“If you are making a choice that you can only feel good about when you back up with a list of 'because,' you're not really listening to what you want.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“Maybe it's just a sense of entitlement. You know, like whenever you feel like you deserve that new pair of shoes. It's OK to want things as long as you don't get pissed off if you don't get 'em. Right?”— Ethan Hawke, Jesse, amazon.com
“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously near to wanting nothing.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“You'd be surprised what you can live without.”— Sara Hess, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, amazon.com
“There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“Have you ever wanted something very badly and then gotten it? Then you know that winning is many things, but it is never the thing you thought it would be.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“Knowing what you don’t want can often be more valuable than knowing what you do want.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“You don’t get anything you want by subscribing to the social rules of today.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“Very lightly he let his parched lips travel down her warm hair and hot nape. It was the sweetest, the strongest, the most mysterious sensation that the boy had ever experienced.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“Not feel anything, Jennie? Are you fucking kidding me? I walk around here every day and I ache every fucking minute I’m with you. I’m so twisted up with loving you and hating you, I can’t breathe. I can’t keep my hands off you, but I can’t let myself kiss you because I might lose myself in you. I ca…”— Lori Ryan, amazon.com
“Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“Then again, you cannot stop the flood of desire as it moves through the world, inappropriate though it may sometimes be. It is the prerogative of all humans to make ludicrous choices, to fall in love with the most unlikely of partners, and to set themselves up for the most predictable of calamities.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com