She Wished Quotes
38 quotes by 34 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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...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
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She wished she had a little yellow house of her own, with a flower box full of real flowers and herbs – pansies and rosemary…
— Francesca Lia Block
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Sometimes she wished for someone she could tell about her problems, just to be able to say, ‘I’m in love with a man and I…
— Abigail Reynolds
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Beauty loved him more than anything, her Beast boy, but, secretly, sometimes, she wished he would have remained a Beast.
— Francesca Lia Block
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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
Who Wrote These She Wished Quotes
34 authors contributed a total of 38 She Wished Quotes, led by these top contributors: