wish

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b12dea5	Be the change that you wish to see in the world.	action change philosophy inspirational wish	Mahatma Gandhi
ddf9ec7	"I wish...I wish were dead..." "And what use would that be to anyone?"	harry-potter severus-snape wish stress	J.K. Rowling
e516771	When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific.	funny humor inspirational goals-in-life wish	Lily Tomlin
d58d4f8	"Augustus," I said. "Really. You don't have to do this." "Sure I do," he said. "I found my Wish." "God, you're the best," I told him. "I bet you say that to all the boys who finance your international travel," he answered."	travel wish	John Green
5e0dbd6	To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is a foreshadowing -- the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again.	loss craving lack wish shadow need wholeness longing foreshadowing	Marilynne Robinson
d96ae8b	To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect	hope love wish expectations	Jane Austen
217e0ae	If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?	loss love jodi-picoult plain-truth wish remember sad memory	Jodi Picoult
c0383e0	Always face what you fear. Have just enough money, never too much, and some string. Even if it's not your fault, it's your responsibility. Witches deal with things. Never stand between two mirrors. Never cackle. Do what you must do. Never lie, but you don't always have to be honest. Never wish. Especially don't wish upon a star, which is astronomically stupid. Open your eyes, and then open your eyes again.	wish star	Terry Pratchett
55debcd	Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.	wish mystery	Garth Nix
a596e75	The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.	prayer wish	Jodi Picoult
1a54ef1	Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.	wanted truth wish children	Mitch Albom
e809783	Apparently, the world is not a wish-granting factory.	world wish	John Green
48f972a	And he will never know what it is to look up at the night sky and wish.	stars hope inspirational sarah-j-maas acomaf stargazing wish wishes night	Sarah J. Maas
2e94764	I wish sometimes that the gods would either choose better, or make their wishes clearer	wish gods	Jacqueline Carey
2d1d2f2	He wants to be grown-up. How different dreams can be! Nature will soon grant your wish.	grown-up wish	Cornelia Funke
f5ae23f	The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the years. And each droplet of comprehension brought its own small measure of hurt...He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some part of my soul still dangled, waiting for his return.	understanding fate pain sorrow comprehension farewell left choose leave part-ways separate wait sincere return seek realize hurt fitz wish follow knowledge desire fool soul	Robin Hobb
a21e9ac	"Thank you for letting me hijack your wish', I said. 'Thank you for wearing that dress which is like whoa," he said."	augustus-waters hazel-grace wish	John Green
ef19d79	"Don't wish,"said Rain, "don't start. Wishing only..."	rain wish wicked	Gregory Maguire
4827550	"I wish," I said. "I could save orgasms in a jar for when I need them, because I think I have a few extra."	sex jars orgasm-orgasms wish	Charlaine Harris
58188f0	Haven't you got any romance in your soul?' said Magrat plaintively. 'No,' said Granny. 'I ain't. And stars don't care what you wish, and magic don't make things better, and no one doesn't get burned who sticks their hand in a fire. If you want to amount to anything as a witch, Magrat Garlick, you got to learn three things. What's real, what's not real, and what's the difference.	magic romance magrat wish star	Terry Pratchett
22d402a	But I don't want more things than I need, either.	wish	Isabel Allende
7ac32d5	In the meantime, I'll wish it upon a star.'- Michael Cooper	hope love wish star	Julie Ann Knudsen
3bf34b9	But you don't always get what you want;,you get what you get	want life get wish desire	Anne Lamott
e566a4f	Perhaps it is better not to tell what you wish. if you cannot have it.	tolkien middle-earth wishing wish	J.R.R. Tolkien
56766e9	He imagined them sitting somewhere, just enjoying each other's company, her head on his chest, his arm around her. And he realized how desperately lonely he had become.	love lonley wish	Tim LaHaye
708f9cd	"He knew that people were staring at him. He looked different. Even different from other Erasers. He wasn't as --seamless. He didn't look as human as the rest of them did when they weren't morphed. He kind of looked morphy all the time. He hadn't seen his plain real face in --a long time. "I know who you are." Ari almost jumped --he hadn't noticed the boy slide onto the bench next to him. He frowned down at the small, open face. "What?" he growled. This was when the little boy would get scared and probably turn and run. It always happened. The boy smiled. "1 know who you are," he said, pointing at Ari happily. Ari just snarled at him. The boy wiggled with excitement. "You're Wolverine!" Ari stared at him. "You look awesome, dude," said the boy. "You're totally my favorite. You're the strongest one of all of them and the coolest too. I wish 1 was like you." Ari almost gagged. No one had ever, ever said anything like that to him."	wolverine superhero werewolf kid wish meeting sad	James Patterson
399aa36	"What is it?" "A prayer." "For a child?" She nodded. "For me?" Another nod. "On a tree?" "Trees spend all day looking up at God."	prayer god tree dialogue wish child	Mitch Albom
