1.

[wishfulclicking]

Steven returned from the war without lips.

--What You Left in the Ditch

2.

[wishfulclicking]

This is the sex that she wishes would split her open and murder her because she can't deal with a dead father; she's wished him dead so many times that now it's hard to tell the difference between fantasy and reality.

--Quiet Please

3.

[wishfulclicking]

That the laughing ones now pull along one fairy with purple eyes, who is clearly dancing against her will, dragged along with the circle, her mouth wide open and screaming.

--Quiet Please

4.

[wishfulclicking]

He went to his tiny room and thought about the word lonely and how it sounded and looked so lonely, with those two l's in it, each standing tall by itself.

--The Loser

5.

[wishfulclicking]

She saw the hump rising up on her back like a landscaped hill, and reaching back one tentative hand to touch it, could hardly contain the airborne feeling of relief.

--Legacy

6.

[wishfulclicking]

I tried to imagine what it would be like not to want things.

--Dreaming in Polish

7.

[wishfulclicking]

Look, Annie, look---there is no space for anything but dreaming.

-- The Rememberer

8.

[wishfulclicking]

My wishes became generalized long ago, in childhood; I learned quick the consequence of wishing specific.


--The Rememberer

9.

[wishfulclicking]

"I cannot predict the future, but I know that anything is possible, even when everything else seems impossible."

-Thomas, Zimbabwe's homeless team's coach, quoted in Home and Away