Quotes about want
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“Yeah, and by the way? How much does it suck that I'm an adult if I kill somebody, and not if I want a beer?”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

“you once liked me, didn't you?, he asked.
LIKED you- I LOVED you. Everybody loved you. You could've had anybody you wanted for the asking.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

Love

“If you want to give yourself a fair chance to succeed, never expect too much too soon”

Po Bronson (1964) American writer

Chance

“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you
want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”

Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer

Fear, Home, Confidence, Courage

“I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“Boo: "Go talk to her."

Callum: "About what?"

Boo: "Anything."

Callum: "You want me to walk up to her and say, 'Are you a ghost?'"

Boo: "I do that."

Callum: "I love it when you get it wrong.”

Maureen Johnson (1973) writer from the USA

Source: The Name of the Star

Love

“Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?”

Edith Wharton book The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth

Books

“I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.”

George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States

Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C. http://www.hud.gov/news/speeches/presremarks.cfm (June 18, 2002) <br class="br">2000s, 2002

War, Peace

“Who does ever get what they want? It doesn’t seem to happen to many of us if any at all. It’s always two people bumping against each other blindly, acting out old ideas and dreams and mistaken understandings.”

Kent Haruf (1943–2014) Novelist

Source: Our Souls at Night

People, Dreams, Idea, Understanding

“Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.”

Terry McMillan (1951) American author

Source: Disappearing Acts

“There will always be those who want to tell you who you are based on your name or the blood in your veins. Do not let other people decide who you are. Decide for yourself.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Tessa Gray, to Clary Fray, pg. 716
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
Context: I feel a kinship with you, too, you who have lost both brother and father. I know you have been judged and spoken of as the daughter of Valentine Morgenstern, and now the sister of Jonathan. There will always be those who want to tell you who you are based on your name or the blood in your veins. Do not let people decide who you are. Decide for yourself. That freedom is not a gift; it is a birthright. I hope that you and Jace will use it.

People

“I want to make sure that the first person you kiss loves you, okay?”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Love, Kiss, Personality

“You said i could call you when i wanted but that you wouldn’t call me. you have to decide where and when, you said. if you leave it up to me i’ll want to see you every day.

At least you were honest, which is more than i can say for me.”

Junot Díaz book This Is How You Lose Her

Source: This Is How You Lose Her

“I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.”

Jean Paul Sartre book Nausea

Source: Nausea

World, Change

“The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or what it thinks you want to hear.”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

Source: Astonishing X-Men, Volume 2: Dangerous

Thinking

“It was probably good you couldn't flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn't want it.”

Ann Brashares book Sisterhood Everlasting

Source: Sisterhood Everlasting

Love

“What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84

Chance

“And also… well… i told them I want to get an apartment with him next year rather than live in the dorms."
What'd they say?"
Over their dead bodies."
What did you say?"
I asked whether they wanted to be burie or cremated.”

Carolyn Mackler (1973) American writer

Dead

“Blay’s head whipped around to his mate. “Really? You asked my dad?” Qhuinn nodded, then started to smile like a mother fucker. “It’s my one and only shot. So I wanted to follow protocol.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover at Last

Smile

“Mother can beat me all she wants, but I haven’t let her take away my will to somehow survive.”

Dave Pelzer (1960) American author

Source: A Child Called "It"

“I want my room to smell just like this." Iggy inhaled deeply as the scents flame-broiled burgers and hot french fries wafted around us.
'it would be an improvement.' I agreed.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Angel Experiment

“Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable.”

Harold Bloom (1930–2019) American literary critic and scholar

“That ones yours, huh?"he asked, pointing to 3A."How come it just says 'Kyle'? Doesnt he have a last name?"
"Kyle wants to be a rock star,"Simon said, heading down the stairs."I think his working the one-name thing. Like Rihanna.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Star, Thinking

“I close my eyes. And i scream. If my whole world is crashing down around me, then I am going to make the sound of the crashing. I want to scream until all my bones break.”

David Levithan book Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

World

“The information you have is not the information you want. The information you want is not the information you need. The information you need is not the information you can obtain. The information you can obtain costs more than you want to pay”

Peter L. Bernstein (1919–2009) American academic

Source: Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

“Oooh," Bex said throwing an arm around my shoulders. "I want one."
Cammie: "They're not puppies.”

Ally Carter Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

Source: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

“It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.”

Ray Bradbury book Something Wicked This Way Comes

Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes

Friendship

“Frequency of sex – Women sometimes wanted; men always needed.”

Nicholas Sparks book At First Sight

Source: At First Sight

Women, Men, Sex

“What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over myself again.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Source: Henry & June

Happiness

“May you get exactly what you want and live long enough to regret it.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of Shadows

“True stories seldom have endings.
I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.”

Frances Hardinge book Fly by Night

Source: Fly by Night

Happiness

“I want life. I want to read it and write it and feel it and live it. I want, for as much of the time as possible in this blink-of-an-eye existence we have, to feel all that can be felt.”

Matt Haig book Reasons to Stay Alive

Source: Reasons to Stay Alive

Life, Feeling, Time, Reading

“You're a man who has suffered and wants revenge,' she said. 'Your heart is dead, your soul is in darkness. The devil by your side is smiling because you are playing the game he invented.”

