“If God has given us life, He is capable of any other thing.”

“May God overflow your life with bountiful blessings of grace.”

“What a delight to desire to pray?”

“Why look so far?When it is so near!”

“I curse the heavens for letting the stars fall, I curse myself for not being there to catch them.”

“A wish is many things. It is apprehension and anticipation. It is lucky coins and dandelion fluff and rainbows stretching to forever. It is loves-me after love-me-nots and a pile of plucked flower petals at your feet. It’s purple bikes and getting picked first and a passing grade in math. It’s the marvelous and the miraculous. It’s hunger and heartache. A wish is something extraordinary that you never hoped to have.Or something very ordinary that most people take for granted.”

“Have faith little one ‘til your hopes and your wishes come true. You must try to be brave.”

“The sky was dark and cold as she longed for the one man who could chase away the demons of the night.”

“Who dare tries is a success, and shall master the art of conquering dreams.”

“I made a sorry face in response to such strong insistence, but I couldn’t believe him. Fantasies were exactly that..…..fantasies. Whimsy. Wishes. Mere castles in the sky without foundation or substance. Dreams didn’t come true. To believe so would be to believe falsely, to surrender to madness, to give in to an unreliable hope that would crush me once again as it always, always did!”

“I imagine what would happen if everyone turned their regrets into wishes, went around shouting them.”

“All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.[Conversation with Elizabeth Farnsworth, PBS NewsHour, March 9, 1998]”

“Because hope comes from in you, and wishes are just magic.”

“If you are a dreamer come inIf you are a dreamer a wisher a liarA hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyerIf youre a pretender com sit by my fireFor we have some flax golden tales to spinCome in! Come in!”

“Be careful what you wish for, it might make you happy.”