Desiree Quotes

“A kiss is such an amazing thing -- So simple, so complex. The only human act that gives while it receives. Mouth to mouth, it almost seems the eating of one another. Maybe that’s all we are, food for each other. Why, I believe there’s a poem in there somewhere. Another kiss to inspire my muse, Desirée, and I’ll tell you something else you don’t know.”
― Ken Goldman, Desiree

“Perhaps I was hosting my own personal sexual revolution. You know the kind that will not be televised.”
― Sabrina Childress, Those Necessary Thorns: Desiree Elizabeth Taylor

“Now I'm going to have my dinner. Unless you'd like me to further kick your mangy ass.”
― Nalini Singh, Wild Embrace

“I’m sallow-Mama Alice says olive-and I have straight black hair and crooked teeth and no real chin, which is okay because I’ve already decided nobody’s ever going to kiss me.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Shoggoths in Bloom and Other Stories

“It’s dark here behind the dumpster.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Shoggoths in Bloom and Other Stories

“Wouldn’t it be awful to have wings that didn’t work? Wouldn’t it be worse to have wings that do work, and not be able to use them?”
― Elizabeth Bear, Shoggoths in Bloom and Other Stories

“Your name is Darkness. You told me. You said you wanted me, Celaeno.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Shoggoths in Bloom and Other Stories