Pat Conroy Quotes

Sex deepens love and love deepens sex, so physical intimacy transforms everything and playing with it is playing with fire.

What is love without passion? - A garden without flowers, a hat without feathers, tobogganing without snow.

So sweet and delicious do I become, when I am in bed with a man who, I sense, loves and enjoys me, that the pleasure I bring excels all delight, so the knot of love, however tight it seemed before, is tied tighter still.

O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.

I prefer a kiss that is so much more than just a tongue in your mouth.

The fire and excitement may be gone now that we don't go out there and sing them anymore, but the ring of fire still burns around you and I, keeping our love hotter than a pepper sprout.

Anyone who is observant, who discovers the person they have always dreamed of, knows that sexual energy comes into play before sex even takes place. The greatest pleasure isn't sex, but the passion with which it is practiced. When the passion is intense, then sex joins in to complete the dance, but it is never the principal aim.

A real flame of love is a subtle thing. It burns as a will-o'-the-wisp, dancing onward to fairy lands of delight. It roars as a furnace. Too often jealousy is the quality upon which it feeds.

Until then, mio dolce amor, a thousand kisses; but give me none in return, for they set my blood on fire.

I told her, Don't touch me that way. Don't come at me with that sour-cream smile. Come at me as if I were worth your life - the life we make together. Take me like a turtle whose shell must be cracked, whose heart is ice, who needs your heat. Love me like a warrior, sweat up to your earlobes and all your hope between your teeth. Love me so I know I am at least as important as anything you have ever wanted.

Love is a burning thing and it makes a firey ring.

There was a difference between loving someone and being in love

You can ravish your woman so deeply that her surrender breaks your heart into light.

Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.

She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.

It's about giving the people what they want. So many people have told me that they've made love to my records so what I've delivered this time is an album about sex. Pretty much every song has that theme. Straight no chasers, it's booty music!

Familiarity with your lover is what initially makes sex really good.

Sex is the best high. It's better than any drug. I want to die making love because it feels so good.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.

I endeavor not to conceal that I believe there is a great mixture of desire in the passion which is called love--or rather, without any far-fetched strain on words, it may be called the companion of love.

His gaze held hers, and his voice was tender and rough. “Love me, Elizabeth.” Elizabeth felt a tremor run through her entire body, but she looked at him without flinching. “I do.

If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?

He doesn't have to say it, i feel it too; it's not subtle - like every bell for miles and miles is ringing at once, loud and clanging, hungry ones and tiny, happy, chiming ones, all of them sounding off in this moment. I put my hands around his neck, pull him to me, and then he's kissing me hard and so deep, and i am flying, sailing, soaring.

My passion for Sarah had killed simple lust forever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a woman without love.

Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire Dividing my delight and my desire.