He Wanted Quotes

553 He Wanted quotes by 426 unique authors

It wasn't a question of deceit. Just the opposite; he wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot that you would… — Tim O'Brien
He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself. — Oscar Wilde
Darkness coiled between what he wanted them to believe and the self he despised. It only made him more alone. How could you save someone… — Janet Fitch
Sometimes I feel like I've been waiting for someone to tell me when I can be normal again,' she said. 'I keep thinking I'll get… — Maureen Johnson
He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. I said his heaven… — Emily Bronte
The strange thing was, he wanted to like everyone. He just couldn't find a way to do it. — David Guterson
The day after his father left, Franz and his mother went into town together, and as they left home Franz noticed that her shoes did… — Milan Kundera
The question the doubter does not ask is whether faith was really useless or simply not used. What would you think of a boy who… — Os Guinness
It was watching Madeline Alby eat cheese with every ounce of her being, like it was the first and best time, that made him realize… — Christopher Moore
I'll write this all down for you," I said. "I'll put it in a story." I don't know if that's what he wanted to ask… — Sue Monk Kidd
I believe he died this way on purpose. I believe he wanted no chilling moments, no one to witness his last breath and be haunted… — Mitch Albom
What do you know about life? " Bitterness ached in her throat. " You were born with everything. You never had to struggle for a… — Nora Roberts
...his love was too much for him, he felt paralyzed, he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered. — Tim O'Brien
He made the boxes because he was lonely. He didn't have anyone to love, and he made the boxes so he could love them, and… — Audrey Niffenegger
She was his soulmate, as much a part of him as the very flesh and bone that made him. She was with him, in him,… — Jennifer Donnelly
He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The force with which he wanted it both ways made him grit his teeth. What kind of fool wanted it only one way? — Maile Meloy
[Stephanie] 'You see, Mrs. Mayer was going on about George's lodge, and how he wanted to be buried with his ring, and so Grandma had… — Janet Evanovich
Choose what to believe. He wanted the truth. Why was everybody so determined that he should not get it. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to exist. — Lois Lowry
What Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one you could find in the grime of the everyday...he consoled himself with the fact that, in… — Colum McCann
I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. He didn't want to burn my photo or toss… — Alice Sebold
I held her, he wanted to say, and if I knew for certain that all it would take to hold her again would be to… — Dennis Lehane
Who's they?" He wanted to know. "Who, specifically, do you think is trying to murder you?" "Every one of them," Yossarian told him. "Every one… — Joseph Heller
Stop. I don't do you favors, Alec. I do things for you because - well, why do you think I do them?" Something rose up… — Cassandra Clare

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