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• I want to protect my own happiness. I'm not an angel. I'm just a normal girl.

  Ai Yazawa

  Girl, Angel, Normal

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• Iggy nodded. “I’m bummed we couldn’t use Big Boy,” he said. “But I don’t want to waste it. We have to actually see them first. I mean, you do.” “Maybe tomorrow,” the Gasman said encouragingly. “We’ll go see what havoc we’ve wreaked.” “Wrought.

  James Patterson

  Mean, Boys, Maybe Tomorrow

  James Patterson (2007). “The Angel Experiment”, Little, Brown and Company

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• I want to be a scientist who studies the ocean when I grow up. I would go out to sea, and scuba dive, and find new things, and National Geographic will hire me.” Sure, Nudge. Probably around the time I become president.

  James Patterson

  Growing Up, Ocean, Sea

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• Did I want a dog? No. Did I need a dog? Also no. We were six kids running for our lives, not knowing where our next meal was coming from. Could we afford to feed a dog? Wait for it—no.

  James Patterson

  Running, Dog, Kids

  James Patterson (2007). “The Angel Experiment”, Little, Brown and Company

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• She wanted to cry, but she did not want Peter to see her cry, and she especially did not want Teacher, with her flowing hair, to see her cry.

  Dave Barry

  Teacher, Hair, Cry

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• There are billions of men in the world, probably millions near my age. Maybe hundreds who are compatible with me. Maybe at least a dozen who would want to date me. There's got to be at least five on the continent whom I could probably marry. So why am I so hung up on this one guy?

  Regina Doman

  Men, Guy, Age

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• I am so afraid of people's words.They describe so distinctly everything: And this they call dog and that they call house, here the start and there the end. I worry about their mockery with words, they know everything, what will be, what was; no mountain is still miraculous; and their house and yard lead right up to God. I want to warn and object: Let the things be! I enjoy listening to the sound they are making. But you always touch: and they hush and stand still. That's how you kill.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Dog, People, Worry

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2005). “Pictures of God: Rilke's Religious Poetry Including "The Life of the Virgin Mary"”, Annmarie s Kidder

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• This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love.

  Zadie Smith

  Divorce, People, White Teeth

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.8, Vintage

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• I don't want to rely on something that could be taken away at some point.

  Dorothy Koomson

  Taken, Rely

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• I do my best to limit the amount of compromise in my life so I have more time to do what I want. Not hanging out with many people really helps. I am not a people person and I spend a great deal of time on my own and in this environment, I get a lot done.

  Henry Rollins

  People, Done, Limits

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• Curse us eh/I'll make you pay!/I don't want to rhyme all day!

  Rick Riordan

  Pay, Rhyme, Curse

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• He made a sound of disgust in the back of his throat. "Oh thank you so much. That's what every man wants to hear about his name. You might as well call me 'Little Pecker' while you're at it and tell me you would love to have me go shopping with you for feminine hygiene products. Oh and by all means, carry a big, sparkling pink bag with flowers on it and make me hold it.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Flower, Mean, Men

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• I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.

  Salvador Dali

  Order, Law, Perceive

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• For I did not want him to see, or to question me, for here contains already secrets, and my secrets are my fortune and my sanity.

  Sebastian Barry

  Secret, Sanity, Fortune

  Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.24, Faber & Faber

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• You’re not terrified of me. You’re terrified of letting yourself care for me, and I can’t say I blame you. People who love me usually end up dead. But you see, I’m not going to give you any choice. You belong to me now whether you like it or not.” “I don’t like it, not one bit!” “Try to escape,” he suggested coolly. “Go ahead. See what happens. Give me one excuse to take what I want from you, even if it is against your will. I want you that much. Too damned much.” He turned without warning and kissed her, flattening her back against the pine mast.

  Gaelen Foley

  People, Giving, Choices

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• You wrong yourself and me by assuming my interest in you is purely physical,” he went on. “I told you I am eager to further our acquaintance. I want to know what you think about things. What you want out of life. What you dream. -Lucien to Alice

  Gaelen Foley

  Dream, Thinking, Assuming

  Gaelen Foley (2002). “Lord of Fire”, p.102, Ballantine Books

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• Don't want that, do they?” She throws back her head and shouts, “Whole country in rebellion? Wouldn't want anything like that!

  Suzanne Collins

  Country, Rebellion, Whole

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”, p.270, Scholastic

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• Show, not tell, right? Action, not words. You don’t want to hear how sorry I am or how things will be different this time. You want to see it with your own eyes. And until I can show you that, you won’t tell me what I want to hear.

  Ann Aguirre

  Sorry, Eye, Different

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• I want to learn how to speak Italian. For years, I'd wished I could speak Italian--a language I find more beautiful than roses :)

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Beautiful, Italian, Years

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.24, A&C Black

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• The only reason I lost, the only reason I failed to get what I want, is because the monster is me, there's no difference between us. It makes all the moves, calls all the shots, while I'm just along for the ride, with no idea how to pull the brakes or get off.

  Alyson Noel

  Moving, Ideas, Differences

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• I just want to escape my own body and project sunlight on to the walls for her to see, so she warms up and yearns for my arms.

  Mathias Malzieu

  Wall, Body, Arms

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• We needn't talk about Tessa if you don't want to, you know." "It's not Tessa." This was true. Will hadn't been thinking of Tessa. He was getting good at not thinking about her, really; all it took was determination and practice.

  Cassandra Clare

  Determination, Thinking, Practice

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• The Hindus are not looking for us to send them men who will build schools and hospitals, although those things are good and useful in themselves--and perhaps very badly needed in India: they want to know if we have any saints to send them.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, School, Men

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.240, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What do you want to want to be, anyway?" "I don't know; I guess what I want to be is a good Catholic." "What you should say"--he told me--"what you should say is that you want to be a saint.

  Thomas Merton

  Catholic, Saint, Should

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• Through the damp fabric of my coverall, bundled in my blanket, I feel naked. Raw. He sees more than I want, more than I can bear. It’s like standing before him ... while he stares at my scars, pitiless and unmoved.

  Ann Aguirre

  Naked, Fabric, Bears

  Ann Aguirre (2008). “Grimspace”, p.145, Penguin

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