Beiwen Zhang (1990) badminton player
"Zhang happy her destiny is in her own hands" in Today Online https://www.todayonline.com/sports/zhang-happy-her-destiny-her-own-hands (17 April 2016)
“I just didn’t want to see myself fall back. I don’t want to disappoint my coaches or my parents.”
"You Can’t Stop Suni Lee" in Elle (29 July 2021) https://www.elle.com/culture/a36503849/suni-lee-olympics-gymnastics-tokyo/
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Sunisa Lee (2003) American artistic gymnast; first Hmong American Olympic gold medalist
"Sunisa Lee, First Hmong American Olympic Gymnast, Talks Achieving Her Dream and Being an Inspiration" in People (29 July 2021) https://people.com/sports/tokyo-olympics-sunisa-lee-first-hmong-american-olympic-gymnast-achieving-her-dream/
Susanna Kaysen book Girl, Interrupted
Girl, Interrupted (1994)
Context: And the college business: My parents wanted me to go, I didn’t want to go, and I didn’t go. I got what I wanted. Those who don’t go to college have to get jobs. I agreed with all this. I told myself all this over and over. I even got a job—my job breaking au gratin dishes. But the fact that I couldn’t hold my job was worrisome. I was probably crazy. I’d been skirting the idea of craziness for a year or two; now I was closing in on it.
Maurice Sendak (1928–2012) American illustrator and writer of children's books
As quoted in "Concerns Beyond Just Where the Wild Things Are" by Patricia Cohen in The New York Times (9 September 2008)
Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer
Variant: If you have reasons for not coming back, I don't want to know them. I just want you to come back anyway
Source: Tiger Lily
“I don’t know if I wanted to top myself or if I just wanted someone to hug me.”
Nigel Benn (1964) British boxer
Reflecting on the troubling times in the past http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/programmes/my_childhood/episode04.shtml
“[cries] I just want my friend back!”
Jack Black (1969) American actor, comedian, musician, music producer
“I didn’t want to scare you. We don’t want to scare anyone.”
Octavia E. Butler book Adulthood Rites
“No? Well, sometimes it’s a good thing to scare people. Sometimes fear is all that will keep them from doing stupid things.”
Part II “Phoenix” chapter 15 (p. 381)
Adulthood Rites (1988)
