wishful thinking Quotes

“So many old and lovely things are stored in the world’s attic because we don’t want them around us and we don’t dare throw them out.”

“Life would be a lot easier if conversations were rewindable and erasable, like videos.”

“Peace is not something you wish for; it’s something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away!”

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

“And that was what destroyed you in the end: the longing for something you could never have.”

“Our minds sometimes see what our hearts wish were true.”

“The one thing he might want to ask God for was to let him go home . . . But they wouldn’t let him go home.”

“Amy had said that she hoped there was lime Jell-O in heaven because she couldn’t go an eternity without it. We’d laughed so hard green gelatin sprayed out of our mouths.”

“It was a curious feeling, that something could be so close and so distant at the same time.”

Many universal themes are addressed in this little book. Willfulness is mentioned first because I think it ties with the ending theme of original sin (which is a story about willfulness.) The child attempts to determine if she is a willful child, the cat confirms that she is. The child then concludes “willful is what I want to be… something special.”

“It is no good wishing for what was not to be.”

″‘If you were mine-’ Mark had been saying this to himself since the first night he had stopped to see Ben. He often lay in bed thinking of it before going to sleep.”