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“You want your parents to say, "Hey, I'm proud of you." When you don't hear that, you learn to compensate. You say, "Hell, I don't need their approval. If I get my music right, I'll have everyone else's approval." I didn't understand it then, but I now know that's what happened to me.”
“You want your partner to objectify you.”
“You want your people recruiting, especially your highest performers.”
Source: How to Hire and Keep Great People
“You wanted a more interesting world… Maybe I’m growing up quickly. Maybe I’m better than you planned… Maybe I’m just showing you that your world was interesting enough all the time, all on its own. And now I’m punishing you.”
Source: Injection, Vol. 1
“You wanted a wife but I was
still a girl.”
“You wanted a women's culture. Well, now there is one. It isn't what you meant, but it exists. Be thankful for small mercies.”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“You wanted danger? Baby, you crawled into the lion’s den. And I don’t let pretty things leave without a scar.”
—Savage Devotion: The Savage Series Book 1”
“You wanted God's ideas about what was best for you to coincide with your ideas, but you also wanted him to be the almighty Creator of heaven and earth so that he could properly fulfill your wish. And yet, if he were to share your ideas, he would cease to be the almighty Father.”
“You wanted greater things
But love forces all of us down
And sorrow bows us still harder.
They bend us back where we began.
Are there not in the hallowed night
Also right things?
Things that are straight and true?
So I learned.
For never, as mortal teachers do,
Have you, my deities,
Upholders of all things
Led me with caution
On level pathways.
The gods say to humans,
"Taste everything
And learn by that nourishment
To give thanks for all things
And know what it is to be free to quit
And go where you like.”
Source: Selected Poetry: [including Hölderlin's Sophocles]
“You wanted happiness, I can’t blame you for that, and maybe a mouth sounds idiotic when it blathers on about joy but tell me you love this, tell me you’re not miserable.”
“You wanted hatchlings.”
“I know. I just didn’t want those hatchlings. Personally, I blame your father.”
Bercelak’s eyes grew wide. “Excuse me?”
On a burst of laughter, she exclaimed, “Well that came out horribly wrong!”
Source: Dragon Actually
“You wanted hearts and flowers,” he murmurs.
I blink at him, not quite believing what I’m seeing.
“You have my heart.” And he waves toward the room.
“And here are the flowers,” I whisper, completing his sentence. “Christian, it’s lovely.”
Source: Fifty Shades Darker
“You wanted hearts and flowers. You have my heart - & here are the flowers.”
“you wanted it all to make sense
and you wanted the most complicated answer,
but the answer is simple.
just be.”
Source: you are safe here.
“You wanted me then?'
'I've wanted you from the first second I saw you, Violence.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“you wanted me to dream. and you just wouldn't ever let me give in to the give-up.
you'd say… “you better stay hellbent in your heart and go where it wants you to go… because it will ache if you don't.”
and when i ache a little from waiting on a dream, i remember what you said, and i stay hellbent in my heart, and i try to go where it wants me to go… because i know that it will ache even more if i don't.”
“you wanted saving didn't you?”
Source: Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception
“You wanted someone to be obsessed with you. How could you accomplish that?”
Source: In the Dream House
“You wanted the truth. Or are you afraid of it now?”
Source: The Project
“You wanted to become a doctor to help people and feel better at the end of your job, I think, watching them, as the nurse takes my hand. But I don't think you do feel better at the end of the day. You look like humans have constantly disappointed you.”
“You wanted to destroy philosophy and poetry in order to make room for religion and morality which you misunderstood: but you wereable to destroy only yourself.”
“You wanted to drown in a woman. Here's your chance. Drown in her blood" ~Violence(Maddox)”
“You wanted to empty your guts, then.”
Source: Non Serviam
“You wanted to encapsulate that constant curious feeling that got us hooked in the first place.”
Source: Cu-ri-ous: strange; unusual. "a curious first never ends well..."
“You wanted to feel alive, right? It doesn't matter if you're monster or human. Living hurts.”
Source: This Savage Song
“You wanted to find out how much I could make you feel. You wanted to know what it was like to lose yourself in passion, and find yourself safe in my arms afterward. Now Iʹm here, and Iʹm going to love you with everything I have in me.”
