“For once in my life
I have someone who needs me,
Someone I needed so long.”

“All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Mermaid Chair

“What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

“There is this lie floating around that says I am supposed to be able to do life alone, without any help, without stopping to worship something bigger than myself. But I actually believe there is something bigger than me, and I need for there to be something bigger than me. I need someone to put awe inside me; I need to come second to someone who has everything figured out.”

Donald Miller book Blue Like Jazz: nonreligious thoughts on Christian spirituality

“I've needed someone like you for a long time. Now that I have you, no one is going to take you from me.

Logan to Madeline”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

“I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with someone even if they could have. I need to know these people exist.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I feel like I am floating in plasma
I need a teacher or a lover
I need someone to risk being involved with me.
I am so vain
and I am so masochistic.
How can they coexist?”

Francesca Woodman (1958–1981) American photographer

“A voice or a song can be so comforting to someone who really needs it.”

Brian Wilson (1942) American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer

“He had found my worst weakness: I was one of those people who was desperate to be needed, to matter to someone.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

“My arm was not what she needed, but the arm of someone else. My warmth was not what she needed, but the warmth of someone else.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood