Needing Quotes

“I believe writing is a gift God gave us to share His thoughts poured out upon us! Writing is a talent needing care and comfort; open up and let the Lord inspire you!”
― Mary Kate

“There is wanting and there is needing, and when you want, you can make good choices, but when you need, it’s important the people around you not be looking to take advantage.”
― Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream

“Max.
God, but she was stubborn. And tough. And closed in. Closed off. Except when
she was holding Angel, or ruffling the Gasman’s hair, or pushing something
closer to Iggy’s hand so he could find it easily without knowing anyone had
helped him. Or when she was trying to untangle Nudge’s mane of hair.
Or-sometimes-when she was looking at Fang.
He shifted on the hard ground, a half-dozen flashes of memory cycling
through his brain. Max looking at him and laughing. Max leaping off a cliff,
snapping out her wings, flying off, so incredibly powerful and graceful that
it took his breath away.
Max punching someone’s lights out, her face like stone.
Max kissing that weiner Sam on Anne’s front porch.
Gritting his teeth, Fang rolled onto his side.
Max kissing him on the beach, after Ari had kicked Fang’s butt.
Just now, her mouth soft under his.
He wished she were here, if not next to him, then somewhere in the cave, so
he could hear her breathing.
It was going to be hard to sleep without that tonight.”
― James Patterson, Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

“when a child is ridiculed, shamed, hurt or ignored when she experiences and expresses a legitimate dependency need, she will later be inclined to attach those same affective tones to her dependency. Thus, she will experience her own (and perhaps others’) dependency as ridiculous, shameful, painful, or denied.
- Dependency in the Treatment of complex PTSD and Dissociative Disorders 2001
Authors: Kathy Steele, Onno van der Hart, Ellert R. S. Nijenhuis”
― Kathy Steele

“The Memory Of You Is Like A Drug To Me”
― Jeremy Aldana

“Nothing is in the middle of somewhere, surrounded by everything, where everyone is someplace, and still lacking the someone, I need most.”
― Anthony Liccione

“It wasn’t as if she’d thought it through or anything, how what a person wanted wasn’t always what they needed, and what a person needed might be the last thing they could ever want.”
― Shannon Celebi, Small Town Demons

“That night she dreamed of the deer. Strangely, the animal was holding her. She cuddled close into the soft fur and touched and kissed it gently. In the morning her pillow was wet with tears.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards

“He's completely complicated. And lost. And frustrating. But we do something for each other. . . . We fit. We need each other.”
― Megan Erickson, Fast Connection

“Needing a purpose is one thing, needing success is a rotten thing.”
― Bear Rineheart

“If all you do is think about what you need, you’re no better than an animal in the woods, and no smarter either. To be human, you’ve got to want. It makes you smarter and stronger.”
― Dan Groat, Monarchs and Mendicants

“Start by loving, instead of needing.”
― Paolo Bacigalupi, The Water Knife

“Freedom is being whole on my own and not needing somebody else to complete me.”
― Christina Engela, Demonspawn

“Depression lives and grows in the swamp of need.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“We get so beat down by what we need, sometimes we forget how to want.”
― Dan Groat, Monarchs and Mendicants

“Bygones"

The weatherman says heavy rain,
instead it dribbles like an old man
unable to urinate.

In the small orbit of the car,
daylight clings to my collar, simmers in sweat, but I shall drive despite this meridian fry.
I travel in the tremble of tin and tires.

Up ahead, Barron Lake, your lost butterfly locket, Woodport, the warm rocks before the dive.

The sun legs gently over the turbine hills, and always with a little luck I find your house, where torn cotton knits dry on an iron gate, and a vintage bicycle sinks in the garden.

Over rum we discuss the length of our severance, agree to let bygones vanish amid the fray. Then kisses wheedle the lower back down till daybreak quiet as cat paws... treads the bedroom floor.”
― Robert Karaszi

“I don’t need you, but the world, sometimes, seems more peaceful and manageable when holding someone.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“Needing and getting don't always go together.”
― Rachel Spangler, Heart of the Game

“Words have never belonged to those who wrote them. Always to those who needed then.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“At sunset, just as the light from the fire became brighter than the light from the doorway, she finished. The skeleton lay across her lap, complete, claws wired to paws vertebrae strung like beads.

'Wake,' she whispered, while the light faded outside the door. 'Wake. Please.'

The bones lay motionless in her lap. She bowed her head. Please. Please, Bonedog. I'm never going to see my sister again, or my mother. I'm not going to see the Sister Apothecary or the abbess. I need one more friend. Please.

It was too much like the first time. The second impossible task was also the third. She had always known that she had gotten off too lightly, being handed the moon in a jar.

Fenris took her free hand, careful of her sore fingertips, and held it between his palms, waiting with her.

'Please,' she said again, and a single tear ran hotly down her cheek and splashed on to the white expanse of skull.

Bonedog yawned and stretched and woke.

Marra let out a sob of relief and buried her head in Fenris's neck. He held her in the crook of his arm while Bonedog stood up and bounced and cavorted around the hut.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“I'm waiting for you here, on a blighted boat, stalked by a devil I can't stop alone. I need you to wake up and help me, Arent. I need you.”
― Stuart Turton, The Devil and the Dark Water

“I screamed your name across the alley and you turned around. What I said didn’t make sense to you. What I said wasn’t for you, it was for me.”
― Dominic Riccitello