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Wishing Quotes

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Tom Bodett
“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
Tom Bodett

George Eliot
“It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.”
George Eliot

Lana Del Rey
“I once had a dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events some of those dreams dashed and divided like a million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again, sparkling and broken.
But I didn't really mind, because I knew that it takes getting everything you ever wanted, and then losing it to know what true freedom is.”
Lana Del Rey

Lemony Snicket
“Wishing, like sipping a glass of punch, or pulling aside a bearskin rug in order to access a hidden trapdoor in the floor, is merely a quiet way to spend one's time before the candles are extinguished on one's birthday cake.”
Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

Anthon St. Maarten
“Dare to dream! If you did not have the capability to make your wildest wishes come true, your mind would not have the capacity to conjure such ideas in the first place. There is no limitation on what you can potentially achieve, except for the limitation you choose to impose on your own imagination. What you believe to be possible will always come to pass - to the extent that you deem it possible. It really is as simple as that.”
Anthon St. Maarten

Lana Del Rey
“Every night I used to pray that I’d find my people, and finally I did on the open road.
We had nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore, except to make our lives into a work of art.”
Lana Del Rey

Melina Marchetta
“Promise me you'll never stop dreaming.”
Melina Marchetta, Looking for Alibrandi

Patrick Rothfuss
“But no. There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.”
Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Patrick Rothfuss
“She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.”
Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Katherine Arden
“I carve things of wood because things made by effort are more real than things made by wishing.”
Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower

Sherrilyn Kenyon
“May you get exactly what you want and live long enough to regret it.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon, Born of Shadows

Carson McCullers
“Her face felt like it was scattered in pieces and she could not keep it straight. The feeling was a whole lot worse than being hungry for any dinner, yet it was like that. I want--I want--I want--was all that she could think about--but just what this real want was she did no know.”
Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

N.K. Jemisin
“Who misses what they have never, ever even imagined?”
N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

Cecelia Ahern
“People forget they have options. And they forget that those things don't really matter. They should concentrate on what they have and not what they don't have. And by the way, wishing and dreaming doesn't mean concentrating on what you don't have, it's positive thinking that encourages hoping and believing, not whinging and moaning.”
Cecelia Ahern, If You Could See Me Now

Hidekaz Himaruya
“I wish Italy would stop being a crybaby. I wish he would kick his bad habit of wanting to eat pasta everywhere. I wish he would stop getting a stomachache every time he ate geleto. I wish he would learn to throw a grenade properly. I wish his older brother would stop trying to punch me. I wish-"
*babble babble babble*
"Germany . . . That's impossible . . .”
Hidekaz Himaruya, Hetalia: Axis Powers, Vol. 2

Steve Maraboli
“My life changed the day I moved beyond just wishing for things and I started earning them. That is the day I learned that we don't get what we wish for, we get what we work for.”
Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Janet Fitch
“The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me.”
Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“I wish I could go to Paris right now.”
Emily J. Proctor, The Baseball Club for Girls

Hilary McKay
“Make a wish," said Indigo.
Rose made a wish and then asked, "Why?"
"That's what I always do. Wish on the moving ones."
"Does it matter how fast they move?"
"I don't think so."
"Can you wish on airplanes, too?"
"Oh, yes.”
Hilary McKay, Indigo's Star

Ahmed Mostafa
“May you find what you are looking for and realize it is not the answer.”
Ahmed Mostafa

Markus Zusak
“I stood there and stared, into the sky and at the city around me. I stood, hands at my side, and I saw what had happened to me and who I was and the way things would always be for me. Truth. There was no more wishing, or wondering. I knew who I was, and what I would always do. I believed it, as my teeth touched and my eyes were overrun.”
Markus Zusak, Underdog

Saša Stanišić
“If I were a magician who could make things possible, I'd have lemonade always tasting as it did on the evening Francesco explained how right it was for the Italian moon to be a feminine moon. If I were a magician who could make things possible, we'd be able to understand all languages every evening between eight and nine. If I were a magician who could make things possible, all dams would keep their promises. If I were a magician who could make things possible, we'd be really brave.”
Sasa Stanisic, How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone

Chelsea Sedoti
“You’d think I’d be used to this agony by now , but it always catches me off guard. Anyone who says grief fades over time is a fucking liar. It never goes away. It just gets better at hiding. You never know when it’s going to spring out of the shadows and sucker punch you in the gut.
Grief is a real asshole.”
Chelsea Sedoti, As You Wish

Steve Maraboli
“We can’t continuously be a society of well-wishers. We must take action to bring those wishes to fruition.”
Steve Maraboli

David Levithan
“If I were in a different body, this would be the time I would lean down and kiss her. If I were in a different body, that kiss could transform the night from off to on. If I were in a different body, she would see me inside. She would see what she wanted to see.

But now it's awkward.”
David Levithan, Every Day

P.L. Travers
“Michael, "I never expected the wish to come true."

The Trout, "Great Oceans! Why bother to wish it, then? I call that simply a waste of time.”
P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins Opens the Door

A.J. Darkholme
“Everything can be achieved through gradual steps â€� one small step at a time: overcoming fears, fulfilling dreams... anything you wish to be different from the way it is.”
A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar

Amanda Filipacchi
“Making wishes on the elephant is emotionally dangerous, because inevitably one's hopes rise abnormally high, unhealthily high, and when the wish does not come true, one's high hopes get crushed more painfully than if one had not asked for the help of supernatural powers. Therefore, one should always try to make the wish casually and forget about it instantly after making it, which is what I try to do now.”
Amanda Filipacchi, Nude Men

Alexis  Hall
“It didn't stop her from pretending, though. Imagining for a moment she could have a life like Harry's. Where your world was whatever you made of it and whoever you let into it and you were allowed to be happy with that.”
Alexis Hall, Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake

Erin Bow
“Plain Kate greased her boots and bandaged her feet, and soon she would walk like a Roamer born. She helped Drina with the water and the wood, and in the long, wet evenings she carved objarka burji.
Plain Kate carved fast and learned slowly. She was bewildered most of the time, but Daj called her mira again, and when she asked Drina what it meant, the girl replied, "It means she likes you. It means your family."
Family.
It could have kept her walking for a hundred miles. And she did walk far.”
Erin Bow, Plain Kate

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