘I want sweets’, or ‘a can of Coke’, or ‘to watch the Tweenies’, or whatever it is they’re into now (I like Bagpuss), but ‘I want something.’ All of us, I think, have that feeling. And what heroin does when you first start taking it is tell you what that something is.

People of a lively imagination are generally curious, and always so when a little in love.

I am going to tell you a secret. Everything is about wanting. Everything. Things happen because of people wanting. Watch closely, and you’ll see what I mean.

When someone covets something they desire and lust over it.Usually it's something they can't have. You've always had that problem.

I never knew what I wanted, except that it was something I hadn't seen before.

The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.