Quotes about want
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“To belong to someone—I didn’t know it, but now that I think about, it seems like that’s all I’ve ever wanted. To really be somebody’s, and to have them be mine.”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Thinking

“With a sigh she reached into her pocket and drew out a small velvet bag, which upended on the table. Two gold rings fell out, landing with a soft clink. Simon looked at them puzzled. "You want to get married?”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“You must admit I have a right to live in a pigsty if I want.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

“So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me… everyday.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

Heart Touching

“I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it”

Yoko Ono (1933) Japanese artist, author, and peace activist

“You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.”

Cheryl Strayed book Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Love, People, Time

“I didn't want to see you."
"They told me."
"I was afraid that I'd still love you."
"I hoped that you would.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

Love, Hope

“To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!”

Louis-ferdinand Céline (1894–1961) French writer

People, Music, Hell, Reality

“Everything man does today to be efficient, to fill the hour? It does not satisfy. It only makes him hungry to do more. Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time. When you are measuring life, you are not living it.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Source: The Time Keeper

Life, Time

“If I could have anything I wanted, I would choose story without end, and it seems I have lots of company in that.”

Annie Barrows book The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Source: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“I don't want people to know me. I want them to believe my version.”

William Shatner (1931) Canadian actor, musician, recording artist, author, and film director

People

“Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it away all that's left is some story in a history class.”

Scott Westerfeld book Uglies

Source: Uglies

History, Dependency

“Everything you want in life has teeth.”

Jonathan Carroll book From the Teeth of Angels

Source: From the Teeth of Angels

Life

“Wow,” said Adrian. He sat down on the bed and tested its bounciness, giving it a nod of approval. “This is amazing. What do you think, buttercup?”

“I have no words,” I said honestly.

He patted the spot beside him. “Want to try it out?”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

Thinking

“Waddya want me to do? through my sling shot at him?”

Shirley Hughes (1927) English children's writer and illustrator

“You're Valentine's son. I'm sure you're the one the Queen really wants to see. Besides, you're charming. Maybe not at the moment.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“Everyone wants to feel loved, but when all you feel is alone it's tough to accomplish anything else.”

Glenn Beck (1964) U.S. talk radio and television host

Source: The Christmas Sweater

Love, Feeling

“I want to love you and take you pretty places. Yes, I have things wrong, but also I can walk through walls if you'll let me show you.”

Daniel Handler book Adverbs

Source: Adverbs

Love

“You have succeeded in life when all you really WANT is only what you really NEED.”

Vernon Howard (1918–1992) American writer

Life, Life

“I want to be first. I know that’s selfish, and maybe unattainable, and maybe shallow. But I just want to come first with someone. If that’s wrong of me, so be it. I’ll be wrong. But that’s the way I feel.” (Sookie Stackhouse)”

Charlaine Harris book From Dead to Worse

Source: From Dead to Worse

Way, Feeling, Selfishness

“Laugh all you want and cry all you want and whistle at pretty men in the street and to hell with anybody who thinks you're a damned fool!”

Armistead Maupin book More Tales of the City

Source: More Tales of the City

Men, Fools, Hell, Thinking

“I want - I want - I want - was all that she could think about - but just what this real want was she did not know.”

Carson McCullers book The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Thinking

“I'm beginning to realize that things don't turn out the way you want them to. And sometimes, when they don't they can turn out just a little bit better.”

Melina Marchetta book Looking for Alibrandi

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

Way

“The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want”

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

World

“He loved her.
He wanted her.
He needed her.
And he needed her now.”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: Just Like Heaven

Love

“I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.”

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

Source: The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald

World

“Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.”

Stephen King Dreamcatcher

Source: Dreamcatcher

“She knew she shouldn't feel that way about a monster, but right then, she wanted nothing more than a monster of her very own.”

Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Way, Feeling

“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

Time

“Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

Happiness, Hope, Patience

“Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.”

Dorothy Day (1897–1980) Social activist

“I'll bet he was myrrh. Bastard, he brings the cheapest gift and now he wants to sodomize me.”

Christopher Moore book Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

“Everyone wants to grow up to be a faerie princess. Trust me, It's overrated”

Laurell K. Hamilton A Kiss of Shadows

Source: A Kiss of Shadows

Princess

“I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.”

David Levithan book Every You, Every Me

Source: Every You, Every Me

“you dont see me, now you do, but only if i want you to”

Scott Westerfeld (1963) American science fiction writer

“Unbelievable," I said. "First you wanted to hide her away to keep you alive. Now you actually want her out in the world to use her compulsion for your own psycho plans.”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

World

“The real tragedy of our postcolonial world is not that the majority of people had no say in whether or not they wanted this new world; rather, it is that the majority have not been given the tools to negotiate this new world.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Half of a Yellow Sun

Source: Half of a Yellow Sun

People, World

“SPENCER: Hide and seek was my favorite game with Melissa. You want to know why? I always won.”

