Wish Quotes

“When the tension between "being" and "becoming" is too high, we may be caught in the cycle of perpetual yearning and remain locked in a state of potentiality, forever suspended between wish and fulfillment. If we refuse to commit to concrete steps toward self-actualization, we risk losing our ability to truly engage with the world. ("Like a fallen star")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“He opened the door wearing an oversized wife-beater and dirty trunks to match. Funny, but he recognized me withouta struggle. Immediately, I assumed he was sober, which was a good thing. Yet, seeing me wasn’t expected or desired. For sure, I was the last person on his list of surprises. Jerry adjusted his head and sharpened his bloodshot eyes. It wasthen his booze-bated breath greeted me well before he did. Ok, he was in a stupor or maybe on the rebound. Next, soiled diapers stole the little oxygen I had left—and I was still OUTDOORS.
Yet somehow, I mustered enough wind to greet my brother. I tried to beat him to the punch and said, “What’s up bruh?” What happened next stomped my soul me for years to come! He never bothered to truly acknowledge me. Yet, heresponded without hesitation, “You know I can’t have

any company!” Then he violently slammed the door shut! Jerry was gone! I couldn’t differentiate
from being stupid or dumbstruck. I just stood silent on his porch all alone for about five minutes. I’d dealt with Jerry’s nastiness many times before. But he would initially warm up before dropping his hammer. Without a doubt, l was lost, confused, and bewildered like a teen-age boy losing a prom date. Foolishly, I used logic to dissect my embarrassment.
First, the guy scolded me as if I should’ve known better! To be fair, Jerry was the breadwinner. His wife left him years ago. That part I understood. Only a fool would have hung around his crazy ass. It was amazing they got together, let alone stayed that way long enough to create those children. Yet, all his kids were pushing the ages of twenty andabove. What the hell did he mean, “I can’t receive any company!” Of course, I heard those crying babies which madehim a granddaddy. That was strangely obvious to his existence. Yes, the cycle continues!
Second, I really didn’t care to go inside. I didn’t want to be in his business. I just wanted his input on Aunt Kathy’s memorial.”
― Harold Phifer, My Bully, My Aunt, & Her Final Gift

“You know, I used to have this theory that if I wanted something badly enough, the universe would make sure to keep it just out of my reach. Like a cruel joke, or a trick. But . . . maybe the cruelest trick the universe can play on us is to give us exactly what we wish for.”
― Ann Liang, I Am Not Jessica Chen

“Make a wish, Jessica would always tell me, and I always did.
But right now, there’s nothing else I’d wish for except this.”
― Ann Liang, I Am Not Jessica Chen

“Bay leaves granted wishes as July turned into August. I wrote a wish on the leaf and kissed it three times in front of the moon, and then I slept with the scent of bay wafting from under my pillow. Rose said my wishes smelled like chicken soup and Thanksgiving turkey. But really my wish smelled like Aunt Ruth’s cinnamon rolls and ash soap, the special kind of soap she pulled from under the sink when we had a bad dream.”
― Valerie Dunsmore, Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit

“Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors”
― Voltaire

“may your circle of heart-people
be a beautiful frame
for the masterpiece of yourself,
never more precious than the painting inside.”
― Diana Cosma, Ugly Crying: The Grief Side of Love

“What we are selling is not escapism, but reassurance.”
― John Hench, Designing Disney

“I remember my father telling me that – A wish was not a wish until it was wished,” Carya says with a grin.

Kahu nods, "Your father understood the power of intent.”
― James Qualls, A Gathering of Dreams

“If (a girl or) a woman rejects me, I wish her best of Luck to find someone better.”
― Sino Melo

“Haloperidol is one of the worst Medications ever, it causes unfathomable Pain that I'd not even wish for my worst Enemy + it's unnecessary and uncontrollable Pain, that's why I don't chase it.”
― Sino Melo

“If they wanted to
They Would”
― Unknown

“It would be very nice if there were a god who created the world and was a benevolent providence and if there were a moral order in the universe and an afterlife, but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be”
― Sigmund Freud

“He may very well be responsible for her undoing. But she would be his end.”
― Sara Flanagan, Wish

“We all become monsters with enough time and the right motivations.”
― Sara Flanagan, Wish

“What makes you think I’ll ever appreciate this?”

