“He had been granted his life's wish-but conditionally.”
“All his life he had wished and waited, and there had been no change, except for the worse.”
“This was how they wished they had been: each was creating an ideal into which he was now fitting his past life.”
“Life is not a wish granting factory.”
“No poet or novelist wishes he was the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number believe their wish has been granted.”
“He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.”