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• But God knows, I don't want anyone but you. I don't even want to want anyone but you.

  Cassandra Clare

  Jace, God Knows, City Of Glass

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.1007, Simon and Schuster

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• Maybe you just never knew what it was like to want something you couldn't have before

  Cassandra Clare

  Want Something

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1009, Simon and Schuster

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• I want to be a monster too

  Stephenie Meyer

  Monsters

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• But if you are single the last thing you want is your best friend forming a functional relationship with somebody else.

  Helen Fielding

  Lasts, Your Best Friend, Ifs

  Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.66, Pan Macmillan

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• I was just wondering if you were armed. You want anything? Dagger, maybe?" He opened his own suit jacket just a bit, and Simon saw something long an metallic glinting against the inside lining. "No wonder you and Jace like each other so much. You're both crazy walking arsenals.

  Cassandra Clare

  Crazy, Long, Daggers

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• Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Night, Men, Honor

  Henrik Ibsen (1917). “A Doll's House: And Two Other Plays”

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• If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me.

  Jodi Picoult

  Littles, Different, Stories

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• ...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.

  Jodi Picoult

  Looks, Look At Me

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• He didn't want her; he wanted me. Well, you know how it is." Dalgliesh did know. This, after all, was the commonest, the most banal of personal tragedies. You loved someone. They didn't love you. Worse still, in defiance of their own best interests and to the destruction of your peace, they loved another. What would half the world's poets and novelists do without this universal tragicomedy?

  P. D. James

  Love You, Tragedy, Half

  P.D. James (2015). “P. D. James’s Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries: Cover Her Face, A Mind to Murder, Unnatural Causes, Shroud for a Nightingale, The Black Tower, and Death of an Expert Witness”, p.807, Simon and Schuster

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• And right this second I want to live in ignorant bliss.

  Simone Elkeles

  Ignorant, Bliss, Ignorant Bliss

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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• I want to live life on my own terms.

  Simone Elkeles

  Live Life, Rules Of Attraction, Term

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Rules of Attraction”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes if you want something badly enough, you can make it happen. If you miss someone so desperately that it wrecks your insides, you say their name over and over until you conjure then. It's called sympathetic magic and you just have to believe in it to make it work.

  Jenny Downham

  Life, Missing Someone, Believe

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• You see, I get such fun out of thinking that I don't want to destroy this most pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Fun, Thinking, Machines

  ""Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character: Adventures of a Curious Character".

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• Our footsteps run, and I don't want them to end. I want to run and laugh and feel like this forever. I want to avoid any awkward moment when the realness of reality sticks its fork into our flesh, leaving us standing there, together. I want to stay here, in this moment, and never go to other places, where we don't know what to say or what to do.

  Markus Zusak

  Running, Reality, Laughing

  Markus Zusak (2007). “I Am the Messenger”, p.155, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Just once I want it to be easy and neat. But no, there is never a good decision. I pick what I can live with.

  Ilona Andrews

  Decision, Easy, Neat

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.220, Penguin

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• I didn’t want to know that the monster that lived under your bed when you were a kid not only really is there but used to have a few beers with your dad.

  Robin McKinley

  Dad, Kids, Beer

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• Are you smelling me?” After yesterday I suspected that my body was giving him all kinds of information I didn't want him to have. “Don't tempt me,” he murmured.

  Deborah Harkness

  Yesterday, Giving, Body

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.75, Penguin

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• Sometimes it's not catastrophic. Sometimes you only come to the bottom of your coffee cup. Sometimes you have a good day. No one wants to know. No one wants to tell you about theirs either. You might somehow take it. Turn it against them. See the flaw. You always tell them the whole thing sucks. It keeps you alive. They figure if you're out there having a rotten time, everything's fine and you're doing your part. No one will ever try to take your bad times away from you but they'll come swarming for your happiness.

  Henry Rollins

  Coffee, Good Day, Trying

  Henry Rollins (2005). “Roomanitarian”, 2.13.61

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• ...because in a way it happened to someone else. I don't really speak that person's language anymore, and when I think about her, she embarrasses me sometimes, but I don't want to forget her, I don't want to pretend she never existed. So before I start forgetting, I have to get down exactly who she was, and exactly how she felt about everything. She was me a lot longer than I've been me so far.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Thinking, Way, Language

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• I mean, who wants to trudge through life, doing everything just right? Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Dream, Mean, Chance

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

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• I want to know about life! I want some real answers..." "Five." "Five?!" "I thought that was a pretty good answer!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Real, Answers, Five

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• My heart is breaking," she says. "I want to be strong for you right now but the thought of you leaving is killing me inside.

  Pittacus Lore

  Strong, Heart, Leaving

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• She reaches up and pulls my face to her and kisses me, her soft lips on mine. I don't want her to stop kissing me. As long as she is, then everything is fine. Everything is right, I would stay in this room forever if I could. The world can pass by without me, without us. Just as long as we can stay here, together, in each other's arms.

  Pittacus Lore

  Kissing, Long, Forever

  Pittacus Lore (2010). “I Am Number Four: (Lorien Legacies Book 1)”, p.194, Penguin UK

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• Ranger Smiled. 'You want me to be Superman? Spend the night with me.

  Janet Evanovich

  Night, Rangers, You Want Me

  Janet Evanovich (2007). “More Plums in One: Four to Score, High Five, and Hot Six”, p.726, Macmillan

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• And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint. As it turns out, kids are more like us than we think: damaged, through and through.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Reader's Companion: A Collection of Excerpts”, p.322, Simon and Schuster

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