Best I Wished Sayings
182 I Wished quotes by 148 unique authors
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I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence...
— Marcel Proust
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I wished I could explain it to those I loved, my mother, to Japhy, but there just weren't any words to describe the nothingness and…
— Jack Kerouac
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I wished to be loved by another,' [Éowyn] answered. 'But I desire no man's pity.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in between so if they broke, you only lost one. I…
— Janet Fitch
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But now that I am old, moving every year closer to the end of my life, I also feel closer to the beginning. And I…
— Amy Tan
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I didn’t want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into the woods. Stones…
— Alice Hoffman
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Life is made up of meetings and partings. People come into your life everyday, you say good morning, you say good evening, some stay for…
— Cecelia Ahern
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I wished she’d never stop squeezing me. I wished I could spend the rest of my life as a child, being slightly crushed by someone…
— Gail Carson Levine
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I deserved the shaking and the headaches and the fact that every single time I took a breath I felt a squeezing in my chest,…
— Elizabeth Scott
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I think I wished for you all of my life.
— Cecelia Ahern
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I only knew what was in my mind, and I wished to express it clearly
— Ulysses S. Grant
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Taro came into the room, strands of hair flying free of the tie at the back of his skull, sweat plastering his cream-colored shirt against…
— Moira J. Moore
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You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously.…
— Hermann Hesse
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I wished she'd been smart enough, or loving enough, to realize everybody has burdens that crush them, only they don't give up their children.
— Sue Monk Kidd
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Through [my friends] I discovered what it was to love people. There was an art to it...which was not really all that different from the…
— Lucy Grealy
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We studied our angels for a few moments more, looking at where we had lain side by side in that sweet, quiet moment. I wished…
— Richelle Mead
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Although I have been through all that I have, I do not regret the many hardships I met, because it was they who brought me…
— Paulo Coelho
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I wished that the chains would break and the wind would sweep me up, up, up into the sky, beyond the clouds, beyond the sun…
— Mary Downing Hahn
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I disobeyed Ra's wishes, and so he ordered my onw father, Shu-" "Hang on," I said. "Shoe?" "S-h-u," she said. "The god of the wind."…
— Rick Riordan
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I wished that my job was baking muffins in a muffin shop, where all I'd have to do was crack eggs and measure flour and…
— Jennifer Weiner
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...occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally look…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.
— David Mitchell
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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…
— Victoria Alexander
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They are all I have left—the stars and the memory of the many times I wished upon them. But with all those wishes, I asked…
— Christopher Pike
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The sun was hot on my skin, too bright as it bounced off the white concrete and blinded me. I felt dangerously exposed. More fiercely…
— Stephenie Meyer
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