“His brain ached with the want of knowing.”

“It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!”

“It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.”

“I want to be the girl with the most cake
He only loves those things because he loves to see them break
I fake it so real, I am beyond fake
And someday you will ache like I ache
Someday you will ache like I ache”

“If you want to kill an intellectual, don't blow his brains out, hire him as a clerk.”

“For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she had, but she knew an emptiness deep inside her, which began to ache.”

“God knows what I thought! Your brain does amazing acrobatics when it doesn't want to believe something.”

“I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this. It's as though for the first time I realize how much just being alive makes my body ache. But I don't want that ache to stop.”

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.”

“If you want to communicate an idea to a man's brain, you must talk to him through his pecker. It's like an ear horn, y'all.”