Best They Wanted Qoutes
394 They Wanted quotes by 353 unique authors
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I didn't confess how wrecked I was. Let them keep thinking I was Superwoman if they wanted. I knew the truth.
— John Marsden
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The war was about vanity, he said. It was about old men who couldn't look in the mirror anymore and so they sent the young…
— Colum McCann
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When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live…
— Anais Nin
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They wanted to have a good time, but they were like children playing in the street; they could see one after another of them being…
— Philip K. Dick
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Rome tolerated every abominable practice, embraced every foul idea in the name of freedom and the rights of the common man. Citizens no longer carried…
— Francine Rivers
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They wanted to come in after the pounds", explained Pooh, "so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come.
— A A Milne
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There were two Avoxes with me in prison. Darius and Lavinia, but the guards mostly called them the redheads. They'd been our servants in the…
— Suzanne Collins
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It would be inappropiate, undignified, at 38, to conduct friendships or love affairs with the ardour or intensity of a 22 year old. Falling in…
— David Nicholls
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A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world, because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted,…
— Tove Jansson
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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
— Carson McCullers
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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
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There was a difference between people looking at you because they wanted to be like you, and people looking at you because your misfortune brought…
— Jodi Picoult
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You are my siren,” he said, running his hands along her thighs and down her calves, feeling the shape of her even as the silk…
— Sarah MacLean
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Once at a record store in San Francisco, over a thousand kids showed up. They pushed forward and broke a window. A big piece of…
— Michael Jackson
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People forgot; it was in the nature of people to forget, to blur boundaries, to retell stories to come out the way they wanted them…
— Robin McKinley
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They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Just friends, just friends. Standing there in the bookstore, watching Seth walk away, I half wondered how anyone could still use that line. But I…
— Richelle Mead
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The blankets had fallen off and I stared down at her white back, the shoulder blades sticking out as if they wanted to grow into…
— Charles Bukowski
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It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn't no kings nor dukes at all, but just low-down humbugs and…
— Mark Twain
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In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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They wanted black women to conform to the gender norms set by white society. They wanted to be recognized as 'men,' as patriarchs, by other…
— Bell Hooks
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They suffered from the terrible delusion that something could be done. They seemed prepared to make the world the way they wanted it or die…
— Terry Pratchett
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They wanted it because they've got some sort of darkness in them. And maybe because they like pain. Because pain turns them on. Well, maybe…
— Larissa Ione
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Vaisey said, "Is it because your parents don't understand you?" Charlie said, "No, it's because our parents understand us very well, and that is why…
— Louise Rennison
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Twenty-three stories up and all I could see out the windows was grey smog. They could call it the City of the Angels if they…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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