“Sometimes I wish I wasn't as conscious as I am. It would be so much easier.”

“I was always told by my family that I was the thick one. That I was stupid and my brother was the clever one. And I was always so conscious of that. I used to go to the headmistress crying saying I wish I wasn't so stupid.”

“I wish I wasn't privy to some of the classified information that I am privy to”

“I wish that I could love someone so much that I would die from it.”

“I'm always wondering if he'll return. Sometimes I pray that he doesn't. And sometimes I hope he will. I wish on falling stars and eyelashes. Absence isn't solid the way death is. It's fluid, like language. And it hurts so much… so, so much.”

“I wish they would take me as I am.”

“It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.”

“Sometimes I wish I was a woman, just so I could have an abortion.”

“I sometimes wish that I were in the Labour Party. I would tear down all these institutions!”

“Sorrow is like the ocean and sometimes I wish my heart would stop.”