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He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked the words to… — Nora Roberts
This pleased Onyango, for to him knowledge was the source of all the white man's power, and he wanted to make sure that his son… — Barack Obama
Heaven's brightest and best-loved angel, who was cast out for inspiring a rebellion against God. Having lost Heaven, Lucifer and his rebel angels vowed to… — Libba Bray
From 'the lesson of the moth': and before i could argue him out of his philosophy he went and immolated himself on a patent cigar… — Don Marquis
He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive. — Richard Yates
He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world. — Don DeLillo
As for us, He has appointed the job of permanent unemployment. If he wanted us to work, after all, He would not have created this… — Rumi
He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more. — P.G. Wodehouse
He didn't want to please his readers. He wanted to stretch them until they twanged. — Martin Amis
Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life… — Nicole Krauss
He wanted to fly in lightweight contraptions with her. — Dave Eggers
...he enclosed pieces of string that he used to measure out his body--his head, thigh, forearm, finger, neck, everything. He wanted me to sleep with… — Jonathan Safran Foer
He wanted her to experience all the glorious cheese of life. — Christopher Moore
He felt a spasm of excitement because he knew instinctively who it was, or at least knew who it was he wanted it to be,… — Douglas Adams
He loved her for being so beautiful, and he hated her for it. He loved how she put shiny stuff on her lips for him,… — Ann Brashares
He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn’t work anymore. In fact, they’d never worked. How do you… — Ann Brashares
She had no mercy. He looked at her neck and thought how he would like to jab it with the knife he had for his… — W. Somerset Maugham
Long afterward Amory thought of sophomore spring as the happiest time of his life. His ideas were in tune with life as he found it;… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mr. Wonka: "Don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted." Charlie Bucket: "What happened?" Mr. Wonka: "He lived happily ever… — Roald Dahl
Something was wrong with Luke," Annabeth muttered, poking at the fire with her knife. "Did you notice the way he was acting?" "He looked pretty… — Rick Riordan
He wished he could've explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, but how he had not been so… — Tim O'Brien
And what had he wanted? He'd never sat down to think about it. But mostly, he wanted yesterday to be different from today. — Terry Pratchett
It was common enough, to see so much death and want a child. Common, therefore human, and he wanted it all the more. When the… — Ian Mcewan
He remained, weeks after awakening, in that period of early-morning consciousness that allows easy re-entry to dreaming. His limbs still tingled with the residue of… — Dave Eggers
He wanted to talk to them, if he could, to discover whether they had truths about life which he had never heard before. Here is… — Kurt Vonnegut

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