Wished Quotes

663 Wished quotes by 517 unique authors

The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has… — Margaret Atwood
He really wished she would stop fingering the brick. — Larissa Ione
I've wished for things and never really had the chance...It's time to stop dreaming and do something about it. You've got to know what you… — Deb Caletti
Staring at her face, she began to fancy her outer layer had begun to melt away while she wasn't paying attention, and something -- some… — Laini Taylor
It was frustrating when people loved you and took an interest in you and sometimes worried about you and personally cared what you did with… — Ann Brashares
I had seen ardency in men's eyes, but I had only felt it once. With Flauvic, false and therefore easy to dismiss. I suddenly wished… — Sherwood Smith
I hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired, and coveted, is… — Alexandre Dumas
The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself. I was a child then, I had no… — Beatrix Potter
Each day had a tranquility a timelessness about it so that you wished it would never end. But then the dark skin of the night… — Gerald Durrell
Though if love was an animal, Garret knew, it would probably be the Loch Ness Monster. If it didn’t exist, that didn’t matter. People made… — Tao Lin
Here it comes. My inevitable death, ignoring me all those years when I wished for it daily, arriving only after I've decided I want to… — Isaac Marion
For I was never able to understand, then or later on, why, if one wanted to do a thing, one should not do it. For… — Isadora Duncan
Not for the first time, he wished he commanded a highly trained bunch of soldiers instead of a ragtag mob of rejects in varying stages… — Chris Wooding
Then I heard someone laugh. I wished I didn't know whose laugh it was, but I knew Will's laugh just like I knew he had… — Elizabeth Scott
He was making her feel small and absurdly petulant and, worse yet, she suspected he was right. She always suspected he was right. For a… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
You may not feel outstandingly robust, but if you are an average-sized adult you will contain within your modest frame no less than 7 X… — Bill Bryson
Not for the first time, I wished both of us could just say what we meant. But that, like so much else, was impossible — Sarah Dessen
I wish you did return my regard," he said. "More than I have ever wished anything in my life! Perhaps you may yet learn to… — Georgette Heyer
God, it was good. Comforting and stimulating at the same time. Absolute world-class pheromones. I wished I could take his jacket home with me. Not… — Lisa Kleypas
[He] didn’t like to think of himself as vain, but there were definitely times when he wished there was someone on hand to take his… — David Nicholls
Not that I wish to give you any ammunition, but the sad fact of it is-most men are sheep. Where one goes, the rest will… — Julia Quinn
If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my… — Evelyn Waugh
You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is… — Marquis de Sade
We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street. — Aimee Bender
I'm pretty sure I can say that no one in my family ever asked Demetrie what it felt like to be black in Mississippi, working… — Kathryn Stockett

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