Jenny Zhang Quotes

Whatever you want too much you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less.

As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff.

Let's face it - no matter how independent you are, you still have this nagging need to be desired.

I love attention. Maybe my desire for attention is a little too out of control, but I'm very honest.

I spent my entire childhood going 'look at me, look at me, look at me,' before realising I needed someone to look at me for more than just what I was showing off for.

It doesn't matter how much you get; you are left wanting more.

It was beautiful Eric, who desired me, who was hungry for me, in a world that often let me know it could do very well without me.

A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source.

Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.

Sydney: Ever had that happen? Once you can’t have something, you want it that much more.” Adrian: “Yes. It happens all the time.

We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.

People are searching for something they don't have in their lives. There's an unfulfilled need.

Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.

Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.

When there is firm conquest over covetousness, they who have conquered it wake up to the how and why of life.

Sometimes you don't even know what you want until you find out you can't have it.

There's often a natural inclination to want more.

It's knowing I'll never have what she has--a beauty so powerful it brings things to you. I fear I will always have to chase things I want. I'll always have to wonder whether I'm truly wanted or whether I've just been settled for.

No matter how much you consumed, you would not have your fill.

Tracy: Stop eating people's old french fries, little pigeon. Have some self-respect. Don't you know you can fly?

It's wanting that gets so many folks in trouble.

Whoever desires is always poor.

When I drank, the part that felt dangerous and needy grew bright and strong and real. The part that coveted love kicked into gear. The yes grew louder than the no.