„I don’t want to be safe,” he said. “I want to be with you“

— Cassandra Clare
„I don’t want the world. I want you,” Alec said, and Magnus closed his eyes, as if the words almost hurt.“
— Cassandra Clare
„I don’t want a perfectly safe weapon. I want a dangerous weapon that hurts people.”He took the stick from her, rapped it against her head. She howled and he nodded.“See? It hurts people.“
— Derek Landy
„I never cared,” he said. “I wanted you anyway. I always wanted you.“
— Cassandra Clare
„I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.“
— Virginia Woolf
„I can’t tell you just how wonderful she is. I don’t want you to know. I don’t want any one to know.“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
„I didn’t want to scare you. We don’t want to scare anyone.“
— Octavia E. Butler
„Our house is on fire. I am here to say, our house is on fire. […] Adults keep saying: “We owe it to the young people to give them hope.” But I don’t want your hope. I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act. I want you to act as you would in a crisis. I want you to act as if our house is on fire. Because it is.“
— Greta Thunberg
„Don’t be with him, don’t want him, don’t go with him. Be with me. Want me. Stay with me.I don’t know how to be without you.“
— Cassandra Clare
„I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.“
— Ernest Hemingway