I Quotes
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“I don’t want us to be ashamed anymore (we all were crying by this point) of being pregnant or gay or poor or having a crackhead dad! I want us to be fucking proud of ourselves. (...) So we have to be proud and always remember who we are and when we make it to college, who we were.”
Source: Gabi, A Girl in Pieces
“I don't want what I can't have. I don't want to want what I can't have. -Nate”
Source: Lost and Found
“I don’t want what we’re doing to just end up as notes for a novel.”
Source: 10:04
“I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted?”
Source: Coraline
“I don't want you back because you feel obligated to me, love," he said. "That's the devil of wedding vows - they make you do things for a person you maybe should run away from. Come back to me because you want to, not because you think you ought to. Do you understand?”
Source: The Many Sins of Lord Cameron
“I don't want you getting too cold, ' he added, his breath warm against my temple. He was so much taller, even sitting as straight as I was, my head still didn't reach his chin. 'I feel like that's an important part of my duty as your personal Royal Guard.'
'Is that what you're doing right now? Protecting me from the cold by pulling me into your lap?'
'Exactly.' His hand was against my side, the weight like a brand.
I stared at what I thought might be his throat. 'This is incredibly inappropriate.'
'More inappropriate than reading a dirty journal?'
'Yes,' I insisted, heat creeping into my face.
'No.' His deep chuckle rumbled through me. 'I can't even lie. This is inappropriate.'
'Then why?'
'Why?' His chin grazed the top of my head. 'Because I wanted to.'
I blinked once and then twice. 'And what if I didn't want to?'
Another chuckle sent an acute shiver through me. 'Princess, I'm confident that if you didn't want me to do something, I'd be lying flat on my back with a dagger at my throat before I even took my next breath. Even if you can't see an inch in front of you.”
Source: From Blood and Ash
“I don’t want you.”
He moved so quickly she barely had time to gasp before he lifted her off her feet, fused his mouth to hers, and kissed her until her brain melted. Then he set her back on her wobbly legs and said,” That was for the lie. And for future reference, myerina, wrapping your legs around a man and commanding him to pleasure you is not an effective way to illustrate your lack of interest.”
Source: The Sea King
“I don’t want you. I love you, and that love surpasses all want in such a way I could never have you and still feel at peace. I could throw rice at your wedding, hold your firstborn, watch you live without me . . . and I’d handle it all perfectly well because love—this tether binding me to you—would endure.”
Source: Dearest Josephine
“I don't want you in harm's way.'
In a perfect world, that would be all I need to hear. 'If the others get to make a choice, then so do I.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“I don’t want you involved in any of that.”
“Because you care about me?”
“Of course.” I narrowed my eyes. “I don’t want to worry about you getting hurt.”
He stepped in and his other hand settled just above my hip. “Because you want to be with me?”
“Yes.” That word was easy to speak.
Rider smiled then and the right dimple appeared. “You want to be my girlfriend.”
I opened my mouth and then I laughed. It sounded strange after the seriousness of our conversation, but the statement was sweet and silly.
His cheeks pinked. “Not sure how I feel about that laugh,” he teased. “But I do love the sound of it.”
My breath caught at the word. Love. Oh, gosh, was that what was happening here?
“So do you? Want to be my girlfriend?” he asked, and then chuckled. “Probably should’ve brought this up before I kissed you, but I want...I want to see where this goes, Mallory. I feel like we got a second chance, you know? I’ve been thinking that since I sat down in speech and saw you sitting there. We have a second chance. And who gets second chances?”
I searched his gaze, feeling a rightness deep in my chest. I had thought the same thing before, about second chances.
“I don’t want to pass that up.”
Source: The Problem with Forever
“I don’t want you risking yourself for me,” he continued, his voice unhurried. “Not anymore.”
“I’m not risking myself for you,” Mariko retorted. “I’m here for me. Because I still have things I wish to accomplish with my life.” She refocused her attention on the misshapen mass. Slowly began chiseling away twisted fragments of wax, using a lacquered chopstick she’d pilfered from her evening meal. “It turns out my wishes have something to do with you.”
Source: Smoke in the Sun
“I don’t want you running around with a little banana-handler!”
Source: Stock-Still
“I don't want you to be healthy for me. I want you to be healthy for you. So...if you need to do something you'll regret...let's do it. I'm in. Just not your hair.”
Source: Promise Me Sunshine
“I don't want you to be lonely," Cedar couldn't help saying. "Or hungry! You two always forget to go shopping till the cupboards are bare. I'll be right back." She grabbed some baskets and ran out of the house.
