Meghan O'Rourke Quotes

I don't like things held up before me that I cannot have.

Sydney: Ever had that happen? Once you can’t have something, you want it that much more.” Adrian: “Yes. It happens all the time.

Restriction generates yearning. You want what you cannot have.

You always want what you can’t have.

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

Wasted is when you have a hankering for ice cream.

Sometimes we don't know what we want until we don't get it.

What you want is what you cannot have. What you cannot have is what you want.

Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.

I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

It's hard for me to miss out on a game.

I'm a fan of leaving people hungry; I don't like leaving people satisfied.

What you've never had, you never miss.

I really, really want a golf cart, but I know that won't happen.

Everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.

It hurts to want everything and nothing at the same time.

There are very few things in my life that I can't have if I want them. So when I see something that I can't have, immediately I'm obsessed by it.

He lifts her breasts, which fit perfectly into his hands, though he knows this is no promise that he gets to keep them. A million things you can't have will fit in a human hand.

when you want something so desperately, you shake with the need for it. you tell yourself that you don't need more than one sip, because it's just the taste you crave, and once it's on your tongue you will be able to make it last alifetime. you dream of it at night. you see a thousand mile-high obstacles between where you stand and what you want, and you convince yourself you have the power to hurdle them. you tell yourself this even when, leaping the first block, you wind up bruised and bloodied and flattened.

She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.

It's the ones who resist that we most want to kiss, wouldn't you say?

Regret is distress over a desire unfulfilled or an action performed or not performed.

Desire is poison at lunch and wormwood at dinner; your bed is a stone, friendship is hateful and your fancy is always fixed on one thing.

She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.