e7f40b5	"As soon as he was gone, we opened, "Baucis and Philemon." An elderly couple living in a cottage, they're granted a wish by Jove. They confer in private before Philemon asks, "May one hour take us both away; let neither outlive the other." The wish is granted. I said, "Simultaneous deaths? Why didn't they wish for eternal happiness instead? What else would anyone wish for?" "They did wish for that," answered Jamie."	love wish	David Guterson
158a6b2	Like many others, I grew up in an age that preached liberty and built slave camps.	wish liberty	Charles Simic
62aaaf8	"That wish - that prayer - both men and women would have scorned me for - "But, Father, Thou wilt not despise!" I said, and felt that it was true."	prayer love wish	Anne Brontë
99e1c45	He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some part of my soul still dangled, waiting for his return. That, I think, is the shock of any relationship ending. It is realizing that what is still an ongoing relationship to someone is, for the other person, something finished and done with.	pain relationship friendship love done choose connection depart final finish leave part-ways separate wait well return over sever wish soul	Robin Hobb
7b99d9f	Well, that was the end of me, the real end. Two pound ten every Tuesday and a room of the Gray's Inn Road. Saved, rescued and with my place to hide in - what more did I want? I crept in and hid. The lid of the coffin shut down with a bang. Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone. No more pawings, no more pryings - leave me alone.	happy love successful left-alone rescued room saved end wish hide coffin beautiful	Jean Rhys
4be4a96	My secret wish is right now to be romancing this dead girl. A dead girl. Any dead girl. I'm not what you'd call choosy.	romancing survivor wish girl dead	Chuck Palahniuk
1a94b26	Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish if we are to live in society. It is one I have long ago banished from my life. You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be.	live illusion people banished banishment cherish liking wish society be	John Fowles
dc15a91	If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride. -Lady Georgina Maitland-	wish george harry	Elizabeth Hoyt
42df2b0	"Sim sighed. "like Ross always said: Wish in one hand,shit in the other,and see which hand fills up first."	true shit wish	Keith Gray
75a66b1	Having long ago whispered , I now realize that this wish will indeed be fulfilled, and sooner rather than later. No matter that I've changed my mind about it.	fulfilled wish	Margaret Atwood
e60cc79	I never see a ship sailing out of the channel, or a gull soaring over the sand-bar, without wishing I were on board the ship or had wings, not like a dove 'to fly away and be at rest,' but like a gull, to sweep out into the very heart of the storm.	gull ship wish storm	L.M. Montgomery
8d5fdd8	Sylvi wished she could gouge out the look in Dorogin's stony eyes, and change the course of history. She wished Fthoom had been eaten by a sea monster.	gouge wish	Robin McKinley
7387074	"Nice girl. Wears too much makeup." "Most chicks hate her." "Most chicks wish they looked like her. And they wish they had her money and boyfriend." I stop and regard her in disgust. "Burro Face?" "Oh, please, Alex. Colin Adams is cute, he's the captain of the football team and Fairfield's hero. You're like Danny Zuko in Grease. You smoke, you're in a gang, and you've dated the hottest bad girls around. Brittany is like Sandy ... a Sandy who'll never show up to school in a black leather jacket with a ciggie hangin' from her mouth. Give up the fantasy."	hate fantasy colin-adams danny-zuko sandy brittany-ellis grease compare wish	Simone Elkeles
dea4822	"And then there's the other thing. The thing I'm trying to ignore. The thing I shouldn't want, the thing I can't have. And he's standing in front of me right now. So what do I wish for? Something I'm not sure I want? Someone I'm not sure I need? Or someone I know I can't have? Screw it. Let the fates decide. How's that for a generalization? I open my eyes, and the wind is blowing harder. St. Clair pushes a strand of hair from his eyes. "Must have been a good one," he says."	fate wish wishes	Stephanie Perkins
912a1ef	"We've stopped in front of Notre-Dame again. I point at the familiar star and clear my throat. "Wanna make another wish?" "You go first." He's watching me, puzzled, like he's trying to figure something out. He bites his thumbnail. This time I can't help it. All day long, I've thought about it. Him. Our secret. He steps on the coppery-bronze star after me and closes his eyes. I realize he must be wishing about his mother, and I feel guilty that she didn't even cross my mind. My thoughts are only for St. Clair. ( . . . ) Do I see the same St. Clair everyone else does? No. I don't think so. But I could be mistaking our friendship for something more, because I to mistake it for something more."	love wish wishes	Stephanie Perkins
53d77f1	Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. Almost no one gets a chance to alter the course of human events on purpose, in the exact same way they wish for it to be altered.	clearly penny fate human destiny fountain events wish	Barbara Kingsolver
873cf1f	I don't believe in magic, yet I see making wishes as a nod to hope, an acknowledgement of the power of will, the recognition of a goal.	magic wishes-quotes wishful-thinking wish	Cecelia Ahern