Mora averted her gaze and her voice became soft and quiet. “A dead man can’t hurt you.”
― Sara Flanagan, Wish

“She stroked her thumb over his cheek, nearly losing herself in his dark, endless stare. “I vow I will do everything in my power to get us through. And if we are separated, I vow to find my way back to you the moment I’m able.”

Something pulsed in her chest as a pleasant, warm shiver ran up her spine. It curled around her bones, almost like a wish. Only this felt right. Wanted.

Zadriel sucked in a breath through his teeth, clutching her hand tighter. “You shouldn’t have done that.”
― Sara Flanagan, Wish

“Together,” he whispered, “I vow we’ll find our way through this together.”
― Sara Flanagan, Wish

“I will never make it easy for you, Andras. You can control me, torture me, drag me to the bowels of hell if that suits you. But don’t think for a second I won’t take you down with me. I’d recommend you ask Dother his opinion, but I can assure you he’s very dead.”
― Sara Flanagan, Wish

“Zadriel’s warm tongue trailed over the mark he’d left, his breath coming out in soft, satisfied pants. “You have no idea what you do to me,” he said against her skin. “No idea what I want to do to you.”
― Sara Flanagan, Wish

“When the creature spoke again, Mora could feel the words. They caressed her skin, brushing against her with an eerie fondness as the being practically sang, “I see lifeblood dripping through clenched fingers, vessels bursting in pleading eyes. But you will not wish to be saved. Not in the way he intends.”
― Sara Flanagan, Wish

“When I look at you, I can hardly breathe.” His black eyes sparkled as more tears, happier tears, fell, and her soft fingers were already there to catch them. “You’re an exquisite force of nature and I will never understand why the Mother thought I was a worthy mate.”
― Sara Flanagan, Wish

“He asked himself why he wanted his mother back. And his answer was because he was lonely. Because there was now a big, gaping hole where his heart used to be. But it wasn't loneliness, not really. Now that his mom was gone, Hart realized, he was completely without love in his life. It came to him with so much clarity, what he needed to wish for. He couldn't boil it down to anything smaller. He only needed a little anyway. It would go a long way.
He put the seed in the ground, closed his tear-soaked eyes, and spoke his wish out loud. "I wish for love."
The next day, he walked into a gas station store and found his love there waiting for him.”
― Goldy Moldavsky, Of Earthly Delights

“I know everyone would like it to be over. I wish I could believe that myself. But we cannot always believe what suits us.”
― C.J. Sansom, Revelation

“If your wish is strong enough, you may end up actually doing something to make it come true.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Wizard in the Tree

“Wish without worrying.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Prayer for My Son

The low river flows like smoked glass.
Small bass guard their nest. Next
To our house, the cardinals in their
Crabapple feed two open mouths.
Parents and offspring, we flex
And swing in this future’s coming,
Mirror we look into only darkly.
My youngest is boarding an airplane
To a New York he’s never seen.
Raised in such slumberous innocence
Of Bible schools and lemonade,
I adjust poorly to this thirst for
Fame, this electronic buzz prizing
Brilliance and murderers. Oh son,
Know that the psyche has its own
Fame, whether known or not, that
Soul can flame like feathers of a bird.
Grow into your own plumage, brightly,
So that any tree is a marvelous city.
I wave from here by this Indian Eno,
Whose lonely name I make known.”
― James Applewhite, Selected Poems

“I wish I could have lived in a kind world. Without anxiety. Without fear. Without hurting other people. Without being hurt myself. Only doing the right things. I wish I could have followed the shortest path to the kind world I wish for.”
― Natsuki Takaya, Fruits Basket, Vol. 21

“The worst part about being mothered was her own pathetic need to be mothered.”
― Cory Doctorow, Walkaway

“It had taken Tammy a long time to realize that she didn't deserve to be treated as if she was nothing, that even with these stretch marks on her stomach from five pregnancies, she was beautiful and kind, worthy of love. She wished she had met her current boyfriend sooner. He was a local police officer who took Tammy out for steak on their first date and treated her with respect. Funny, with the best smile, he was also a good role model for her children. She was happy that she had finally achieved her dream of becoming a nurse, she told her family, but she was sorry that whole decades had passed before she had done something meaningful with her life.”
― Lizzie Johnson, Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire