I don't need anyone, I said.Then you cameI need I need! I NEED YOU. I needed you.What did you teach me?Not to need you.NOT TO NEED.

- Kate McGahan

I need them and they need me to need them

- Rosie Thomas, Iris & Ruby

I need you, Fern. I'm not going to lie. I need you. But I don't need you the same way Bailey did. I need you because it hurts when we're apart. I need you because you make me hopeful. You make me happy.

- Amy Harmon, Making Faces

Right, well, we've got to work out what we need. We've got to work out what we need, how we get it, and what we need to get to get what we need.

- Derek Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant

He roars, “What have you done?”I don’t answer. My heart beats crazy happy just to see her get across the iron. She’s not burned. She’s still human.“Zara.” His voice is measured. “I need her to maintain control.”“You don’t need to be in control. You’re all trapped. So there’ll be no more stealing boys, no more shooting arrows in the woods, getting people lost. It’s all over.” The metal is cold on my fingers.Devyn grabs more wire, starts another flight. A group of pixies leaps for him, screaming, a wild, chaotic mess. They start clawing at each other, lost in fear and hunger, angry. A pixie in a pink dress shrieks when another wearing a black gown lashes at her, slashing through the skin on her arm.“Zara?” The king tries to be calm and nice. He tries to look human. It doesn’t work. “Do you know what this means? Do you know the power that I’ll lose? The need? We will fight in here. We will kill each other.”“I know,” I say and my voice shakes as I stare at him, this man who is in my blood, but not me. He is not me. Still, I understand his need, his fear. He is stuck in this awful place where there is no moral way to move forward. “I’m so sorry.”And I am.

- Carrie Jones, Need

You don’t need a long beard to be a sage

- you need to be teachable.You don’t need gray hair to be wise

We have many needs in life,but the one thing we really need is to be needed by the one we need the most.

- Various

Need is not transitive, one may need without oneself being needed.

- Amitav Ghosh, The Shadow Lines

That unthinkable, adult truth: that need is not transitive, that one may need without oneself being needed.

- Amitav Ghosh, The Shadow Lines

Men need to be needed. When we are needed, we feel powerful. We thrive on helping a woman who needs us.

- C.T.