“As they were carting him off on a gurney, all I could think was, I wish that was me.”
“I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then.”
“I didn’t want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into the woods. Stones that could not feel or cry or see. I wished not to feel anything at all. In no time, what I wished for, I became.”
“I have been a stranger in a strange land, Halleck quoted. Paul stared at him, recognizing the quotation from the O.C. Bible, wondering: Does Gurney, too, wish an end to devious plots?”
“I could wish there were a God, if it were only to ask him to bless thee.”
“I wish I could bottle the seductive look she gave me so I could sniff it when I jack off.”