Sara Shepard Pretty Little Liars

Source: Pretty Little Liars

Game

“I had to feign interest in all this nonsense until I could ask when I could come over and sit on his face. I didn't say that out loud, of course. I never say the things I really want to. If I did, I'd have no friends.”

Chelsea Handler (1975) American comedian, actress, author and talk show host

Source: My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands (2005)

“I wanted to rub handprints through his dust”

Naomi Novik book Uprooted

Source: Uprooted

“Her memory's your love. You want no other.”

Henry James book The Wings of the Dove

Source: The Wings of the Dove

Love, Memory

“Sometimes things don't turn out the way you want them to, Haven. Sometimes the people you choose to believe are wrong.”

Sarah Dessen book That Summer

Source: That Summer

People, Way

“I don’t want to throw everything away for something uncertain.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Variant: I don’t want to know anything, and I want to know it all
Source: Every Day

“We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would, except it would put them on the same side as the United States.”

Ann Coulter (1961) author, political commentator

War, Fight

“And mostly all I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other people to listen to them, and get cross when these other people don't like them as much as I do.”

Nick Hornby (1957) English novelist

Love, People, Singing

“He didn't want to remember anymore. remembering only hurt him… everytime.”

Anthony Horowitz book Raven's Gate

Source: Raven's Gate

Hurt

“It’s easy to want peace and love in hypothetical situations—then reality sets in, and sometimes we have to do what’s ugly.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Thorn Queen

Love, Peace, Reality

“You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.”

Isabel Allende book The House of the Spirits

Source: The House of the Spirits

“She pulled the bedclothes up as far as they would go and suppressed a perverse wish to have her old nurse come to chase away the darkness, perverse because she didn't know if she wanted the shadows to be empty or not.”

Megan Whalen Turner The Queen of Attolia

Source: The Queen of Attolia

“And he saw it in her eyes. Still. The belief that there could be someone other than herself. You, he wanted to shout. You. No one but you.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Froi of the Exiles

“I know you'll think this is crazy, but all I want to do is hold you, and I think that if you'll let me do that just for a few seconds, I can walk away, and never speak to you again.”

David Guterson book Snow Falling on Cedars

Source: Snow Falling on Cedars

Thinking

“Max: "Okay guys, I had a couple thoughts I wanted to go over with you."
Iggy: (pretends to snore loudy)
Max: (throws another pinecone at him)
Iggy: "Quit throwing things at me!"
Max: "Glad you could join us.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Final Warning

Guy

“I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.”

Jennifer Egan A Visit from the Goon Squad

Source: A Visit from the Goon Squad

Death, Art

“Ceres wanted a united front in the plant war."
"The plant war," Percy said. "You're going to arm all the little grapes with tiny assault rifles?”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

War

“If you don't want to have sex, I don't want to talk about our feelings."
He scrubbed his hand through his hair, looking confused. "Well, that's for damn sure the first time a woman's ever said that to me.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Blue-Eyed Devil

Sex, Feeling, Time

“There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.”

Joseph Conrad book Heart of Darkness

Source: Heart of Darkness

Death, Hate, World, Forgetting

“Work. Like pain, I sensed that this was an experience I would want to avoid as often as possible.”

Joanne Harris book The Gospel of Loki

Source: The Gospel of Loki

Pain, Sense

“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

Pleasure

“News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.”

Evelyn Waugh book Scoop

Source: Scoop (1938)

Reading, Dead

“Look, Mother, I am never going to be thin.
I'm Norwegian. If you wanted a thin daughter, you should not have married a man whose female ancestors carried cows home from the pasture”

Jennifer Crusie book Bet Me

Source: Bet Me

Home, Daughters

“It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn’t want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

Perfection

“The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, truly wants, and I'll tell you who they are, and how to persuade them.”

Max Barry (1973) Australian writer

Source: Lexicon

Personality

“„You,” the female on the bed said, her timbre shaded with irrittion. „New guy. Angel Boy. Colonel Curls, or whatever you want to be called. I'm done asking, so now I'm commanding. Free me.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: Wicked Nights

Angels, Guy, Boy

“I, the man of color, want only this: That the tool never possess the man. That the enslavement of man by man cease forever. That is, of one by another. That it be possible for me to discover and to love man, wherever he may be.”

Frantz Fanon book Black Skin, White Masks

Source: Black Skin, White Masks

Love, Color

“What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?”

Toni Morrison book Jazz

Source: Jazz

World, Way

“If he still isn’t giving you what you want, the question to ask yourself is whether you really want him.”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl-A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

Question

“Marriage is about compromise, it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Wedding

Jane Lewis, Chapter 8, p. 130
Source: 2000s, The Wedding (2003)

Marriage, Personality

“Whenever a woman requires too many things from a man, he’ll resent it. Let him give what he wants to give freely; then observe who he is.”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl-A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

“I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it may be another hundred before we meet again.”

