Really Wanted Quotes

382 Really Wanted quotes by 335 unique authors

It was the only thing I ever really wanted. And that’s the sin that can’t be forgiven--that I hadn’t done what I wanted. It feels… — Ayn Rand
I don't know. I really don't. While I was in the living room, I kept asking myself what I really wanted in life." She squeezed… — Nicholas Sparks
It's all I ever really wanted, that revelation. The possibility of fixed stars. — Janet Fitch
That was what she really wanted. To forget so thoroughly she'd never have another memory again, the bitter so bitter you gave up the sweet. — Janet Fitch
We only came close to dying six or seven times, which I thought was pretty good. Once, I lost my grip and found myself dangling… — Rick Riordan
In the long run, our most deeply held desires will govern our choices, one by one and day by day, until our lives finally add… — Bruce C. Hafen
I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was… — Charles Bukowski
So, it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard. We're gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do… — Nicholas Sparks
So everything we believe about happiness is wrong," I said. He nodded. Everything?" I asked, when what I meant was, Everything? Including you? Including me?… — Megan McCafferty
What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer’s life seemed the most inclusive. — Susan Sontag
And you are? (Xypher) Pissed off. You wrecked my car, shoved me around, and are a complete and utter dickhead! (Simone) Dear God, what a… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
It was a strange thing, to still be in love with your wife and to not know if you liked her. What would happen when… — Jodi Picoult
He was the only person in the world she was tongue-tied around, and yet the only person she really wanted to talk to. — Sarah Addison Allen
Cassandra's grandmother smiled then, only it wasn't a happy smile. Cassandra thought she knew how it felt to smile like that. She often did so… — Kate Morton
Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Not really, but after that I think about how I could kill him while he slept if I really wanted to, and then I feel… — Cassandra Clare
...when it came to dying, I was scared. Not of being dead, that I could not comprehend, to be nothing was impossible to grasp and… — Per Petterson
I really, really wanted to lose awareness of the here and now. The best way for me to do that was bury myself in a… — Charlaine Harris
I started thinking about life insurance and how nice it would be if you could get insurance that your life would be happy, and that… — Sharon Creech
But I really wanted to find it for you. And when it looked in the end like it wasn't going to turn up, I just… — Kazuo Ishiguro
It's disquieting to reflect that one's dreams never symbolize one's real wishes, but always something Much Worse... If I really wanted to be passionately embraced… — Dorothy L. Sayers
What I really wanted was the impossible. — Becca Fitzpatrick
There's one good thing about getting in trouble: It seems like you do it in steps. It seems like you don't just end up in… — Christopher Paul Curtis
The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death with was Augustus Waters. — John Green
You know," he said with unusual somberness, "I asked my father once why kenders were little, why we weren't big like humans and elves. I… — Margaret Weis

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