I Quotes
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“I need a bodyguard." Simon eyed him. "Have you been watching The Bodyguard? Because I am not going to fall in love with you and carry you around in my burly arms.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“I need a boy who thinks with his big head, not his little one. Since they do not exist, I have fashioned my own.”
Source: Revolution
“I need a break after school," she told me later. "School is hard because a lot of people are in the room, so you get tired. I freak out if my mom plans a play date without telling me, because I don't want to hurt my friends' feelings. But I'd rather stay home. At a friend's house you have to do the things other people want to do. I like hanging out with my mom after school because I can learn from her. She's been alive longer than me. We have thoughtful conversations. I like having conversations because they make people happy.”
Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
“I need a break. I've been working for about a year and a half. I think I'd like to go to Pakistan.”
“I need a challenge 'cause I don't get the girl anymore.”
“I need a close contact to the client, whoever it is, and a commitment of the client to go out and do a process together. I want to do the best for him. I need his respect and his patience. I want to work with a sophisticated person who's interested in a good building and not in my name.”
“I need a coffee to go with my coffee.”
“I need a costume to be convinced that I'm somebody else. Otherwise, it's just me. It's just Amy saying lines. I haven't really become somebody else. And what's the fun in that?”
“I need a day with you, then another. I need an infinite amount of last days with you because none of them, no matter what we do, will be good enough to encapsulate how much I love you.”
Source: Dearest Josephine
“I need a dog pretty badly. I dreamed of dogs last night. They sat in a circle and looked at me and I wanted all of them.”
Source: Conversations with John Steinbeck
“I need a dose of the natural environment on a regular basis. It balances the bitumen and high rises of Collins Street.”
“I need a drink. Now.”
After tossing—fine, throwing—my purse and keys on the couch, I march straight into the kitchen. No more delays; it's time to forget tonight. It’s been yet another night like all the other first dates that never meet a second one. When you begin to lose count, that's when it's really time for a drink.
Adrian stands there, leaning against the counter in an unbuttoned dress shirt and dark wash jeans. He glances at me as I walk in. “How was your date?” he asks, taking a swig of his scotch.
I brush past him on my mission, opening the cupboard and moving a couple bottles around. I reiterate, “I need alcohol.”
Out of the corner of my eye, I catch him hiding a smile before he says, “That bad?”
My face twitches as I ignore his line of questioning. It is more like a statement he wants me to clarify, even though he already knows the answer. Instead, I ask, “I have vodka left, don't I?” I stand on my tiptoes in hopes of spotting something in the very back. Nothing.
He waltzes over and looks with me, his chin almost touching my shoulder. “I think you polished that one off after last week's date.” His voice is low right next to my ear, very nearly causing a shiver.”
Source: Here All Along
“I need a father. I need a mother. I need some older, wiser being to cry to. I talk to God, but the sky is empty.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I need a favour.’
I raise my eyebrows at him in disbelief. What makes him think I’m about to do him a favour? He’s a stranger. And he’s wearing handcuffs.”
Source: Out of Control
“I need a focus group like I need a hole in my head.”
“I need a form of escape even when I'm working really hard.”
“I need a girl who will put me in my place, but I also want to laugh and have a good time.”
“I need a God who is bigger and more nimble and mysterious than what I could understand and contrive. Otherwise it can feel like I am worshipping nothing more than my own ability to understand the divine.”
Source: Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
“I Need a Good Book I need a good story. I need a good book. The kind that explodes Off the shelf. I need some good writing, Alive and exciting, To contemplate all by myself. I need a good novel, I need a good read. I probably need Two or three. I need a good tale Of love and betrayal Or perhaps an adventure at sea. I need a good saga. I need a good yarn. A momentous and mightily Or slight one. But with thousands and thousands And thousands of books, I need someone to tell me The right one. -John Lithgow”
“I need a guy who's confident and is secure in himself, because we're always apart.”
“I need a healthy injection of cynicism right now.”