Old Mother Hubbard's Corner Market was always open early, so Cedar filled her baskets with Pinocchio's and Gepetto's favorite foods: bread, fruitcake, sardines, and humble pie.”
Source: Once Upon a Time: A Story Collection
“I don't want you to be repulsed by me.”
Source: Ignite Me
“I don’t want you to be sad, Temujin. Being able to give back the physical body that sheltered you during your life on earth so that it continues to serve the earth is a great privilege.”
Source: Temudjin Obra Completa
“I don’t want you to be someone you’re not. I think it’s one of the most beautiful things about love and one of the most tragic. We can only love people fully and completely when we let them be who they are. And sometimes that means you can love someone who you can’t be in a relationship with, because you want different things.”
Source: Chasing Kat
“I don’t want you to be the reason why he thinks the British are snobbish.”
Source: At Her Fingertips
“I don't want you to be the shifter." Rokan's voice was quiet, and her human sense of smell told her nothing about how he felt. "I haven't wanted that for a long time. Since before I knew it was possible for you to not be the shifter." A pause then - so quietly that even she could barely hear him, "Since before I knew I loved you.”
Source: Mistwood
“I don't want you to get the idea she was a goddamn icicle or something, just because we never necked or horsed around much. She wasn't. I held hands with her all the time, for instance. That doesn't sound like much, I realize, but she was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddamn hand dies on you, or else they think they have to keep moving their hand all the time, as if they were afraid they'd bore you or something. Jane was different. [...] You never even worried with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
“I don't want you to go back to Miami already."
"You don't? You could have your house all to yourself." Her voice was whisper soft.
"I don't want my house all to myself. I like you in it. I like watching the yoga."
"You could get cable. They have lots of yoga shows on cable."
He moved a little closer, and she stretched her legs out in front of her. "It would be quite the same as watching it live," he said.”
Source: Love Me Sweet
“I don't want you to go."
Six little words. Six words no one had ever said to Wallace Price before. They were fragile, and he took them in, holding them close.”
Source: Under the Whispering Door
“I don’t want you to hate me or even to not like me, but I am committed to helping you think and grow and succeed”
“I don't want you to inherit my belief, I don't even want you to inherit my ideas, if there is one thing I want you to inherit, it's my insatiable responsibility to the world.”
Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“I don't want you to just save Aetherium, Jonathan. I want you to make it worth saving.”
Source: SkyWorld: The Fall Is Coming
“I don't want you to leave. I want you to stay.”
Source: Fateful Italian Passion
“I don't want you to see me naked," I say, my bottom lip trembling. "Not now, not like this."
"Keep your undergarments on," he says, lifting my dress over my head. "Whoa. God, you're gorgeous."
He picks me up and gingerly places me in the bathtub. Instantly, my teeth start chattering. "I'm getting in with you," he says, and I jolt.
"I'll keep my boxers on. It'll be like we're in bathing suits. On a holiday at a beach."
He whips his socks and his jeans off, and then his T-shirt, his body sheer and cut perfection. Those abs---an eight-pack, or, as they say in France, le bar du chocolat. Those legs. The tattoo of two tigers anchored on his hairless and sculpted chest. And I'm too sick, too delirious, to explore every delicious detail. Charles lifts my back and slides behind me. He wraps his arms around my waist and I sink into his embrace, snuggling into the warmth of his body.”
Source: The Spice Master at Bistro Exotique
“I don’t want you to stay because you feel sorry for me. I don’t want you to feel like I’ve trapped you here.”
“I’m not staying out of a sense of responsibility. Kef me, woman. I do feel responsible, but that’s not why I’m staying. I’m staying because I want to be with you. Because you deserve a home and I want to be the one to give it to you. Because you look at me like I created the stars instead of the nobody station trash that I am.”
Source: When She's Married
“I don't want you to talk to me like that, Dale...! You're not my father... I've never thought of you as a replacement for my father...! (Latina)”
Source: If It's for My Daughter, I'd Even Defeat a Demon Lord Manga, Vol. 2
“I don't want you to think about anyone in your past. Not now, not ever again. You deserved a hell of a lot more than any of those bastards gave you."
"If it helps," she said with a faint smile, "I killed most of them.”
Source: Midnight Rescue
“I don't want you to think me as a heathen, Mr C; I've had enough experience to know that there is a God and that there is a Devil. But the way to tame the Devil is not to go down there to church and listen to what a sinful mean fool he is. No, love the Devil like you love Jesus; because he is a powerful man, and will do you a good turn if he knows you trust him.”
