Magic," her mother said, "is a kind of hope. And wishes…

“Prayer was never meant to be magic,' Mother said. 'Then why bother with it?' Suzy scowled. 'Because it's an act of love,' Mother said.”

— Madeline L'Engle

Hope and wishes for all that delights will sour in the midst of action not taken and words unsaid.

— Maximillian Degenerez

I hope everyone's wishes and dreams come true.

— Jill Zarin

Keep your wishes like a tattoo on your heart, keep holding hope and love to survive.

— Anonymous

“. . . wishes are like magnifying glasses they enlarge and focus an intention that is already inside us.”

— Stephen Mitchell

It takes some people a trillion wishes to find someone like you.

— Author Name

“Every one has wishes which he would not like to tell to others, which he does not want to admit even to himself.”

— Sigmund Freud

“But wishes, like fairies, are fickle things. They rarely do what you want them to do.”

— Hazel Gaynor

“Well! what is there remarkable in all this? Why have I recorded it? Because, reader, it was important enough to give me a cheerful…

— Anne Brontë

To achieve long-term success over many financial market and economic cycles, observing a few rules is not enough. Too many things change too quickly…

— Seth Klarman

“My mother always said - "Never run after a man or a bus - there is always another one coming.”

— Tessa Kiros

“Morgan said that his mother said that Miss Kildaire is sitting on a shelf." Zach had to think about that one for a few…

— Nalini Singh

A few months ago I was visiting my mother, and she said that as a child I had always wanted to learn everything, and…

— Mark Jason Dominus

“My mother said my father had a drop of dragon blood.” “Two drops. That, or a cock six feet long.”

— George R.R. Martin

“Your shoes, mother,” he said. He had never called her mother, not in his whole life.”

— Kyle Minor