Time Quote by Lev Grossman

“He told me he was used to getting what he wanted.”

— Celia Conrad

“It's like he never wanted anything, but only thought and fretted about what he should want, what other people wanted him to want.”

— Jardine Libaire

“Sometimes, he thought, you had to do things you detested, in order to have the things that you truly wanted.”

— Joy Ellis

“I once believed I'd take whatever piece of him he was willing to give. That was no longer good enough. I wanted it all.”

— A.L. Jackson

“Sometimes you get everything you ever wanted, only it doesn't look like what you wanted anymore.”

— Leila Sales

“He had had his life and it was over and then he went on living it again with different people and more money, with…

— Ernest Hemingway

“It was a terrible refreshment, his plain way, the simple words, the absence of strategy. It made you realize how much of your life…

— Glen Duncan

“I see his longing and frustration. “It hurts too much.” His face contorts. “Everything we won’t have.”

— Angela Morrison

“when you really want something but are prevented from getting it, you want it all the more.”

— David DiSalvo

“I stared back at him, trying to think of a way to explain how I'd eradicated the word "want" from my vocabulary long ago…

— Karen White

“Somethings you don't know you want until they're gone. Other things you think want, but don't understand you already have them.”

— Gayle Forman

“He remained annoyed with himself until he realized that not knowing what he wanted was actually quite natural. We can never know what to…

— Milan Kundera