Wants Quotes (page 267)

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• bad
• little
• job

I am helpless. I am stupid, and all I do is want and need things. My tiny life. My little shit job. My Swedish furniture. I never, no, never told anyone this, but before I met Tyler, I was planning to buy a dog and name it "Entourage."This is how bad your life can get. Chuck Palahniuk

• death
• fear
• understanding

If I wanted death, Edward would give it to me. Because we both understand that it isn't death that we fear. It's living. Laurell K. Hamilton

• mathematics
• learning
• reading

you only learn when you give your whole being to something. When you give your whole being to mathematics, you learn; but when you are in a state of contradiction, when you do not want to learn but are forced to learn, then it becomes merely a process of accumulation. To learn is like reading a novel with innumerable characters; it requires your full attention, not contradictory attention. Jiddu Krishnamurti

• happy
• caring
• care

I don't care about truth. I want some happiness. F. Scott Fitzgerald

• life death
• death
• love

She wanted to find a way to love them in death, because she forgot how to love them in life. Sherman Alexie

• vocation
• writers
• writer

I've discovered my vocation. I want to be a writer. Paulo Coelho

• words
• history
• saying

We all nourish truth with our tongues not in sour-batter words that never take shape nor line-driven stories bent to skirt the edgeof our great exhaustion, desire, and doubt. We all use simply the words of our own livesto say what we really want, to lie spent on our lovers, put teeth to all we hate, to strain the juice of our history between what has been allowed and what has always been denied, the active desire to take hold of the root. Dorothy Allison

• house
• building
• know

Can one build an honest house on dishonest foundation? I do not know. But I do know that I want to try. (Edward Ferrier) Agatha Christie

• encouragement
• eyes
• she

Eager, perhaps, to repay the favor of listening, Sylvia nodded with encouragement. But suddenly she reminded Enid of Katharine Hepburn. In Hepburn's eyes there had been a blank unconsciousness of privilege that made a once-poor woman like Enid want to kick her patrician shins with the hardest-toed pumps at her disposal. It would be a mistake, she felt, to confess anything to this woman. Jonathan Franzen

• expectation
• real
• green

Nobody gave me what I wanted for my birthday! Nobody! What sort of presents do you call these? New shoes, a green sweater and a bunch of stupid toys!"What were you expecting?"Real estate! Charles M. Schulz

• sleep
• boys
• dream

He woke whimpering in the night and the man held him. Shh, he said. Shh. It's okay. I had a bad dream. I know. Should I tell you what it was? If you want to. I had this penguin that you wound up and it would waddle and flap its flippers. And we were in that house that we used to live in and it came around the corner but nobody had wound it up and it was really scary. Okay. It was a lot scarier in the dream. I know. Dreams can be really scary. Why did I have that scary dream? I dont... Cormac McCarthy

• shine
• likes
• want

if you want to shine like sun first you have to burn like it. Adolf Hitler

• evening
• wanting you
• evenings

Even if we all want you here, you don't belong until you decide you do. Stephenie Meyer

• doing
• doing what you want
• you

If you can't do what you want, do what you can. Lois McMaster Bujold

• men
• acceptance
• accept

Accept that, like many men, you have a streak of the homoerotic in you. Why would you, why would anyone, want to be that straight? Michael Cunningham