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

“You see, I do not want a body without a heart.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

Heart

“I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

Happiness, Truth

“I don't believe in Heaven or anything. But I want to be the kind of person that qualifies for entry anyway.”

Nick Hornby book How to Be Good

Source: How to Be Good

Personality

“Ford!" he said, "there's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script forthey've worked out.”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“I don’t want the world. I want you,” Alec said, and Magnus closed his eyes, as if the words almost hurt.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

World, Hurt

“You and I were different. We came from different worlds, and yet you were the one how taught me the value of love. You showed me what it was like to care for another, and I am a better man because of it. I don't want you to ever forget that.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

Love, World, Forgetting

“When she wanted to escape her life, she read books”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Between the Lines

Life, Books, Reading

“If he's forgotten me, I'll make him remember me. I'll make him want me again.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.”

Ernest Hemingway book For Whom the Bell Tolls

Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls

War

“… a full moon shimmered over central Louisiana. This was no rinky-dink moon. This was a moon you had to curtsy to. A big, heavy, mysterious, beautiful, bossy moon. The kind you want to serve things to on a silver platter.”

Rebecca Wells book Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Source: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Beauty

“I had carried on when all I wanted was to be dead. I had stayed alive for other people. I never stayed alive for myself. I cannot begin to describe the intensity of that effort.”

Sally Brampton (1955–2016) British writer

Source: Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression

People, Effort, Dead

“Some guys look at you like they only want sex. Jace looks at you like you've had sex - it was great and now you're just friends. Drives girls crazy. Know what I mean?" Yes. Clary thought. "No." Clary said.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Sex, Guy, Girl

“Okay, Shane," Agnes said as Brenda's clock gonged midnight. "I got Joey in the kitchen, a cop in the front hall, a dead body in the basement, and you in my bedroom. Where do you want to start?”

Jennifer Crusie (1949) American writer

Source: Agnes and the Hitman

Dead

“Things do not always happen the way I would have wanted, and it's best that I get used to that.”

Paulo Coelho book Like the Flowing River

Source: Like the Flowing River

Way

“I want to live like music sounds."- Ruth”

Eva Ibbotson book The Morning Gift

Source: The Morning Gift

Music

“Why have you chosen to spare me?”
“I want us to be…what is your word? Friends.”
“Psychotic rapists don’t have friends.”
“I was unaware you were a psychotic rapist or I would not have offered.”
“Ha.” I’d set myself up for that one.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Variant: I want us to be... what is your word? Friends."
"Psychotic rapists don't have friends."
"I was unaware you were a psychotic rapists or I would not have offered."
(Mac & V'lane)
Source: Bloodfever

“Not wanting anyone to pop my bubble by speaking to me, I immediately began reading Lesbian Nuns, and that did the trick. No one attempted small talk.”

John Waters (1946) American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer

Source: Crackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters

Reading

“Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.”

James Allen book As a Man Thinketh

Source: As a Man Thinketh

Men, Attitude

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”

Aldous Huxley book Brave New World

Variant: I want God, I want poetry, I want danger, I want freedom, I want sin.
Source: Brave New World

God, Freedom

“What term do you employ when you speak of your progenitor?"
I answered with the term I'd always wanted to employ.
"Sonovabitch."
"To his face?" she asked.
"I never see his face."
"He wears a mask?"
"In a way, yes. Of stone. Of absolute stone.”

Erich Segal book Love Story

Source: Love Story

Way

“There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out, but I'm too tough for him.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Heart

“Every time you have to make a choice about anything, think "Does this go toward or away from what I want?" Always choose what goes toward what you want.”

Barbara Sher (1935) American writer

Source: I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It

Thinking, Time

“So why did you want to kiss me?"
"We're friends aren't we?" Callum shrugged.
I relaxed into a smile. "Of course we are."
"And if you can't kiss your friends who can you kiss?" Callum smiled.”

Malorie Blackman Noughts & Crosses

Source: Noughts & Crosses

Smile, Kiss

“They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves.”

Margaret Atwood book Surfacing

Source: Surfacing

Peace

“If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.”

Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer

World, Change

“It doesn't sound so far-fetched, right? When two people love each other? While a part of me still wants to believe it's possible, I know it's not going to happen”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

Love, People, Parting

“Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Angel Experiment

“She was a nice little girl, simple and true, and tremendously frightened of sex. I told her it was beautiful. I wanted to prove this to her. She let me prove it, but I was too impatient and proved nothing.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

Beauty, Sex, Girl

“What sucks the worst is… this world was a gift to us, and we broke it, and part of the deal is that if we want things right, we have to fix it ourselves. But we can't. We try, but we can't.”

Dean Koontz book Forever Odd

Source: Forever Odd

World, Parting

“Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men.”

Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon

Source: Flowers for Algernon (1966)

Men

“I want a relationship i can finally sink my teeth into”

Ellen Schreiber book Vampire Kisses

Variant: I want a relationship I can finally sink my teeth into.
Source: Vampire Kisses

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Quotes about want
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