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

action change philosophy inspirational wish

Mahatma Gandhi

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"I wish...I wish were dead..." "And what use would that be to anyone?"

harry-potter severus-snape wish stress

J.K. Rowling

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When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific.

funny humor inspirational goals-in-life wish

Lily Tomlin

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"Augustus," I said. "Really. You don't have to do this." "Sure I do," he said. "I found my Wish." "God, you're the best," I told him. "I bet you say that to all the boys who finance your international travel," he answered."

travel wish

John Green

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To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is a foreshadowing -- the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again.

loss craving lack wish shadow need wholeness longing foreshadowing

Marilynne Robinson

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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

hope love wish expectations

Jane Austen

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If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?

loss love jodi-picoult plain-truth wish remember sad memory

Jodi Picoult

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Always face what you fear. Have just enough money, never too much, and some string. Even if it's not your fault, it's your responsibility. Witches deal with things. Never stand between two mirrors. Never cackle. Do what you must do. Never lie, but you don't always have to be honest. Never wish. Especially don't wish upon a star, which is astronomically stupid. Open your eyes, and then open your eyes again.

wish star

Terry Pratchett

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Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.

wish mystery

Garth Nix

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The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.

prayer wish

Jodi Picoult

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Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.

wanted truth wish children

Mitch Albom

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Apparently, the world is not a wish-granting factory.

world wish

John Green

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And he will never know what it is to look up at the night sky and wish.

stars hope inspirational sarah-j-maas acomaf stargazing wish wishes night

Sarah J. Maas

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I wish sometimes that the gods would either choose better, or make their wishes clearer

wish gods

Jacqueline Carey

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He wants to be grown-up. How different dreams can be! Nature will soon grant your wish.

grown-up wish

Cornelia Funke

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The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the years. And each droplet of comprehension brought its own small measure of hurt...He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some part of my soul still dangled, waiting for his return.

understanding fate pain sorrow comprehension farewell left choose leave part-ways separate wait sincere return seek realize hurt fitz wish follow knowledge desire fool soul

Robin Hobb

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"Thank you for letting me hijack your wish', I said. 'Thank you for wearing that dress which is like whoa," he said."

augustus-waters hazel-grace wish

John Green

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"Don't wish,"said Rain, "don't start. Wishing only..."

rain wish wicked

Gregory Maguire

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"I wish," I said. "I could save orgasms in a jar for when I need them, because I think I have a few extra."

sex jars orgasm-orgasms wish

Charlaine Harris

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Haven't you got any romance in your soul?' said Magrat plaintively. 'No,' said Granny. 'I ain't. And stars don't care what you wish, and magic don't make things better, and no one doesn't get burned who sticks their hand in a fire. If you want to amount to anything as a witch, Magrat Garlick, you got to learn three things. What's real, what's not real, and what's the difference.

magic romance magrat wish star

Terry Pratchett

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But I don't want more things than I need, either.

wish

Isabel Allende

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In the meantime, I'll wish it upon a star.'- Michael Cooper

hope love wish star

Julie Ann Knudsen

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But you don't always get what you want;,you get what you get

want life get wish desire

Anne Lamott

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Perhaps it is better not to tell what you wish. if you cannot have it.

tolkien middle-earth wishing wish

J.R.R. Tolkien

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He imagined them sitting somewhere, just enjoying each other's company, her head on his chest, his arm around her. And he realized how desperately lonely he had become.

love lonley wish

Tim LaHaye

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"He knew that people were staring at him. He looked different. Even different from other Erasers. He wasn't as --seamless. He didn't look as human as the rest of them did when they weren't morphed. He kind of looked morphy all the time. He hadn't seen his plain real face in --a long time. "I know who you are." Ari almost jumped --he hadn't noticed the boy slide onto the bench next to him. He frowned down at the small, open face. "What?" he growled. This was when the little boy would get scared and probably turn and run. It always happened. The boy smiled. "1 know who you are," he said, pointing at Ari happily. Ari just snarled at him. The boy wiggled with excitement. "You're Wolverine!" Ari stared at him. "You look awesome, dude," said the boy. "You're totally my favorite. You're the strongest one of all of them and the coolest too. I wish 1 was like you." Ari almost gagged. No one had ever, ever said anything like that to him."

wolverine superhero werewolf kid wish meeting sad

James Patterson

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"What is it?" "A prayer." "For a child?" She nodded. "For me?" Another nod. "On a tree?" "Trees spend all day looking up at God."