Paulo Coelho book The Devil and Miss Prym

Source: The Devil and Miss Prym

Smile, Soul, Game, Revenge

“If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb book The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“I don't want to let go, because tonight I'm not looking for anything more than being part of him. Because being part of him isn't just anything. It's kind of everything.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

Parting

“And I flunked anger management the moment I put the counselor through a stone wall. You might want to keep that in mind.
[Thorn]”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Bad Moon Rising

Anger

“He cries. 'Please! I don't want to die.'
I lean over. My hair smothers him.
'Then you should never have been born,' I say.”

Christopher Pike book The Last Vampire

Source: The Last Vampire

“I was aware too how strange adults were, how theirs lives were vaster than they wanted anyone to realize, that they actually stretched on and on like deserts, dry and desolate, with an unpredictable, shifting sea of dunes.”

Marisha Pessl Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Source: Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Sea

“Do you ever just want to take your car out onto the highway and gun the engine as fast
as you can and then close your eyes and see what happens?”

Douglas Coupland (1961) Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and graphic designer

Cars

“They Want You To Be A Docile Apathetic Consumer”

Bill Hicks (1961–1994) American comedian

“Trace cursed. He actually wanted to hit something, but a tree would break his knuckles, he didn't want to put another dent in the truck, and Dare would hit back.”

Lori Foster (1958) American writer

Source: Trace of Fever

Tree

“People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.”

Ken Kesey (1935–2001) novelist

People

“I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes… let it go!”

Gregory Maguire book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Shoe

“The kitchen was just as empty, even the refrigerator gone, the chairs, the table--the kitchen cabinets stood open, their bare shelves reminder her of a nursery rhyme. She cleared her throat. "What would demons," she said, "want with our microwave?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“Happiness isn't wanting what you can get, but wanting what you have.”

Beverly Lewis (1949) American writer

Source: The Judgment

Happiness

“I'm only being cute here. I don't really mean it. I just wanted to make you smile.”

Stephen Chbosky (1970) American writer

Smile

“You've got to be quick on your feet in this world if you want to survive. Though once you know the rules, it is not too hard to play the game.”

Bryce Courtenay The Power of One

Source: The Power of One

World, Game

“I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despaire wasn't a guest, you didn't play its favorite music, find it a comfortable chair. Despair was the enemy."
-white oleander”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

Music, Despair

“Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.”

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author

“The hamster called. He wants his home back.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Final Warning

Home

“I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder; the knowledge that, with just a single taste of him, I was addicted.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

Feeling, Knowledge

“Had she been in town, the two of them would have spent most of the day together, and she didn't want that. Then again, deep down, it was exactly what she wanted, leaving her more confused that she'd been in years.”

Nicholas Sparks book True Believer

Source: True Believer

“More than anything, she wanted to crawl across the bloody sand toward the place where Jace’s body lay, crawl to him and lay down beside him and put her arms around him, even though he was gone.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“Maybe it was wrong, or maybe impossible, but I wanted the truth to be one thing. One solid thing.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

Truth

“But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Source: The Time Keeper

Time, Future, Parting

“Ed?" Ritchie says later. We're still standing in the water. "There's only one thing I want."
"What's that, Ritchie?"
His answer is simple.
"To want.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

Water

“I'm getting really tired of bleeding. Someone stop the world, I want to get off.”

Lilith Saintcrow (1976) American writer

Source: Night Shift

World

“God knows what I thought! Your brain does amazing acrobatics when it doesn't want to believe something.”

Elizabeth Wein book Rose Under Fire

Source: Rose Under Fire

God

“People want to believe that every marriage is perfect balance but it isn't. One person always loves more deeply than the other”

Nicholas Sparks book The Best of Me

Source: The Best of Me

Love, Marriage, People, Personality

“It was completely fifth garde and completely silly and I loved it, because he wasn't afraid to be silly. It was like kissing him first - I could do whatever I wanted and not have to worry what he'd think of me.”

Kelley Armstrong The Gathering

Source: The Gathering

Love, Kiss, Thinking

“And I thought, there was no God, there was only what you wanted.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

God

“When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.”

Mem Fox (1946) Australian academic and children's writer known for picture books

Source: Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever

Parent, Reading

“He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

Life, Way

“If you want to be seen, stand up.
If you want to be heard, speak up.
If you want to be appreciated, shut up.”

Bill Cosby (1937) American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist

“more you drink
more you want”

Jack London (1876–1916) American author, journalist, and social activist

Drink

“Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.”

Dorothy Day (1897–1980) Social activist

“You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want.”

Ann Brashares book Sisterhood Everlasting

Source: Sisterhood Everlasting

Beauty, Time

“You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two and two doesn’t necessarily get you the truth. Two and two equals a voice outside the window. Two and two equals the wind. The living bird is not its labeled bones.”

Margaret Atwood book The Blind Assassin

Source: The Blind Assassin

Truth, Bird

“You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

People, Success

“A wise man once said that we can't make anyone feel or do anything. We can throw things into the wind, but it's up to each person to decide how they want to react, where they want to stand when things fall.”

Jonathan Maberry book Dust & Decay

Source: Dust & Decay

Feeling, Personality

“The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.”

Holly Black book White Cat

Source: White Cat

“And ordering me around is exactly the wrong way to make me do what you want.”

Lilith Saintcrow (1976) American writer

Source: Betrayals

Way

“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

Dreams, Angels