“In a wife I would desire / What in whores is always found / The lineaments of gratified desire.”

“Always without desire we must be found,”

“Christian desire is always excessive, generous beyond what is asked. It is a desire not to consume the other, but to let the other be in the perfection they are called to grow into. It is a desire ultimately founded upon God as triune and, as triune, a community of love fore-given and given lavishly.”

“I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself.”

“But they both agreed that it's always nice to know that your wife is desired by another man, although they wouldn't go any further than that.”

“Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.”