prayer god tree dialogue wish child

Mitch Albom

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"As soon as he was gone, we opened, "Baucis and Philemon." An elderly couple living in a cottage, they're granted a wish by Jove. They confer in private before Philemon asks, "May one hour take us both away; let neither outlive the other." The wish is granted. I said, "Simultaneous deaths? Why didn't they wish for eternal happiness instead? What else would anyone wish for?" "They did wish for that," answered Jamie."

love wish

David Guterson

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Like many others, I grew up in an age that preached liberty and built slave camps.

wish liberty

Charles Simic

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"That wish - that prayer - both men and women would have scorned me for - "But, Father, Thou wilt not despise!" I said, and felt that it was true."

prayer love wish

Anne Brontë

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He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some part of my soul still dangled, waiting for his return. That, I think, is the shock of any relationship ending. It is realizing that what is still an ongoing relationship to someone is, for the other person, something finished and done with.

pain relationship friendship love done choose connection depart final finish leave part-ways separate wait well return over sever wish soul

Robin Hobb

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Well, that was the end of me, the real end. Two pound ten every Tuesday and a room of the Gray's Inn Road. Saved, rescued and with my place to hide in - what more did I want? I crept in and hid. The lid of the coffin shut down with a bang. Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone. No more pawings, no more pryings - leave me alone.

happy love successful left-alone rescued room saved end wish hide coffin beautiful

Jean Rhys

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My secret wish is right now to be romancing this dead girl. A dead girl. Any dead girl. I'm not what you'd call choosy.

romancing survivor wish girl dead

Chuck Palahniuk

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Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish if we are to live in society. It is one I have long ago banished from my life. You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be.

live illusion people banished banishment cherish liking wish society be

John Fowles

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If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride. -Lady Georgina Maitland-

wish george harry

Elizabeth Hoyt

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"Sim sighed. "like Ross always said: Wish in one hand,shit in the other,and see which hand fills up first."

true shit wish

Keith Gray

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Having long ago whispered , I now realize that this wish will indeed be fulfilled, and sooner rather than later. No matter that I've changed my mind about it.

fulfilled wish

Margaret Atwood

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I never see a ship sailing out of the channel, or a gull soaring over the sand-bar, without wishing I were on board the ship or had wings, not like a dove 'to fly away and be at rest,' but like a gull, to sweep out into the very heart of the storm.

gull ship wish storm

L.M. Montgomery

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Sylvi wished she could gouge out the look in Dorogin's stony eyes, and change the course of history. She wished Fthoom had been eaten by a sea monster.

gouge wish

Robin McKinley

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"Nice girl. Wears too much makeup." "Most chicks hate her." "Most chicks wish they looked like her. And they wish they had her money and boyfriend." I stop and regard her in disgust. "Burro Face?" "Oh, please, Alex. Colin Adams is cute, he's the captain of the football team and Fairfield's hero. You're like Danny Zuko in Grease. You smoke, you're in a gang, and you've dated the hottest bad girls around. Brittany is like Sandy ... a Sandy who'll never show up to school in a black leather jacket with a ciggie hangin' from her mouth. Give up the fantasy."

hate fantasy colin-adams danny-zuko sandy brittany-ellis grease compare wish

Simone Elkeles

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"And then there's the other thing. The thing I'm trying to ignore. The thing I shouldn't want, the thing I can't have. And he's standing in front of me right now. So what do I wish for? Something I'm not sure I want? Someone I'm not sure I need? Or someone I know I can't have? Screw it. Let the fates decide. How's that for a generalization? I open my eyes, and the wind is blowing harder. St. Clair pushes a strand of hair from his eyes. "Must have been a good one," he says."

fate wish wishes

Stephanie Perkins

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"We've stopped in front of Notre-Dame again. I point at the familiar star and clear my throat. "Wanna make another wish?" "You go first." He's watching me, puzzled, like he's trying to figure something out. He bites his thumbnail. This time I can't help it. All day long, I've thought about it. Him. Our secret. He steps on the coppery-bronze star after me and closes his eyes. I realize he must be wishing about his mother, and I feel guilty that she didn't even cross my mind. My thoughts are only for St. Clair. ( . . . ) Do I see the same St. Clair everyone else does? No. I don't think so. But I could be mistaking our friendship for something more, because I to mistake it for something more."

love wish wishes

Stephanie Perkins

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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. Almost no one gets a chance to alter the course of human events on purpose, in the exact same way they wish for it to be altered.

clearly penny fate human destiny fountain events wish

Barbara Kingsolver

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I don't believe in magic, yet I see making wishes as a nod to hope, an acknowledgement of the power of will, the recognition of a goal.

magic wishes-quotes wishful-thinking wish

Cecelia Ahern