Source: Hello Stranger
“You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.”
Source: Writings on Art and Literature
“You wanted to kiss me?’
She nods and leans forward to peck at my bottom lip.
‘I still do.”
Source: Beastly & Bookish
“You wanted to know my passions? Allow me to introduce them to you.”
Source: Gideon: The Nightwalkers
“You wanted to lick my face the first time you saw me? Is that usually what you do when you’re attracted to guys?”
I shake my head. “Not your face, your dimple. And no. You’re the only guy I’ve ever had the urge to lick.”
He smiles at me confidently. “Good. Because you’re the only girl I’ve ever had the urge to love.”
Source: Hopeless
“You wanted to ride, my nasty girl, so fucking ride,” Sander challenged.”
Source: Searing Ecstasy
“You wanted to see me?” she asked after shutting the door. She remained where she was, not daring to move any closer.
He turned his gaze from the fire crackling over the logs to face her. Those dark eyes scanned her from head to foot and when they reached her once again, they gleamed with unmistakable hunger.
“Take off your clothes,” he said calmly.”
Source: Dark Velvet
“You wanted to see the world.
And yet, all I want is to see you.”
Source: Coffee and Cigarettes
“you was born wild, and you's going to die wild. But ain't no use to try to take the whole world with you.”
“You was in all sorts of places, huh?”
“Yeah, I was. Saw the world.”
“What’d you think of it?”
“Different languages, same shit.”
“Yeah, that’s the truth, huh?”
Source: Shutter Island
“You was talkin' out of yer head last night, too," chortles Davy. "No one's gonna fancy me. I'm gonna be ugly and no on'es gonna fancyme!" he mimics, mincing about the hammock. "You are such a rum cove, Jacky, for thinkin' such things when yer just about beat t' death! Fancy me? Fancy me? Jacky, no one's gonna fancy us, we're all gonna end up lookin' like Snag!" "Which is how a salty dog sailor's supposed to look," says Willy with a firm nod. "And you're halfway there, Jack-o!" crows Tink. Ah, the sweet comfort of friends.”
“You wash the roots very carefully before you plant.”
“You waste life when you waste good food.”
Source: Flowering Judas and Other Stories: A Library of America eBook Classic
“You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.”
“You wasted years upon years,
Yelling with empty eyes and ears,
That I just can't be bothered with your excuses
Because trust me,
I'm a woman with better ideas.”
Source: Jennifer Bares All
“You watch a hockey game, and the hand-eye coordination and the speed is really miraculous; how those guys track the puck alone, just following it with their eyes.”
“You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.”
“You watch cute dog videos today. Tomorrow you discover videos of injured animals. Then you discover videos on animal cruelty. Then you get angry. Then you start seeing cruelty everywhere. News and incidents of cruelty reach you before anyone else. You start going deeper and deeper into an endless spiral.”
“You watch guys live through their peaks, and then unfortunately, you've got to come down from that peak.”
“You watch him playing Jack Sparrow, and he's loving it, and he's loving being in that world. He's still excited by it. Sometimes, he'll even say, 'Was that OK?' And I'm thinking, 'You're Johnny Depp man, you know that's OK!' But he doesn't. He's still going to [director] Gore [Verbinski] and asking for help. It's a privilege to see the human side of Johnny. It's really exciting.”
“You watch Jeff Sessions testifying in front of Congress, Jesus, like watching an amnesiac: "I don't recall," "I don't remember," "I don't recall," "I don't remember," "I don't remember what I don't recall," "I recall what I don't remember." Amazing.”
“You watch one after another of the ubiquitous, hyper-argumentative talk shows that fill your television, aware that in their fury they make politics a game, diverting public attention rather than focusing it. But that suits you perfectly. Diversion is, after all, what you seek.”
Source: How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
“You watch people and study them the way an alien would.”
“You watch people run for president, and a large part of what they say, they don't ever follow through on. But I don't think you can afford to wait on this [trade agreements].”
“You watch some teams these days and you wonder if they just met on the playground and decided to choose up sides.”