“And I don't want to lie
I just know that I need to…
Love.”

“I know I don't need him, but I think I want him.”

Charles Frazier book Cold Mountain

“I think I want to be in love with you but I don't know how.”

Angela Carter The Magic Toyshop

“I love Albuquerque. I've always loved it, and i just couldn't leave it. I don't know if it sounds right, but I think people love that, I'm not going to turn my back on them. I want to be here.”

Al Hurricane (1936–2017) American singer-songwriter

“I love nature, I just don't want to get any of it on me.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

“I don't want clever conversation
I never want to work that hard.
I just want someone
that I can talk to
I want you just the way you are.

I need to know that you will always be
The same old someone that I knew
What will it take till you believe in me
The way that I believe in you.”

Billy Joel (1949) American singer-songwriter and pianist

“If I stopped loving Him, I would cease to believe in His love. If I loved God, then I would believe in His love for me. It's not enough to need it. We have to love first, and I don't know how. But I need it, how I need it.”

Graham Greene (1904–1991) English writer, playwright and literary critic

“I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

“Well, I don't want you to die," Tessa said. "I don't know why I feel it so strongly -- I've just met you -- but I don't want you to die."

"And I trust you," he said. "I don't know why -- I've just met you -- but I do.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

“I don't want your love unless you know i am repulsive, and love me even as you know it.”

Georges Bataille (1897–1962) French intellectual and literary figure