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• Einstein uses his concept of God more often than a Catholic priest. Once I asked him:
  'Tomorrow is Sunday. Do you want me to come to you, so we can work?'
  'Why not?'
  'Because I thought perhaps you would like to rest on Sunday.'
  Einstein settled the question by saying with a loud laugh: 'God does not rest on Sunday either.'

  Leopold Infeld

  God, Sunday, Laughing

  Leopold Infeld (1941). “Quest: The Evolution of a Scientist”

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• You don't want me here, I don't wanna be here, so why am I here?

  Amanda Hocking

  Want

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• How come someone always saves the people who try to kill themselves and then makes them tell everyone how sorry they are for ruining their evening? I keep feeling like everyone wants me to apologize for something. but I'm not going to. I don't have anything to apologize for. They're the ones who screwed everything up. Not me. I didn't ask to be saved.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Sorry, People, Feelings

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• When I meet a woman who attracts me, I prefer women,' she said. 'And when I meet a man who attracts me, I prefer men.' 'You mean you haven't made up your mind yet.' 'I mean exactly what I said. I told you you wouldn't like it. Most people who ask want me definitely on one side or the other.

  Octavia Butler

  Mean, Men, People

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• Someday when you're twenty, maybe, I'll see you again. You'll be this hot soccer star at some great school, with a million guys more interesting than I am chasing you down. And you know what? I'll see you and I'll pray you want me still.

  Ann Brashares

  Soccer, Stars, School

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.188, Delacorte Press

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• If you don’t want me to be in love with you, you’re going to have to stop looking so lovely. First thing tomorrow I’m having your maids sew some potato sacks together for you.

  Kiera Cass

  Love You, Lovely, Together

  FaceBook post by Kiera Cass from Oct 07, 2012

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• “Don’t worry, there are many safeguards in place. Unless you want me to have Logan explain—” “No! I trust you.” He clutched his hands to his chest. “She… Gasp… Trusts me! Call for medical aid stat!” I swung at him, but he grabbed my wrist and pulled me to my feet. Snaking his arms around my waist, he said, “We need to celebrate this momentous occasion.” "What are we celebrating?" Jacob Ashon, Riley's father, asked from the doorway.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Father, Hands, Feet

  "Outside In". Book by Maria V. Snyder, 2010.

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• You said you'd kiss me if I lost Tank." - - "You want me to kiss you?" Oh boy. "You were happy I'd lost your puppy?" He was looking like he was still thinking about smiling as he glanced down at Tank, tucked under his arm. "No. That would make me an asshole." Right.

  Jill Shalvis

  Kissing, Boys, Thinking

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• Me: "If you want me to be a teenager, don't send me to Support Group. Buy me a fake ID so I can go to clubs, drink vodka, and take pot." Mom: "You don't take pot, for starters." Me: "See, that's the kind of thing I'd know if you got me a fake ID.

  John Green

  Mom, Teenager, Fake

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.214, Penguin

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• I don't want to beg or promise you things I can't give you. There isn't much of me to give, but what I have is yours. This is all up to you, Sadie. If you want me, I'm yours. If you can't do this, then I'll walk away and leave you alone. I swear.

  Abbi Glines

  Giving, Promise, Up To You

  Abbi Glines (2013). “Breathe”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• This is what it feels like to care about someone who doesn't feel the same. I'd only known how it felt to love someone who loved me just as fiercely. I'd never known rejection. I'd never wanted someone who didn't want me. The longing didn't go away with rejection.

  Abbi Glines

  Rejection, Going Away, Care

  Abbi Glines (2012). “While it Lasts”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• I'd worried that letting her get too close would break me. Unfortunately, I'd worried about that a little too late. Because I was broken. The Cage I was before Eva no longer existed. As much as I didn't want to admit it, I'd fallen in love with her. I'd allowed someone in and she hadn't want me. I hadn't been good enough. I never was.

