Forbidden Wish Quotes

#1. He is nothing. I tell myself this, so that I will not hope for him. I am not allowed to hope. I am a forbidden wish of my own.

Jessica Khoury

#2. "All I wanted," said the Queen, "was peace between our peoples. But I see now that this is not possible, for my people are ruled by a dreamer, and the jinn are ruled by a monster."

Jessica Khoury

#3. I wish you'd fall in love with me," she said.
"Why?"
"Because you're really someone worth falling in love with. And if we were in love, I wouldn't be drifting. I wouldn't be nobody. At least not while I was with you.

Anne Rampling

#4. If you're not free to love, your're not free at all.

Jessica Khoury

#5. For the last few centuries, these jeweled fruits have been my constant and sole companions. The greatest treasure in all the world, as comfortless as light to the blind.

Jessica Khoury

#6. We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.

Karl A. Menninger

#7. Carefully studying the delicate form of the doll, she was thinking how easy it was to wish for things as a child. Then nothing seemed impossible. Growing up, one realizes how many things one cannot wish for, the things that are forbidden, sinful. Indecent.

Laura Esquivel

#8. You've ruled before, so tell me, does it get easier?"
"No, but you get stronger.

Jessica Khoury

#9. I've been chased, shot, cut, beaten, and dragged a hundred leagues in the blink of an eye. I need a drink.

Jessica Khoury

#10. Less a point on a map and more a region of the soul, but it is a path I can follow.

Jessica Khoury

#11. He alone can meet my eyes without disgust or fear. He alone still sees the girl inside the monster. But it is not enough.

Jessica Khoury

#12. Find me, my thief.

Jessica Khoury

#13. Have I told you I love you?" he whispers.
I smile. "Not since this morning."
"Unforgivable. I will tell you every hour of every day.

Jessica Khoury

#14. I am the weed cast out of the rose garden. I am the crow chased out of the dovecote.

Jessica Khoury

#15. This has been the great lesson of my long life: To love is to destroy.

Jessica Khoury

#16. Even a thief may have honor, and even a jinni may have a heart.

Jessica Khoury

#17. During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender a nature, that though they are forbidden, it is but natural to wish that they were at least allowable. Nothing can be more delightful, except it be to abandon them for virtue's sake.

Jean De La Bruyere

#18. Every glance, every touch, every whisper between us has been a pebble added to the scales, tipping me toward a new direction.

Jessica Khoury

#19. Love is a path lined with roses.

Jessica Khoury

#20. Unable to go forward, afraid to go back

Jessica Khoury

#21. May you carry the weight of this betrayal to your grave.

Jessica Khoury

#22. What our hearts want can overtake what our minds tell us is forbidden to us. We can't control these feelings, even if we desperately wish we could.

Morgan Rhodes

#23. If it's a monster they want, then a monster they shall have.

Jessica Khoury

#24. Smoky, if there's one thing I am, it's adaptable.

Jessica Khoury

#25. We mourn what has been lost, and tomorrow, we rise.

Jessica Khoury

#26. "As you wish."
"But I'd like to remain your friend."
He put his hands in his pockets. "Always.

Sarah J. Maas

#27. You insist you're a monster because you're afraid of being human.

Jessica Khoury

#28. The universe sings a deep, eternal song, sound in waves, in deep sighs, in whispers, in swirling chords and rising, falling tones. The music of the worlds, weaving in a pattern that is both chaos and order, both beauty and terror, without beginning, without end.

Jessica Khoury

#29. All I wanted was peace between our peoples. But I see now that this is not possible, for my people are ruled by a dreamer, and the jinn are rules by a monster.

Jessica Khoury

#30. I asked her why my father resisted the guards when they always won in the end. Why didn't he just save himself the pain and pay them what they wanted? She told me that sometimes, you can't choose what happens to you, but you can choose who you become because of it. That's why my father fought back.

Jessica Khoury

#31. But my heart is a treacherous star, refusing to dim when the sun rises

Jessica Khoury