Want Quotes - Page 38

• They say time is money, but that's not true. Time is life. And if I want the fullest life, I need to find fullest time... the busyness of your life leaving little room for the source of your life... God gives us time. And who has time for God? Which makes no sense.

  Ann Voskamp

  Giving, Leaving, Needs

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• If you want, I can carry you—” “I’m fine,” she said shortly. “Let’s go.” He’d said that wrong. He should have said, “I want to carry you.

  Suzanne Brockmann

  Should Have, Said, Fine

  Suzanne Brockmann (2002). “Out of Control”, p.368, Ballantine Books

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• Dwelling on him would make him a bigger part of my life than I want him to be.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Dwelling, Want Him, Bigger

  Richard Paul Evans (2014). “Richard Paul Evans: The Complete Walk Series eBook Boxed Set: The Walk, Miles to Go, Road to Grace, Step of Faith, Walking on Water”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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• Dead girl walking” the boys say in the halls. “Tell us your secrets” the girls whisper, one toilet to another. "I am that girl. I am the spaces between my thighs, daylight shinning through. I am the bones they want, wired on a porcelain frame.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Girl, Boys, Space

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• I didn’t want to kill girls… even vampire girls. Though I might make an exception for that blonde.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Girl, Twilight, Black

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Breaking Dawn: Twilight”, p.107, Hachette UK

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• Mom put a note in my lunch again, I see... Dear son, I hope you will study hard in summer school... Do not look upon it as a punishment, but rather as a privilege... We are very proud of you, and want you to have a good education. This note will self-destruct in five seconds.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Summer, Mom, School

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• I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality.

  Yann Martel

  Stories, Dry, Surprise

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.336, Vintage Canada

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• ...playing with the Barbie-size keyboard on my new phone. Phones are like toys now. They fit in your pocket, light up and vibrate like joy buzzers. Plus, you can get-I mean, "access"-the Internet and find anything you want. Music. Maps. Porn. Anything. If cell phones came with a cigarette dispenser, they'd be the greatest stupid invention ever.

  Richard Kadrey

  Stupid, Mean, Phones

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• Do you want to go back to Vienna?” he said. Alec didn’t answer, just stared into space. “Or we could go somewhere else,” said Magnus. “Anywhere you want. Thailand, South Carolina, Brazil, Peru – Oh, wait, no, I’m banned from Peru. I’d forgotten about that. It’s a long story, but amusing if you want to hear it.

  Cassandra Clare

  Somewhere Else, Space, Long

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ideas, Soul, Bears

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.251, Oxford University Press on Demand

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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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• 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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• ...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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Imagine if you were the positive pole of a magnet, and you were told that under no circumstances were you allowed to touch that negative pole that was sucking you in like a black hole. Or if you crawled out of the desert and found a woman standing with a pitcher of ice water, but she held it out of your reach. Imagine jumping off a building, and then being told not to fall. That's what it feels like to want a drink.

  Jodi Picoult

  Fall, Jumping, Ice Water

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.316, Simon and Schuster

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