“I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium.”
“I wish...I wish I were dead...”“And what use would that be to anyone?”
“I wish the night would end,I wish the day'd begin,I wish it would rain or snow,or the wind would blow,or the grass would grow,I wish I had yesterday,I wish there were games to play...”
“Nothing but this: I did not do it. Yet now I wish I had... I wish I had enough poison for you all. You make me sorry that I am not the monster you would have me be, yet there it is.”
“I wish we were alone,” he says.“I almost always wish that,” I say.”
“I wish she was dead,' he says. 'I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best.”