Inclination Quote by Ann Brashares

So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped.

— Louisa May Alcott

“I think all wishes are the same, really," she continued. "Whether they ask for this, that, or the other, what they are really asking…

— William Joyce

“Perhaps the reason she was so unhappy was because she thought unhappy thoughts.”

— Wanda E. Brunstetter

She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair.

— Patricia Briggs

She had this desire for things that weren't good for her.

— Anonymous

She wondered what she thought of herself, and came to the realization that she felt mostly indifference towards her entire life.

— Anonymous

“...she had been too busy wishing things were different to find much time to enjoy things as they were.”

— Eleanor H. Porter

“I think we go about desiring things all day long, and then wondering why we’re unhappy.”

— Timothy Ferriss

“But there was, she knew, something else. Happiness, she supposed. Whatever that might be. What, exactly, she wondered, was happiness. Very positively she wanted…

— Nella Larsen

“There was a certain bitter humor to lying awake wishing for something one cannot have, after lying awake not so long ago wishing for…

— Robin McKinley

“She always wishes for the happiness of others like it's the most natural thing. Sometimes I worry... That she's sacrificing her own happiness.”

— Yū Satomi

She longed to feel something momentous. Sometimes her life seemed so little.

— Liane Moriarty