Variant: Do you want any soup?"
"No," said Jace.
"Do you think Hodge will want any soup?"
"No one wants any soup."
"want some soup," Simon said.
"No you dont," said Jace. "You just want to sleep with Isabelle.
Source: City of Bones
“I always want to know the things one shouldn't do."
"So as to do them?" asked her aunt.
"So as to choose." said Isabel”
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Henry James
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The Portrait of a Lady
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