Being wanted meant having to satisfy.

“I think I was just overly excitable about it because I loved him in a way I'd never thought possible. I knew that if…

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

“As a kid, Vix had had some warped idea that grownup meant having a job and living on your own. It meant no one…

— Judy Blume

“Glum. It meant having the blues in a way that annoyed other people. Having the blues aggressively.”

— Gillian Flynn

“But something was going to give. He was having a shit time at school and a shit time at home, and as home and…

— Nick Hornby

“...to be born into this world exactly the way it is, into these exact circumstances, even if that meant not having a dad or…

— anne lamott

“Never risking anything meant never having or doing or being anything either. Life is risk, it turned out.”

— Lev Grossman

“My hesitancy to claim what I wanted meant that I got less of what I wanted.”

— Anella Wetter

“But life wasn't a fairy tale, and I had no problem doing what was necessary to get what I wanted, even if it meant…

— Michelle Madow

“When I said I’ve always wanted you, I meant all of you: your body, your ideas, your memories, your whole heart. I want your…

— A.J. DeWall

He was everything, everything that I wanted. We were meant tobe, supposed to be, but we lost it.

— Anonymous

I became an entertainer not because I wanted to but because I was meant to.

— Danny Kaye

“Nothing will ever be enough to satisfy the black hole in our hearts.”

— Soman Chainani

That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Every song that I compose has to satisfy the music director in me.

— Gopi Sundar

A draft doesn't produce the people we need to satisfy our real manpower shortage. We need specialists to keep our jets flying.

— Patricia Schroeder