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

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

“We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable.-Suyuan”

“I imagine a hundred Chinese Icaruses, molding wings out of earwax. You can't stop people from wishing.”

“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”

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

“You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying.-An-mei”