"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

"To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is a foreshadowing -- the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again."
— Marilynne Robinson (Housekeeping: A Novel)

""It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.""
— Charles Bukowski

"Wednesdays were the best thing about Atlantis. The middle of the week was a traditional holiday there. Everyone stopped work and celebrated the fact that half the week was over."
— Walter Moers (The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Blue Bear)

"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."
— Lily Tomlin

"the world is a rollercoaster, and i am not strapped i, maybe i should hold with care but my hands are busy in the air"
— Brandon Boyd

"Do you think it's possible to finally decide that you really, truly love someone but not end up marrying him? "
— Robin Jones Gunn- As You Wish

"If you could have one wish, what would it be? We all have hopes and dreams that we do almost anything to make real. And if we get lucky, and our wish is granted, maybe that's what we call happiness."
— Sakura

"Sanchez looked at me and we locked eyes a second too long. There was nothing I could do about it. The signal went out. A moment of clear, silent hostility passed between us as hotly charged and unintentional as a thousand-volt arc through a squirrel."
— Rick Riordan in Last King of Texas

"As soon as he was gone, we opened, "Baucis and Philemon." An elderly couple living in a cottage, they're granted a wish by Jove. They confer in private before Philemon asks, "May one hour take us both away; let neither outlive the other." The wish is granted.

I said, "Simultaneous deaths? Why didn't they wish for eternal happiness instead? What else would anyone wish for?"

"They did wish for that," answered Jamie."
— David Guterson (The Other)

"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however."
— Richard Bach (Illusions)

"To wish a healthy man to die is the wish from a mind of sickness. To wish an ailing man to die is the wish of the ambitious."
— Roman Payne

"I wish sometimes that the gods would either choose better, or make their wishes clearer"
— Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Chosen)

"An unrecorded goal is only a wish."
— Paul R. Timm

"17th 09 09

A CRASH victim, who cheated death after an horrific head-on collision, has paid tribute to the air crew who saved his life.

Lee Moore, aged 23, of Gillingham, is certain he would have died had he not been flown to hospital by the Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance after sustaining serious head injuries in the high-speed crash on the A357 in September last year. Luckily for Mr Moore, the air ambulance is stationed at nearby Henstridge airfield and quick-thinking paramedics were on the scene almost immediately to administer emergency first aid before rushing him to Dorset County Hospital.

Mr Moore is in no doubt that he owes the crew his life.

He said: "Without the air ambulance, there is not a chance in hell that I would have made it. The whole left side of my face was smashed in and my left eye was hanging out. I can't remember anything about the crash but I do know that if I had been taken to hospital by road, I would not be here today."

On Sunday, almost exactly a year to the day after the crash, Mr Moore met his rescuers at Compton Abbas airfield, along with his father Philip Moore.


Philip, who runs an aircraft servicing business from the airfield, is also a part-time author who has five published books. He has now pledged to donate £2 from every book sold to the air ambulance. Philip, also of Gillingham, said: "When we heard about the accident we thought we had lost him but the air ambulance did an incredible job and I am so grateful to them. Thanks to them, within an hour of the crash Lee had been flown to hospital, operated on, bandaged up and sent to the specialist head injury unit in Southampton. They saved his life."

The incident happened at around 1.15pm on Friday, 12 September 2008, as Mr Moore was driving his Rover 214 while on lunch break from his job at Stalbridge Quarry.

His car was in collision with another vehicle being driven by a 49-year-old woman, with her heavily-pregnant daughter as a passenger. Mr Moore came off worst and had to be cut free from his car. He suffered a fractured skull, a punctured lung, a crushed eye socket and severe abdominal injuries. Much of his scalp was also torn off in the crash. While Mr Moore endures an agonising recovery process, he says his thoughts constantly turn to the air crew that saved him.

He said: "I have this feeling in me that I need to express my gratitude to them for what they did. It is something I really need to do."

NOVEL IDEA: Grateful father Philip Moore, is donating the proceeds from sales of his aviation themed books to the Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance which saved the life of his son, Lee, after a road accident last year. Picture by Jennie Banks


Philip's new book Kez , a teenage adventure story, can be ordered from most book shops or Amazon.co.uk. For more information, visit his website www.philiplmoore.com
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— western Gazette

"People," Geralt turned his head, "like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live."
— Andpzej Sapkowski

"Fantasy is a desire that everybody wishes."
— Yannick Heywang