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He called dreams a 'royal road' into the unconscious, made up of all forbidden wishes you had and you wished you didn't — Jodi Picoult

I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was. — Olivia Thirlby

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

I wished I had been able to make her look that way, but it is the destiny of a lover to watch unhappiness hardening like a cast around his mistress. — Graham Greene

She had a great respect for books herself, and she wished that she had read more. One could never read enough. Never. — Alexander McCall Smith

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

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well. — Jennifer Aniston

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

Sawyer was quiet for a moment as he studied her. She wished he would take off his sunglasses. She didn't like how uncomfortable she looked. — Sarah Addison Allen

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

She wished she had candy, but she hadn't settled on a new hiding place to thwart the nefarious Candy Thief. — J.D. Robb

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

He wished he understood women better. It was a well-known fact that they did not mean half of what they said.
But which half did they mean? — Mary Balogh

That night on TV, I saw the tattoo I wished my life had warranted. If you have not known suffering, love me. A Russian murderer beat me to it. — Jenny Offill

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

A part of me suddenly wished I hadn't dressed up like a schoolmarm. — Vi Keeland

Ah! The English language was a wonderful thing! You could always find the right word. He only wished he could speak the language. — Terry Jones

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

The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week. — Voltaire

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

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom. — Livy

As a customer's man, his best brokerage work was securing the old age of his clients: time for them to do what they wished. — Edward Hoagland

Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die. — Stephen Jay Gould

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again". — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found. — Douglas Coupland

No one was my master - but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared. — Sarah J. Maas

We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street. — Aimee Bender

I wished critics would judge me as an author, not as a woman. — Charlotte Bronte

Satanic Verses is a despicable book that could not have been written by a person who wished to behave decently and responsibly. — Orson Scott Card

As I have yet to meet a gentleman I wished to spend the rest of my days with, I would say the failure was on their part rather than mine. — Victoria Alexander

I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely. — Julie Andrews

I set down in a chair by the window and tried to think of something cheerful, but it warn't no use. I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. — Mark Twain

I wanted to be a ballet dancer. I was bad - I'm not very coordinated. But I always wished I could have been a dancer. — Gia Coppola

and Bill broke a cheerful silence for the first time to say he wished he hadn't lost his ocarina with his kit, because he had never had a better one. — Angela Thirkell

It was times like these I wished for invisibility superpowers or a diagnosis of insanity. Dr. — Penny Reid

He wished for access to all the world's languages at once, for then he would have a better word for how he felt and what she was. — Julie Anne Long

You sounded like someone who should be singing on a cruise ship. Halfway through your song, I wished the ship was sinking. — Simon Cowell

If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers. — Frederick The Great

She wished that when her heart was beating double, she could give one of those hearts to him and then press her ear to his chest and feel it beating. — Lauren DeStefano

Butch tightened his grip on his cell and wished there were an app that let you reach through a phone and bitch slap someone. — J.R. Ward

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word? — John Guare

On the placidly flowing river of time, he wished only to make a few ripples: he shrank from diverting its course. — Arthur C. Clarke

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people. — Judy Garland

People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were. — Edward R. Murrow

I didn't let what I wanted to do become a made up memory that I looked back on years down the road and wished it was real. — S.A. Tawks

And a part of you wished it would just end, said the monster, even if it meant losing her. — Patrick Ness

She wished he weren't so damned fit. Running away was a lot harder when the guy you were fleeing kept in such an excellent shape. -Cath Talarico — Ruthie Knox

If I hold you with my emotions,
you'll become a wished-for companion. — Rumi

I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure. — Mark Twain

Not for the first time, he wished he commanded a highly trained bunch of soldiers instead of a ragtag mob of rejects in varying stages of alcoholism. — Chris Wooding

I always wished I had a song like that George Strait song, 'The Chair', 'cause it's basically just a guy trying to pick up a girl at a bar. — Blake Shelton

I wished for impossible things. It was never going to have been a fairy tale for us. There are no fairy tales about two princesses. — Erin Bow

I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others. — Thomas Jefferson

And there had been times when he wished he'd been born into a different family. — Nicholas Sparks

Fiction, for me, is sort of a protracted way of saying all the things I wished I said the night before. — Christopher Buckley

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Irena Sendler never thought of herself as a hero. She only did what she felt she must, and wished she could have done more. — Marcia K. Vaughan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Isidor thought for a moment he had gone mad, and that he wished his valet to cut his throat. — William Makepeace Thackeray

For a few minutes I wished that Dante and I lived in the universe of boys instead of the universe of almost-men. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

The devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for ... — Tucker Max

He had to be a hero for her. He wished the world still had dragons so he had something to slay for her. — Tiffany Reisz

I'm so glad I didn't die on the various occasions I have earnestly wished I might, for I would have missed a lot of lovely weather. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

Sometimes I've even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always. — Deb Caletti

A most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others. — Charles Dickens

What a selfish boy you are. You wished for the world but all you received were the skies. — F.K. Preston

If this was just a dream she wished she could have it every night. Neal not quite whispering sweet somethings into her ear. — Rainbow Rowell

Tsze-kung wished to dispense with the sacrifice of a sheep for the New Moon ceremony. The Master said, "You love the sheep; I love the ceremony. — Confucius

How she wished she'd asked Father more about this Jack Ludgrove instead of storming out in a huff. — Robin Lee Hatcher

For all the claims one hears about the liberating impact of the data-net, the truth is that it's wished on most of us a brand-new reason for paranoia. — John Brunner

If somebody ever wished to be me for a day, they'd be the most pissed-off person once they got here. They would be, like, in hell. — Jennifer Aniston

A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good. — Pliny The Elder

There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart's Desire. — Neil Gaiman

I have wished a bird would fly away,
And not sing by my house all day ... — Robert Frost

I was a child who had a life, who had hopes, and I wished that a bomb would not fall on my head. — Marjane Satrapi

But for half a minute she wished it was a different sort of day, even though she knew that nothing good could come from wanting at the world. — Patrick Rothfuss

Beauty loved him more than anything, her Beast boy, but, secretly, sometimes, she wished he would have remained a Beast. — Francesca Lia Block

And as for her sister,he wished a strong wind would just blow her away. — Johanna Lindsey

If God had so wished, he could have made all Indians speak one language ... the unity of India has been and shall always be a unity in diversity. — Rabindranath Tagore