“Be careful what you wish for, because it probably won't come true and life is mostly about expectation management.”— Night Vale podcast, twitter.com
“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.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.”— Anne Brontë, amazon.com
“We not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particular way in which we have been accustomed to be pleased.”— William Wordsworth, amazon.com