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“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

“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

“Whether I am written as good or as bad, my wish is to be written as you are.”
― Sanu Sharma

“May I meet you someday like this
may there be no rush of saying goodbye
may there be no fear of interruptions
may all the emotions be poured out,
and every nook and cranny of my heart be emptied.”
― Sanu Sharma

“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

“Did you not hear me? The money is meaningless. The well's true treasure is in the desires, dreams, and wishes poured into those coins. That's what you stole.”
― Jake Wyatt

“Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better.”
― Jim Rohn

“A goal is not the same thing as a wish. A goal is something you work toward; a wish is something you hope will happen to you.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“There is this magical idea of sitting underneath a seemingly endless canopy of twinkling stars and wishing upon the one that is the brightest of all. Yet, do I want to wish upon the star, or do I wish to trust in the God who is massive enough to hold the galaxy that holds the star?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You are the finest part of me, and I may be the worst part of you, but in the end, I am what you never expect to be, and you are what I can only wish for.”
― Kapil Raj

“The difference between a wish and an expectation is setting a date and then taking action.”
― Sunny Istar Lee Founder of MMK

“I wish you'd gone with Alastir and Kieran,' he said quietly. 'You would be far away from here. Safe.'

I opened my eyes.

Casteel stared into the darkness. 'But I'm glad you're here. Spessa's End needs you. I need you.' He looked at me then. 'But I still wish you weren't here.'

I could accept that. 'I wish you weren't here,' I whispered.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“I wish we could have stayed there,' Preston whispered into her hair. 'Forever- impossibly. I'm sorry for saying all that inane nonsense about things only mattering because they don't last. That was hubris, I think. I don't want to die here.' I want-”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“Since I'm perfectly happy with the size of my assets, I'd wish for you to stop being such a pain in my ass.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“Worrying is wishing for what you don't want.”
― Nadine Dalton, Pineapple Pirates of the Caribbean: Part One

“If you should fail to comply with our wishes, said the man, you will have no occupation in this or any other field, and henceforth, the world will hold no place for you, ever.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

“My only wish is for the development of my motherland. If I say otherwise, I regret it.”
― Habibullah Bulbul - حبیب الله بلبل

“Be careful that you do not wait too long. Unspent wishes can be dangerous things.”
― Ethan M. Aldridge, The Changeling King

“I wanted to tell her that I would be safe, careful. I wanted to promise. But I couldn’t. I was separating us again. Maybe even forever. I wished the Divine created a Gift that stretched milliseconds into minutes. I wished He created me with such a Gift breathing life into my soul. He created a bright Unfortunate instead, and that was enough for what needed to happen.”
― Kailey Bright, Unity

“By the time we grow very old, all our wishes have either been granted, or they haven't. Some stay with us so long that they simply become part of who we are; they grow old with us, and might even turn gray, like our hair or our whiskers.”
― Kathi Appelt, Once Upon a Camel

“Do you wish�� to cross the bridge?”
― E. K. Mosley, The Last Stardog

“Do you dare to follow your dreams to fruition?”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“A wish without a potential is just a fixation.”
― Zinny Ekechukwu

“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

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

“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