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“In the old times, when it was still of some use to wish for the thing one wanted, there lived a King whose daughters…

— Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm

There once was a child, and he strolled about a good deal, and thought of a number of things. He had a sister, who…

— Charles Dickens

“Once Momma left, Evelyn stared back out at the sky, where the sparkle of the first star emerged. As a child, she'd always thought…

— Melissa Jagears

She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too…

— Jane Austen

For with eyes made clear by many tears, and a heart softened by the tenderest sorrow, she recognized the beauty of her sister's life—uneventful,…

— Louisa May Alcott

“Anne smiled and sighed. The seasons that seemed so long to Baby Rilla were beginning to pass all too quickly for her. Another summer…

— L.M. Montgomery

“She wished for a moment that they were all children again. It still seemed extraordinary to her, that everything had turned out the way…

— Sarah Waters

Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be…

— Robert Breault

Remember when we were young and life seemed so beautiful?

— Anonymous

“For she was really too lovely--too formidably lovely. I was used by now to mere unadjectived loveliness, the kind that youth and spirits hang…

— Edith Wharton

“Spring flew swiftly by, and summer came; and if the village had been beautiful at first, it was now in the full glow and…

— Charles Dickens

“This old dead hero had one only daughter left of his race; a beauty that, to describe her truly, one need say only, she…

— Aphra Behn