“You want everything so much and when you get it it’s over and you don’t give a damn.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“As a teenager, I didn’t want to be me; I wanted to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived inside me and that if I managed to connect with them, they would become aspects of me.”— Marion Cotillard, vogue.com
“All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved.”— Rita Hayworth, huffingtonpost.com
“I want you to come live with me, and die with me, and everything with me.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“One summer night I fell asleep, hoping the world would be different when I awoke.”— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, amazon.com
“I want to feel all there is to feel, he though. Let me feel tired now. I mustn’t forget, I’m alive, I know I’m alive. I mustn’t forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.”— Michelle Williams, elle.com
“It doesn’t matter what we want. Once we get it, we want something else.”— Bryan Cogman, Petyr Baelish, Aidan Gillen, imdb.com
“Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what might come leaking out.”— Markus Zusak, amazon.com
“I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.”— L. Frank Baum, amazon.com
“The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”— Maya Angelou, amazon.com
“May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“You were a summer gift, one I’ll always treasure. You were a dream I never wanted to wake up from. You opened my eyes to things I’ll never really see. You’re the best thing that will ever happen to me.”— Ellen Hopkins, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”— Daniel Keyes, amazon.com
“Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.”— Anne Sexton, goodreads.com