“What is a secret wish?""It is what you want but cannot ask.”

“I felt stuck in the bottom of a wishing well. I was desperate to shout what I wanted, but I didn’t know what that was. I knew only what it wasn’t.The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan”

“Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.”

“You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.”

“You should think about your character. Know where you are changing, how you will be changed, what cannot be changed back again.”

“What use for? asks my mother, jiggling the table with her hand. You put something else on top, everything fall down.”

“It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want.”