"I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything. What then?"
— Neil Gaiman (Coraline)

"I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin.

I want."
— Sara Gruen

"My greatest skill in life has been to want but little"
— Henry David Thoreau (Walden, or Life in the Woods)

"Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all."
— Mark Twain

"He was fabulously wealthy, but he would pretend to be broke, and often tried to borrow cigarettes and money from people. Little did they know that those who gave him stuff would later be rewarded in his will, with jewels and antigravity helmets. Women who refused to have sex with him are probably wishing that they could turn back the clock and say yes."
— Jack Handey

"Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want. (Amy March to Teddy Lawrence)"
— Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)

"I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are (p. 331)."
— Richard Paul Evans (The Gift: A Novel)

"Your pillow alone may be home to 40 million bed mites]. (To them your head is just one large oily bon-bon). And don't think a clean pillow-case will make a difference... Indeed, if your pillow is six years old- which is apparently about the average age for a pillow- it has been estimated that one-tenth of its weight will be made up of 'sloughed skin, living mites, dead mites and mite dung' "
— Bill Bryson (A Short History of Nearly Everything)

"If I was a flower growing wild and free
All I'd want is you to be my sweet honey bee.
And if I was a tree growing tall and greeen
All I'd want is you to shade me and be my leaves
"
— Barry Louis Polisar

"If I have you for a day, I'll want you for a week. If I have you for a week, I'll want you for another week."
— Michael Stein (In the Age of Love)

"Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the numbers, in the right orders, so you can have anything you want.
"
— Brian Tracy

"He thought himself awake when he was already asleep. He saw the stars above his face, whirling on their silent and sleepless axis, and the leaves of the trees rustling against them, and he heard small changes in the grass. These little noises of footsteps and soft-fringed wing-beats and stealthy bellies drawn over the grass blades or rattling against the bracken at first frightened or interested him, so that he moved to see what they were (but never saw), then soothed him, so that he no longer cared to see what they were but trusted them to be themselves, and finally left him altogether as he swam down deeper and deeper, nuzzling into the scented turf, into the warm ground, into the unending waters under the earth."
— T.H. White

"The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead."
— Maurice Sendak

""I wanna hold your gland.""
— John Lennon