She Wished Quotes

38 quotes by 34 authors

She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it was insane. Civilized… — D. H. Lawrence
When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on… — John Burroughs
I got a call this morning, and it was from Nancy Kerrigan, wishing me luck. She wished me luck and sent me all her good… — Michelle Kwan
She was tired of hugging pillows, counting on blankets for warmth, and reliving romantic moments only in her dreams. She was tired of hoping that… — Cecelia Ahern
He began to trace a pattern on the table with the nail of his thumb. "She kept saying she wanted to keep things exactly the… — Jodi Picoult
For tea she went down to see Misses Spink and Forcible. She had three digestive biscuits, a glass of limeade, and a cup of weak… — Neil Gaiman
...and again she wished for Sherwood, and the dappled roof of leaves that never weighed upon her. She pulled her scarf closer around her and… — Robin McKinley
She wished she had a little yellow house of her own, with a flower box full of real flowers and herbs â€“ pansies and rosemary… — Francesca Lia Block
She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in… — Carson McCullers
Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But she was no longer… — Garth Nix
She wished she hadn't succumbed to irritation. Because she wanted to know about his inner feelings. She always thought people were like pieces of art… — Christina Dodd
Emma dropped the paper. Her first impression was of a weak feeling in her stomach and in her knees; then of blind guilt, of unreality,… — Jorge Luis Borges
Sometimes she wished for someone she could tell about her problems, just to be able to say, â€˜Iâ€™m in love with a man and I… — Abigail Reynolds
Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she… — John Irving
But she wished she had had the guts to go up to him and say hello. Or possibly break his legs, she wasn't sure which. — Steig Larsson
Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away to regions of… — Gustave Flaubert
She read it again. It was fascinating and surreal, like reading a diary that had been hers when she was a teenager, secret and heartfelt… — Lisa Genova
Beauty loved him more than anything, her Beast boy, but, secretly, sometimes, she wished he would have remained a Beast. — Francesca Lia Block
She wished she could talk as he did. His speech was so quick and easy. It sounded as if he liked her and was not… — Frances Hodgson Burnett

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