  Abbi Glines

  Broken, Too Late, Want

  Abbi Glines (2016). “Sea Breeze Volume 1: Breathe; Because of Low; While It Lasts”, p.612, Simon and Schuster

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• You want me to be a man,older than you, who goes by the name of Roullard.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Men, Names, Want

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2009). “Sammy Keyes and the Hollywood Mummy”, p.252, Yearling

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• Even if I had stayed she wouldn't have ever wanted me. She didn't want me for anything more than a summer fling. I was a way of moving on for her.

  Abbi Glines

  Summer, Moving, Want

  Abbi Glines (2013). “While It Lasts”, p.244, Simon and Schuster

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• My shoulders sagged. Really, is it too much to ask that I be able to come home from a long day of work and relax? Oh, no. I have to come home and read a bunch of letters written to the love of my life by his fiancée, who, if I am correct, had him killed a hundred and fifty years ago. Then, as if that is not bad enough, he wants me to explain the Vietnam War.

  Meg Cabot

  War, Home, Years

  Meg Cabot (2009). “The Mediator #4: Darkest Hour”, p.57, Zondervan

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• I had always been a great talker and teller of tales. 'You should put a lock on that tongue of yours. It's long enough and sharp enough to slit your own throat,' our guardian warned me, the night before I left home to go to the royal court at Versailles ... I just laughed. 'Don't you know a woman's tongue is her sword? You wouldn't want me to let my only weapon rust, would you?

  Kate Forsyth

  Home, Night, Long

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• At John Schlesinger's funeral at a synagogue in St John's Wood some years ago the person I stood next to said to me encouragingly, 'Come on, Stephen - you're not singing. Have a go!' 'Believe me, Paul, you don't want me to,' I said. Besides, I was having a much better time listening to him. 'No. Go on!' So I joined in the chorus. 'You're right,' Paul McCartney conceded. 'You can't sing.

  Stephen Fry

  Believe, Years, Funeral

  Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.220, The Overlook Press

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• they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine

  Lucille Clifton

  Memories, Want, Remember

  Lucille Clifton (1993). “Next: new poems”, Bookslinger

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• You got a lot of ladies to get through. You’re still young. First love’s the sweetest, but it doesn’t last.” “Not ever?” I ask. Grandad looks at me with a seriousness he reserves for moments when he wants me to really pay attention. “When we fall that first time, we’re not really in love with the girl. We’re in love with being in love. We’ve got no idea what she’s really about—or what she’s capable of. We’re in love with our idea of her and of who we become around her. We’re idiots.

  Holly Black

  Girl, Fall, First Love

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• She wants me to take out Patton.” Barron’s brows draw together. “Take out? As in transform him?” “No,” I say. “As in take out to dinner. She thinks we’d make a good couple.

  Holly Black

  Couple, Thinking, Together

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• You want me to say something? Okay. Sometimes I think I am what you made me. And sometimes I don’t know who I am at all. And either way I’m not happy.

  Holly Black

  Thinking, Who I Am, Want

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• Laurel: I don't need a ring or a license, or a spetacular white dress. It's not marriage so much, or at all really, that matters. It's the promise. It's the knowing someone wants me to be part of his life. Someone loves me, that I'm the one for him. That's not just enough, it's everything.

  Nora Roberts

  Wedding, White, Knowing

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• I'd never seen anything more beautiful - even as I ran, gasping and screaming, I could appreciate that. And the last seven months meant nothing. And his words in the forest meant nothing. And it did not matter if he did not want me. I would never want anything but him, no matter how long I lived.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Beautiful, Moon, Seven Months

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• Just for once, I want someone to want me more than anybody else. To put me first.

  Mariah Fredericks

  Want, Firsts

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• I tried to be a better person for her– but it was to impress her, to get her to want me. But when I’m around you, I want to be better because… well, because it feels right. Because I want to. You make me want to become something greater than myself. I want to excel. You inspire me in every act, every word, every glance. I look at you, and you’re like… like light made into flesh. […] You have no clue how beautiful you are or how brightly you shine.

  Richelle Mead

  Beautiful, Light, Shining

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