He Wanted Quotes
553 He Wanted quotes by 426 unique authors
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He wanted to put his arms around her, but she had a darkness that seemed to stand beside her like an acquaintance that would not…
— Elizabeth Strout
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But the question to precede all others, which finally determines the course of our lives is What do I really want? Was it to love…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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He wanted to go running home to Mommy, what can I say? Of course, it's hard for me to believe that anyone would choose to…
— Michael Grant
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He wasn't into one-night stands, he wasn't into scoring just to see if he could, he wasn't into acting just charming enough to get what…
— Nicholas Sparks
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He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We…
— Voltaire
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He wanted to tell her that he was inspired and vigilant and recklessly alone, that his body contained his unsteady heart and something else, something…
— Michael Cunningham
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Actually," Clary said, "I think he stayed because of me." Jace's glaze flicked up to hers with a flash of gold. "Because of you? Hoping…
— Cassandra Clare
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She saw Valentine's eyes as the sword hurtled toward her; it seemed like eons, though it could only have been a split second. She saw…
— Cassandra Clare
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It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.
— Margaret Atwood
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When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity, but I often wonder in these later days if anything about him was as it seemed.…
— Frank Herbert
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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
— James Joyce
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He had known he wanted her, that it was for all time, but he hadn’t realized what was between them. A priceless gift, a treasure…
— Christine Feehan
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This was all he wanted now. Some signs that the immense world would accept him and give him the long time he needed to think…
— Ray Bradbury
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He always lived in his head. He never cared about how things were, only how they would be, someday, when he had everything he wanted.…
— Cassandra Clare
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I bring you a message from a friend of ours," she said quietly. "He wanted you to know that he's not dead. He can't be…
— Brandon Sanderson
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What he wanted was not just to hear about Hailsham, but to remember Hailsham, just like it had been his own childhood. He knew he…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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He wanted to give me a blade? What's wrong with that?” “Blades,” he whispered, “and sheaths go together. And your sheath will only ever hold…
— Nalini Singh
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He wanted to impart some of the truths Bruce Denton had taught him, that you dont' become a runner by winning a morning workout. The…
— John L. Parker Jr.
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he wanted people to like his mind again-after awhile it might be such a nice place in which to live.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Marc didn’t want to win by default. He wanted to win for real. Forever.
— Rachel Vincent
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No. No games. He wanted her and didn't care who knew it. He definitely and absolutely wanted her, longed for her, wanted to do more…
— Douglas Adams
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Normally, Edward would have found intrusive, clingy behavior of this sort very annoying, but there was something about Sarah Ruth. He wanted to take care…
— Kate DiCamillo
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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
— Truman Capote
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He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he…
— Ayn Rand
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Oh, she doesn't belong to anybody now,' he said, and suddenly I saw her for what she was - a piece of refuse waiting to…
— Graham Greene
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