How To Make A Wish Quotes

“For a long time, when I was a little younger, I thought that was how every girl saw other girls— this mix between beauty and awe and curiosity, a thin layer of lust just underneath. Took until I was fourteen to realize that no, the way I thought about other girls was a little different.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, How To Make A Wish

“Sadness is awkward. Grief is awkward. A missing mother is awkward, no matter what form that missing takes. And no one likes awkward. No one knows what to do with it unless you’re the person used to receiving all those averted gazes.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, How To Make A Wish

“Here's the thing about wishes: they're always changing on you. They're either dying out or they're realized, and then they're not wishes anymore. They're only truly alive in their anticipation" -Grace”
― Ashley Herring Blake, How To Make A Wish

“A weird thing I'm learning about grief - grief in all its forms - is that you can feel almost everything once. You'd think all those tears, all that laughter, all that deep sadness and even deeper hope would still the lungs and stop the heart.
But no. It's sort of the opposite.
And that's the funny thing about wishes - only when one comes true do you realize the full scope of that wish. What you really wanted. The beauty of it. The complexity.
The cost." -Grace”
― Ashley Herring Blake, How To Make A Wish

“Mom's told me more than once that she loves purple because it's this beautiful mix of blue's calm stability and red's fierce energy." -Grace”
― Ashley Herring Blake, How To Make A Wish

“You and me, we're sandy spoons and fireworks, lighthouses and wishes and peanut butter" -Grace”
― Ashley Herring Blake, How To Make A Wish

“Even when we were together, in those quiet name-whispering moments, he never knew me. Never. And yeah, that was my fault, my choice, but it still stings that he never even realized it. Never knew I was holding back.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, How To Make A Wish

“And that's the funny thing about wishes - only when one comes true do you realize the full scope of that wish. What you really wanted. The beauty of it. The complexity.
The cost.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, How To Make A Wish

“For as long as I could remember, I had been apologising for existing, for trying to be who I was, to live the life I was meant to lead. Maybe this would be the last conversation I would ever have with Grant. Maybe not. Either way, I realized, I wasn't sorry I existed anymore. I deserved to live. I deserved to find love. I knew now-I believed now-that I deserved to be loved.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, How To Make A Wish

“Such a loaded word - live. It could simply mean existing. Heart pumping blood, lungs taking in air. Or it could meant settling into something. Being a part of what's around you. Investing." -Grace”
― Ashley Herring Blake, How To Make A Wish

“Si quieres algo de verdad, cariño, las estrellas no te ayudarán. Tienes que estirar la mano y tomarlo”
― Ashley Herring Blake, How To Make A Wish

“It seems so easy now, just to cry about it. Just to feel pissed off and cheated, to love my mother this damn much, but love myself a little more because I need to. I have to.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, How to Make a Wish: A Coming-of-Age LGBTQ Story of First Love, Hope, and Family

“Wordlessly we turn side to side, our shoulders pressed together, the wind lacing around us, both of us staring into the light-swept black, feeling small and big all at once.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, How To Make A Wish