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

Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)

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Science Fiction and fantasy author from the USA 1949

Steve Maraboli (1975)

Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 38

“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.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“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.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“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.”

Candace Bushnell book Summer and the City

Source: Summer and the City

“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.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“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”

Cat Stevens (1948) British singer-songwriter

(I Never Wanted) To Be A Star
Song lyrics, Izitso (1977)

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

Eugene O'Neill Long Day's Journey into Night

Act 4 http://books.google.com/books?id=YI8iwzZhl6AC&q=%22what+the+hell+was+it+I+wanted+to+buy+I+wonder+that+was+worth+well+no+matter+it's+a+late+day+for+regrets%22&pg=PT133#v=onepage <br class="br">Long Day's Journey into Night (1955)