“Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.”— Anne Sexton, goodreads.com
“Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who’d be kind to me. That’s what people really want, if they’re telling the truth.”— Doris Lessing, amazon.com
“At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“He was right, after all; it didn't leave a scar, though part of me wishes it had. At least I'd have some evidence, some justification of this permanence. Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.”— Gayle Forman, amazon.com