Best I Wished Words
182 I Wished quotes by 148 unique authors
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I would have to find something else to bury here and I wished it could be Charles.
— Shirley Jackson
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How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to none at all.
— W G Sebald
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I wished God were like He used to be, a few notches lower. I wanted Him to be lofty enough to help me but not…
— Joni Eareckson Tada
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I didn't feel empty. I wished I'd felt empty. ... I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Suddenly his expression turned to alarm. He sprinted toward us. For a moment I had an absurd vision of myself on the cover of one…
— Rick Riordan
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We are now as I wished we could be then.
— John Green
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You want to know what I was thinking?...I was thinking that I wished you'd been with me the last couple of days. I mean, I…
— Nicholas Sparks
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What I wished more than anything was that the thing hadn't happened at all, and I thought that by not mentioning it I'd be doing…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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I’m driving,” Louis-Cesare said, sliding into the low seat as easily as if he’d done it a hundred times. “You’re drunk.” I wished. “I had…
— Karen Chance
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He flipped the dail, and I crossed my arms over my chest as some vaguely European-sounding band sang about how video had killed the radio…
— Richelle Mead
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I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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I wished I could share my own optimism.
— Jasper Fforde
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I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.
— Charles Bukowski
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I once had a dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events some of those dreams dashed and divided like…
— Lana Del Rey
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I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people.
— Khaled Hosseini
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When I saw my wife again standing by the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I…
— Ernest Hemingway
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately...
— Henry David Thoreau
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There are children who will leave a game to go and be bored in a corner of the garret. How often have I wished for…
— Gaston Bachelard
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How could an Angel break my heart? Why didn't he catch my falling star? I wish I didn't wish so hard. Maybe I wished our…
— Toni Braxton
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I realised that if I wished to write about the dark and not allow for hope, people would recognise it as false - because hope…
— Richard Flanagan
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I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of…
— Joseph Beuys
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At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter.
— Luke Ford
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Somehow, I had the feeling that I was responsible for Harry being dead. I remembered all the times that I wished he were dead, all…
— Arnold Rothstein
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I would like to explore and see this country. I have had so many opportunities to see it from the air! I would like to…
— Janet Reno
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Suffocation...no breathing...do you even care if I die like this? I wished someone told me I mattered...
— Naquitta Faith
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