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He wished he could be anywhere else and anyone else but Here and Him. — James R. Silvestri

What are you most scared of?" she asked and I wished she hadn't. I didn't like admitting it.
"I'm scared of dying alone. — Kenya Wright

It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much. — David Hockney

I would have to find something else to bury here and I wished it could be Charles. — Shirley Jackson

She wished she had known back then. Known that happiness isn't a point in time you leave behind. It's what's ahead of you. Every single day. — Sarah Addison Allen

People souldn't be allowed to decide that they wished to remain a hostage — Ann Patchett

You ever taste some damn chicken so horrible, that you wished the chicken would show up at your house and show your lady how to cook him? — J. B. Smoove

I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. — Anais Nin

Like the hero of a fairy-tale Mr Norrell had discovered that the power to do what he wished had been his own all along. — Susanna Clarke

We were very happy' - it was such a pleasure to voice these things, she wished there were more words. 'Very happy — Rachel Joyce

I knew what he was saying, and I wished to God he was someone else, someone who didn't have to say things out loud. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Now that I could not go back I was not sure, after all, that I wished to go forward. It was a miserable sensation. — Anna Freeman

Whether you accept or reject the idea of God, the sacredness of all life is a goal devoutly to be wished — Carlton D. Pearson

Tom Farrell had always wished Hell on his boss. On New Years Eve ... Hell sent someone.
-Along For The Ride- — Thomas Amo

That left me room to work some seductive magic. I wished I knew some. — Brandon Sanderson

The siblings wished that if Mr. Poe were really jealous of them he would attend Prufrock Preparatory School himself, and they could work at the bank. — Lemony Snicket

Adante rolled her eyes. She wished human males were mythical. That'd be a nice reality to wake up to. — Jasmine Angell

I would remember how I had wanted her and hated her and wished she would leave me alone and never let me go. And I would miss her. — Amy Harmon

He couldn't keep his eyes off her face, wished she'd take off those damned sunglasses so he could see the eyes he'd known so well. — Ken Grimwood

I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself. — Abraham Lincoln

Sweet spoils won on a silken battlefield. Every inch belonged to him, and he would take it as he wished. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

She wished the man outside really were Thomas, so she and Billups could again have the same enemy and the same fear.O — Ayana Mathis

I wished I had died before I loved anyone but her. — Ernest Hemingway,

No wise man ever wished to be younger. — Jonathan Swift

I rather wished I'd stabbed him somewhere less awkward. — Glen Duncan

She wished now she'd brought that vibrator as a flashlight instead of leaving it on the couch. — Jill Shalvis

It is your own fault, said the little prince. "I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you . . . — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

He wished they could just be naked in his bed and not worry about words. Talking was overrated anyway. — Savannah Stuart

Have the courage to love yourself like you always wished someone would. — Vironika Tugaleva

I've always just wished that maybe someday people would care about the words that I wrote. — Taylor Swift

They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished. — Andrew Morton

Yesterday one has wished, to-day one attains the madly longed-for object, and to-morrow one will blush to think that one ever desired it. — Ivan Goncharov

It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author
and that he did not learn it better. — Friedrich Nietzsche

As I moved about the room I would encounter that silver wedge of a moon at this window or that, like some old beggar who wished to be invited in. — George Saunders

She wished to reach out to them but something in her stopped her from doing so — Ashwini Gopalkrishnan

I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people. — Khaled Hosseini

It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live. — Alexandre Dumas

...I ardently wished to die — Charlotte Bronte

How could an Angel break my heart? Why didn't he catch my falling star? I wish I didn't wish so hard. Maybe I wished our love apart. — Toni Braxton

What you experience is the accumulation of what you have thought about and wished for. — Steven Redhead

I knew everything happened for a reason. I just wished the reason would hurry up and make itself known. — Christina Lauren

To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished. — James Dickey

But alas! Like many another consummation devoutly to be wished, the actual performance was a disappointing one. — Fred Reinfeld

When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love. — Franz Schubert

This was one of those days--a day when you wished you had no ears and no skin with which to feel everything. — Benny Lindelauf

Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist. — Curtis Sittenfeld

I wished for her," he says. — Erin Morgenstern

The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished. — Edward A. Murphy Jr.

Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven,I oft have wished for Hell for ease from Heaven. — William Blake

Why was the host (victim predestined) sad?
He wished that a tale of a deed should be told of a deed not by him should by him not be told. — James Joyce

Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking. — Amy Tan

Presently it occurred to him that he wished he was sick; then he could stay home from school. — Mark Twain

I never had, or wished for, power over you. That isn't true, of course. I wanted the greatest power of all. but not advantage, or authority. — Shirley Hazzard

I wished I could draw the way her broad-shouldered body threw a shadow on the moonpale dust. How brave she looked just then. — Janet Fitch

It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier. — Ian McKellen

...but I believed in the existence of other and more vivid kinds of goodness, and what I believed in I wished to behold. — Charlotte Bronte

Even in past years, when I wasn't in the Super Bowl, I wished I was. — Brett Favre

Personally, I do not want to make you a man. Men are so very frail. Men break. Men die. No, I've always wished to make a god. — Pierce Brown

Group of us felt that ideas were being fed to us, whereas we wished primarily to explore our own questions and doubts, and find out where they led. — Carl R. Rogers

The hour I have long wished for is now come. — Teresa Of Avila

I knew that a man was not only himself but also who he wished to be. — Stephanie Dray

I deeply wished I could make the stars all come down and breathe them; disappear in them — Alfred De Musset

Pops, he was a singer's singer. I loved to hear my father sing. He just was so laid-back and cool. I always wished I could sing like Pops. — Mavis Staples

That's what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe about the
good old days when we wished we were dead. — Samuel Beckett

I have yet to hear of anyone who, on his deathbed, wished he'd spent more time at the office. — Joseph Stowell

If one wishes for revenge, before you know it, a hurt as bad as the one wished for will come upon the wisher. — CLAMP

I needed my daughter to disappear from my sight. If I could have had a wish, I would have wished her away. — Ben Marcus

Monogamy was an invention of men who wished to reduce the power of women over them. — Louis De Bernieres

Kenna gave herself to Alexander to do as he wished, welcoming it, aching for it. She had no control. She wanted none. She was his. — May McGoldrick

I wished for eternal and intriguing muteness. I would be the Mysterious Dumb Girl, the Enigmatic Elf. The human voice no longer interested me. — Lorrie Moore

Has there ever been a visitor to Ludlow who hasn't wished they lived there? — Jeremy Paxman

In these circumstances they did what most of us do, and, being ignorant of the truth, persuaded themselves into believing what they wished to believe. — Arrian

Why did so many die in the night? As though they wished to kiss us and deliver us with sweet dreams before taking their leave of the world. — Ruth Downie

AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching. — Mangosuthu Buthelezi

Occasionally Rebecca wished her son would not be so very kind to her, as though she was the losing pitcher on a Little League team. — Anna Quindlen

Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past. — Niccolo Machiavelli

[Magnus] held on to the boy, newborn in grave dirt and blood, and he wished that he had found him dead. — Cassandra Clare

The thing to be wished for, is not that the mountains should become easier, but that men should become wiser and stronger. — Edward Whymper

Someone gave me wishes and I wished for an embrace. — Leonard Cohen

Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness. — Arthur Helps

If a tear fell from my eyes,
Each time I wished you were with me,
I would have an ocean shore outside my door. — Stacey Chillemi

Joey wished there were some different world he could belong to, some simpler world in which a good life could be had at nobody else's expense. — Jonathan Franzen

I wished that I had died, it would have been better for everyone — Sue Whitaker

Forever wasn't real.
And I guessed, for me, that I was lucky it wasn't. But for others, I wished it was real, that they had forever. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

I think I wished for you all of my life. — Cecelia Ahern

She hadn't had such an adrenaline rush since she traveled around Europe with Conner. She just wished he were with her to keep her company. — Chris Colfer

The creator wished to look away from himself,
thereupon he created the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Weetzie wished she could shake blue glitter around all of them - keeping them sparkling and safe. — Francesca Lia Block

People were as they were, not not as he wished them to be. — Harry Turtledove

Aye, it's true. I've spent long years seeking a wee dove to adore. But not because I wished for one to tend. I've wanted one with whom I could soar. — Veronica Wolff

Sukhvinder wished that she could be more like Krystal: funny and tough; impossible to intimidate; always coming out fighting. — J.K. Rowling

What the fuck was wrong with me, I wondered. I wished there was a version of Pepto Bismol for verbal diarrhea, because I'd invest in it. My — Mariana Zapata

I wished that I had some other guardian of minor abilities. — Charles Dickens

She sometimes wished she was more thick-skinned, so that she could see nothing, feel nothing. — Kavita Kane

The long years had taught him that everything worked itself out given enough time, and some things would always be the way fate wished them to be. — Michelle M. Pillow

Victor wished he could trade abilities with Eli. But first he wiped the blood from the counter, and poured himself another drink. — V.E Schwab

I do not know what happened with your parents or why they did what they did. But in all the world, I could have wished for no daughter but you. — John Stephens

How many on their deathbeds wished they'd spent more time at the office - or watching TV? The answer is, No one. — Stephen Covey

As he wished always to appear in mourning, he clothed himself with the night. — Victor Hugo

She wished the days and months ahead of her would end. But the rest of her life continued to present itself, time ceaselessly proliferating. — Jhumpa Lahiri