Wished Quotes
663 Wished quotes by 517 unique authors
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It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things…
— Mitch Albom
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When I told you I wanted to try, I spoke the truth. When I turned away, it was for my former court, and when I…
— Melissa Marr
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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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She tried to walk softly and wished the trees wouldn't stare at her so.
— Diane Duane
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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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A marriage is a private thing. It has its own wild laws, and secret histories, and savage acts, and what passes between married people is…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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...she merely wished to find a way out of the maze. She knew that she had become a burden to him: she took things too…
— Milan Kundera
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She wished he’d stop touching her. Not because she didn’t like it but because she liked it far too much. It made her hunger for…
— Nalini Singh
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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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I’ve often wished that I had some suave and socially acceptable hobby that I could fall back on in times like this. You know, play…
— Jim Butcher
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Oh, Eva." He rubbed his cheek against my damp face. "I must've wished for you so hard and so often you had no choice but…
— Sylvia Day
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Sometimes I’ve even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always.
— Deb Caletti
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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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She briefly wished she did have some sort of magic so she could shoot a bolt of lightning through his head.
— Marissa Meyer
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He remembers when he was very small his mother once said she wished happiness and adventure for him. If this does not count as adventure,…
— Erin Morgenstern
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I do not know what happened with your parents or why they did what they did. But in all the world, I could have wished…
— John Stephens
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We are now as I wished we could be then.
— John Green
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So this had been all I wanted, a boy who understood how I felt. Now, though, I sometimes wished for more.
— Sarah Dessen
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Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.
— Anne Sexton
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That was the first time I ever saw him smile. It transformed him from someone menacing to someone you wished you knew.
— Suzanne Collins
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It wasn‟t even desire. It was far more than that. It was love. Love. With a capital L and swirly script and hearts and flowers…
— Julia Quinn
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Fire supposed he needed to be there in order to give rousing speeches and lead the charge into the fray, or whatever is was commanders…
— Kristin Cashore
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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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From the outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living.
— Ray Bradbury
Who Wrote These Wished Quotes
517 authors contributed a total of 663 Wished Quotes, led by these top contributors: