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"Realize that change - whilst we want it to happen fast - is usually the result of a great deal of work, and often comes as a result of a series of compromises (so long as we do not compromise our values)."
"I don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don't want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There's so much mystery. There's so much awe."
"I didn't want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field."
"What can I say? I've never met a cupcake I didn't want to get to know better."
"Oh, I know I can sing. What I really want to be is an actress."
"If you want the old me, go buy my old albums."
"I want to be here, for my family. I want to be here for my baby. I want to see the birth of my baby."
"Childhood knows what it wants - to leave childhood behind."
"Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her."
"I do not understand! I understand nothing! I cannot understand nor do I want to understand! I want to believe! To Believe!"
"Anytime you want to lay off the paybacks God, that'd be great."
"Maximus grunted. "Some days you remind me of Vlad." "Meaning?" I said sharply. "Your obsession with revenge. Next you'll want to drive a pole through that vampire once you find her." The thought was appealing, but..."
"You don't have body parts there do you?" my mother interrupted. "I don't want to open the fridge and find a head on the shelf" Rodney laughed. "No Justina, it doesn't look like Jeffrey Dahmer's hideaway."
"He also deeply distrusts vampires, as you had guessed yourself,” Bones added. “Aside from that, all I heard was enough repetitions of ‘how many chucks could a woodchuck chuck’ to make me want to stake myself."
"I dare because I want no misunderstanding between us. I am everything you think I am, but I love your daughter, and what I love, I protect with all of the violence in me, which, as you've guessed, is considerable."
"Let me get this straight. you want me to go stomping through a graveyard brandishing a bottle of booze to rouse an unrestful spirit so that I can interrogate him?" - Cat to Bones"
"It was the sort of bone deep emotion that made him want to hold her tighter with one hand, and draw a sword against the world with the other."
"I want to know all of you, Kitten. What you show me, and what you try not to."
"I'm great as bait! All the vampires want to eat me!"
"How could you be nervous about asking me to marry you, Bones? I'd die for you. Why wouldn't I want to live for you as well?"