“I need a hero. I'm holding out for a hero, in fact, until the morning light. And she's gotta be sure, and it's gotta be soon - because I have been kidnapped by evil faeries - and she's gotta be larger than life”
Source: Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
“I need a hero, I'm holding out for at hero 'till the end of the night He's gotta be strong and he's gotta be fast And he's gotta be fresh from the fight I need a hero, I'm holding out for a hero 'till the morning light He's gotta be sure and it's gotta be soon And he's gotta be larger than life, larger than life”
“I need a Kleenex.” She sniffs.
Guy disengages his hands from hers, takes the hem of his
sweatshirt, and wipes her nose with it.
“That’s romantic,” she says, embarrassed.
“Well, it is sort of, because I wouldn’t do it for anybody else
in the world.”
Source: Willow
“I need a life outside of soccer. So I very much welcome, you know, new love interests and dating and friends and family.”
“I need a life. I need a friend. I need a change. But nothing ever changes.”
Source: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
“I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.”
“I need a little criticism while I make a record so that I kind of feel like: okay, I know that I'm doing the best that I can do because someone is actually here challenging it.”
“I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the room and find their mother sewing and pick up some scrap of bright wool, a feather, or a shred of chintz. I need a howl; a cry. When the storm crosses the marsh and sweeps over me where I lie in the ditch unregarded I need no words. Nothing neat. Nothing that comes down with all its feet on the floor. None of those resonances and lovely echoes that break and chime from nerve to nerve in our breasts making wild music, false phrases. I have done with phrases.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“I need a little sugar in my bowl and a little hot dog in my roll.”
“I need a little time to sift all the kernels of truth from his self-congratulatory chaff.”
Source: Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal
“I need a lot of alone time as a human. And especially on a movie set when you're around people all day long. So it's actually kind of nice to go home to a hotel and be alone and unwind.”
“I need a lot of black on my eyes and a little shot of vodka to be brave, because you're beautiful when you relax.”
“I need a lot of support... Life is really hard, and I don't see some active benevolent force out there. I see it as basically a really cool survival game. You get on the right side of the tracks, and you now are actually working with what some people would call magic.”
“I need a lover that won't drive me crazy, someone that knows the meaning of hey, hit the highway.”
“I need a man who tells me the party's over, that it's time to go home, because [we] have to work in the morning.”
“I need a minute.”
Source: Yildun: Worldmaker of Yand
“I need a moment of time for myself every day, like a child playing with his things. When I travel, I routinely find a quiet place, open my diary and write something in it.”
“I need a name for this ink ... A name for the feeling you get when you see someone again. After many years. Someone lost to you. Or so you thought. And you remember them a certain way. In your mind, they never age. But then suddenly, there they are. Older. Changed by time. Different, but exactly the same.”
Source: Stepsister
“I need a new friend. I need a friend, period. Not a true friend, nothing close or share clothes or sleepover giggle giggle yak yak. Just a pseudo-friend, disposable friend. Friend as accessory. Just so I don't feel or look so stupid.”
Source: Speak
“I need a new unit to sample and hold, but not an angry one, a new design, new design.”
“I need a prison in order to dream of being free.”
“I need a release from whatever I'm writing.”
“I need a sample of your blood,' said Kira. Marcus raised an eyebrow. 'I didn't know we'd reached that stage of our relationship.”
Source: Partials series 1-3 (Partials; Fragments; Ruins) (Partials)
“I need a seatbelt on an airplane like a hole in the head,” thought Jane, as she smiled back.”
Source: The Life and Death of the Ericsons
“I need a semblance of routine so little things, like having my morning cup of English breakfast tea and going to Pilates early before the world gets hectic, keeps me calm.”
“I need a six month vacation twice a year.”
“I need a soul mate so that I can be who I am, naked. I want there to be someone who picks up my heavy, bleeding heart and takes it somewhere safe and warm.”
“I need a spanking. They make me feel better.”
“I need a spiritual connection - I can make changes, but I can't make miracles - and I need people around me who'll support me and believe in me and tell me the truth and not let me deceive myself into avoiding the what's scary and hard and necessary.”