“It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.”

“My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had. But my mind knows the difference between wanting what you can’t have and wanting what you shouldn’t want. And I shouldn’t want you.”

“I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more than valuable. I repeat my former name; remind myself of what I once could do, how others saw me. I want to steal something.”

“The heart wants what the heart wants," she says, somewhat cryptically. I purse my lips in disapproval. "You'd think the heart would know better.”

“What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid. I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want.”

“I never wanted to be a star,
I never wanted to travel far
I only wanted a little bit of love
So I could put a little love in my heart”

“What the hell was it I wanted to buy, I wonder, that was worth—Well no matter. It's a late day for regrets.”

“I never think about what I want. It's about what you want to give to other people.”

“Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.”
Emas non quod opus est, sed quod necesse est. Quod non opus est, asse carum est.

“I want to see what is there in the heart! Natural curiosity!”