“But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?”

— Mary Balogh

Source: Then Comes Seduction

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Welsh-Canadian novelist 1944

Stephanie Laurens (1943) Australian writer

Source: The Edge of Desire

“No one cared what she wanted. No one had ever cared. And perhaps, worst of all, no one ever would care.”

Kate DiCamillo (1964) American children's writer

“One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.”

Diane Setterfield book The Thirteenth Tale

Source: The Thirteenth Tale

“Look, if you had one shot or one opportunity to seize everything you ever wanted in one moment, would you capture it, or just let it slip?”

Eminem (1972) American rapper and actor

"Lose Yourself".
2000s, 8 Mile (2002)

“I am obsessed with you, angel. Addicted to you. You're everything i've ever wanted or needed, everything i've dreamed of. You're everything. I live and breathe you. For you.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Variant: I'm obsessed with you, angel. Addicted to you. You're everything I've ever wanted or needed, everything I've ever dreamed of. You're everything. I live and breathe you. For you.
Source: Reflected in You

“I love you, Gabby, more than you'll ever know. You're everything I've ever wanted in a wife. You're every hope and every dream I've ever had, and you've made me happier than any man could possibly be. I don't ever want to give that up. I can't.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Choice

Source: The Choice

“Everything hurt. I closed my eyes, pressing my cheek to the street, and waited. What for, I didn't know. To be rescued. Or found. But no one came. All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

“The world's not what I want it to be. But then no one ever said I had the right to design the world.”

Norman Mailer (1923–2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate

TIME interview (1991)
Context: It's a misperception of me that I am a wild man — I wish I still were. I'm 68 years old. The rage now is, oh, so deep it's almost comfortable. It has even approached the point where I can live with it philosophically. The world's not what I want it to be. But then no one ever said I had the right to design the world.

“Sometimes he had indulged in daydreams about finding someone. More often, though, he had tried to adjust to what he sincerely believed was the inevitable — that he was actually the only one left in the world. At least in as much of the world as he could ever hope to know.”

Richard Matheson book I Am Legend

Source: I Am Legend (1954), Ch. 13

“It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

“But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?”

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