“and there had been times when he wished he'd been born into a different family.”
“When someone is force to realize that the road he'd been working hard to make progress on was no different from the place he'd started, and when he realized that he had in fact gone backward, all that person can do is face the pale sky and lament.”
“I wish I had never been born--there or anywhere else. ”
“I'd spent endless nights wishing things had been different - wishing that ours had been a fairy-tale story. But, it wasn't. It couldn't be.”
“I wish I had been born a storm. No heart, no tears, just a terrible gale'd been good.”
“Will had shrugged once, helplessly. He had almost wished Jem would be angry with him. It would have been easier. He'd never felt so small within himself as he did when he faced Jem's expansive kindness.”