“I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.”

“I sighed and went back to filling out the application. The whole thing made me feel like my family didn’t think I had any right to want something of my own. It bothered me, but I knew I couldn’t hold it against them in the long run. We couldn’t afford the luxury of wants. We had needs.”

“I want to see my wife and children every day, I want to see my grass and blossoms and corn ... But above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.”

“I don't want to teach Pakistani's children to think like Americans...I just want them to have a balanced, non-extremist education”

“The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.”

“I was in love with her; couldn’t imagine my life without her in it; but at the same time, I wanted her to have better.”