Source: Children On Their Birthdays
“I don't want you to think you've been forgotten by creation. Sometimes it takes a long road for things to become clear. It's not a failure. It's an unveiling and so much more powerful because of your wait.”
“I don't want you two hurt because of me."...
"At least try, sweetling. Please." At her slight nod, he did what came natural and lowered his head. She gasped into his mouth, and he pressed his lips to hers. The electric shock between them only pushed him to kiss her deeper....
"I think I can try if you're going to keep kissing me like that," she finally said, and he grinned.”
Source: An Immortal's Song
“I don’t want your allegiance – I want your annihilation – your absolute apocalyptic annihilation – for the ascension of humanity!”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“I don't want your duty kisses. They taste bitter”
Source: Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, The Last Man in the World: A Pride and Prejudice Variation
“I don't want your hanging meat parasailing toward me. Please, double bubble-wrap it, and put it in storage already.”
Source: Creating a Concierge
“I don’t want your love. I want the same love you want. I don’t want your love. I want what you want & we can find It together & share our deepening experience of It….I thought it was your love I wanted and it hurt so much when you couldn’t give it. I even made a bargain that if I gave it to you, I could expect it back. I thought you agreed to this bargain. I thought you were part of the deal.
I lived in fear that your love would disappear. I moved so deeply into the veil. Now I hear within me the whispering of something else. I feel the possibility of a Love that has nothing to do with you – an infinite resource that it always there. This Love is not affected by any condition, nor does it change in the stream of time. It is the same Love whether my body is strong or weak, whether I am rich and bountiful in material things or whether I am poor. It is not affected by things of this world. This is the Love that brings release. This is the Love that dissolves chains. This is the love that brings peace. This is the only Love I want. It releases you, my friend, from all our contracts.”
Stephen Schwartz, Compassionate Presence”
“I don't want your patronage. I don't want your tea. I was quite happy. What do you want to unsettle me for?”
Source: Howards End
“I don't want your prayers, he said.
What do you want, then?
The old answers came easily to mind. Money. Vengeance. Jordie's voice in my head silenced forever. But a different reply roared to life inside him, loud, insistent, and unwelcome. You, Inej. You.”
Source: Six of Crows
“I don't waste food, water, money, time and talent.”
“I Don't Waste My Time Doing Crosswords, As My Life Is The Only Puzzle I Care To Resolve!”
“I don't watch reality TV, my reality is tough enough.”
Source: Text Me, A Tale of Love and Technology
“I don't watch the video
but I can feel it playing
on a loop in a room miles
away from where he keeps
dying behind my eyes. All
I have left are tiny twitches,
small choices. "Please," I beg
alone in the box of my dark,
"I don't want to hurt that way
today. I already hurt that way
yesterday. Please don't kill him
again.”
Source: Alive at the End of the World
“I don't... we can't..."
His white teeth flashed in his tanned face, and he pulled her up against him so that she stood on her toes, so that her balance depended on him. "I can't believe I've managed to wait so long."
What did he mean, so long? They'd met only two days ago.
Then she saw his expression as he lowered his head to hers, and she realized that for this man, two days of restraint were an eternity. The man saw what he wanted and he went after it- and he wanted her.
Her eyes closed as his lips touched hers. Close-mouthed, gentle, seeking.
She tried to pretend this wasn't happening. Madeline didn't want him and wouldn't wed him, yet it wasn't right for Eleanor to kiss her cousin's fiancé.
But the crackle of hay beneath her feet and the scent of the horses gave this moment an unrelenting reality. The buttons on Mr. Knight's jacket dug into her sternum. His arms handled her with an expertise that bespoke familiarity in handling an unwilling woman, and he kissed... like a beast of sensual powers.
His lips were silky soft, skilled in the art of love, giving pleasure with the lightest touch. He barely brushed her lips, yet she found herself lifting her face, seeking his touch like a flower follows the sun.”
Source: One Kiss From You
“I don't wear tattoos to freak her out; I wear them because I have to. It's me.”
Source: Vampire Kisses
“I don't wear the opinions of others anymore, I learnt to dress myself.”
“I don't, when I think of a city, think of these people, people with very little who are content with that. That is, I think about poverty and culture and traffic and pollution and crime...”
Source: Pulled from the River
“I don’t wish for a perfect life, for in doing so I will have discarded the tremendous opportunities for great good that lay hidden in the greatest bad.”
“I don’t wish harm on anyone. But the truth is, the curve will not flatten until those with the “it will never happen to me” mentality get sick and see enough others with the same mentality get sick…just sayin’.”
“I don't wish to argue,
whether the glass is
half empty or half full,
as long as what it holds,
is pure and delightful.”