Sometimes you don't get to choose your partner. Life chooses it for you.
If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.
If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.
You know, when you're an actor, you want to go to Hollywood. When you're a musician, you want to go to Nashville.
When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
It's not to late to... ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be.
If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government.
As a parent, your perspective of childhood is through the eyes of this person that you care so much about and you just want the world to be great for them. You want their life to be easy and happy.
You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.
You want to be on your toes; You don't want to be in a Nic Cage movie and just have him blow by you as an actor.
When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to get it.
You want people to identify with the person on the screen or in the theater, but you don't want them to identify with you as a person.
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
Do you like him? Ty asked. "Not that I care." "I do," I said, because it was true. Even though it didn't matter anymore. "Not that I care you don't care. Though you clearly do care, and I don't care about that either." "Well, I don't care that you do...
I love you, Ginesse. Don't you see? You are my Zerzura. You are my undiscovered country, both my heart's destination and journey. Gold and temples, jewels and gems don't hold one bit of your enticement. You are my Solomon's mine, my uncharted empire....
Earl Partridge: I loved her so. And she knew what I did. She knew all the fucking stupid things I'd done. But the love... was stronger than anything you can think of. The goddamn regret. The goddamn regret! Oh, and I'll die. Now I'll die, and I'll te...
I think I know why you never married, Sarah." "Well, and I reckoned if I wanted something that'd come and go as he pleased, take me for granted, and ignore me when he chose, I'd get a cat. And if I wanted something I'd always have to be picking up af...
Our wishes are like little children -- the more you indulge the more they want from you.
He who fondles you more than usual has either deceived you or wants to.
Master, I'm afraid. I am, truly. This place scares me. At home, I know who I am, what to do. I'm the Warden's daughter, I know where I stand. But this is a dangerous place, full of pitfalls. All my life, I've known it was waiting for me, but now I'm ...
