Cases Quote by Louisa May Alcott

She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.

— Ann Brashares

“She didn’t need hope anymore because she knew the things you wanted weren’t necessarily the things that you needed. She knew that the things…

— Holly Hood

She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too…

— Jane Austen

“Her life was her own now and if there was happiness to be found, it was up to her to seek it. She couldn't,…

— Debbie Macomber

“I think all wishes are the same, really," she continued. "Whether they ask for this, that, or the other, what they are really asking…

— William Joyce

“...she had been too busy wishing things were different to find much time to enjoy things as they were.”

— Eleanor H. Porter

“She always wishes for the happiness of others like it's the most natural thing. Sometimes I worry... That she's sacrificing her own happiness.”

— Yū Satomi

“But it is fortunate,'' thought she, ''that I have something to wish for. Were the whole arrangement complete, my disappointment would be certain. But…

— Jane Austen

“In the days when wishing was having, I got what I wished and then I wish I hadn't.”

— Emma Donoghue

She had this desire for things that weren't good for her.

— Anonymous

She longed to feel something momentous. Sometimes her life seemed so little.

— Liane Moriarty

She knew that this was happiness, this was living as she had always wished to live.

— Daphne du Maurier