“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”
―
Meg Shaffer,
The Wishing Game
“Hate is a knife without a handle. You can't cut something with it without cutting yourself.” ― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game
“The stories write us, you see. We read something that moves us, touches us, speaks to us and it…it changes us.” ― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game
“Always be quiet when a heart is breaking.” ― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game
“Another thing I learned in therapy?" Angie said. "The kids in dysfunctional families who act out and rebel are the ones who are the healthiest mentally. They're the ones who see that something's wrong. That's why they act out, because they see the house is burning down, and they're screaming for help. That was you.” ― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game
“Don’t give up, Lucy. Always remember that the only wishes ever granted are the wishes of brave children who keep on wishing even when it seems no one is listening because someone always is. Someone like me. Keep wishing. I’m listening.” ― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game
“Ah, but that’s how life is,” Jack said. “Hindsight is twenty-twenty, they say, and they aren’t wrong. We only know the right thing to do after we’ve done the wrong one.” ― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game
“When you gotta scream, you gotta scream.” ― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game
“Sometimes the thing we want most in the world is the thing we're most afraid of. And the thing we're most afraid of is often the thing we most want.” ― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game
“There is nothing braver than a child asking for help.” ― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game
“I can't buy time. No one in the world can buy time. All those wasted years of my life... I can't buy them back. And if there was one thing I would buy if I could, it would be the time I wasted running from what I was afraid of instead of facing it.” ― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game
“God—or whoever is in charge of this planet—got drunk on the job one day and decided to give me the gift of writing. The way I see it, I have two choices. I can set that gift on a high shelf so it won’t get dinged up and nobody can make fun of me for playing with it.” He smiled until the crinkles at the corners of his eyes were deep enough to hide state secrets. “Or I can have fun with it and play with the gift I was given until the engine burns out and the wheels come off. I decided to play.” ― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game
“Always remember, that the only wishes ever granted are the wishes of brave children who keep on wishing even when it seems no-one is listening because someone always is. Someone like me. Keep wishing. I'm listening.” ― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game
“God—or whoever is in charge of this planet—got drunk on the job one day and decided to give me the gift of writing. The way I see it, I have two choices. I can set that gift on a high shelf so it won’t get dinged up and nobody can make fun of me for playing with it.' He smiled until the crinkles at the corners of his eyes were deep enough to hide state secrets. 'Or I can have fun with it and play with the gift I was given until the engine burns out and the wheels come off. I decided to play. I suggest you do the same, young man. Go paint or draw or collage or whatever you want to do. Come back when there's smoke coming off the canvas. And for God's sake, go have some fun. Please?” ― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game
“What’s a foot but not part of the body? Afoot, not a foot. As Sherlock Holmes once said, “The game is afoot.” ― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game
“I might owe her an apology.” He tapped his chin. “She won’t get it, but I do owe her one.” ― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game
“Christopher is real though. He matters to me a billion times more than any book, any game. And I'm not going to tell him that he has to wait until he grows up to be happy. He is going to be happy now even if it kills me to make him happy.” ― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game
“Hate is a knife without a handle. You can’t cut something with it without cutting yourself.” ― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game
“Hope is the thing with feathers,’ the lovely Miss Emily Dickinson once wrote. Well, if that’s the case, then a wish is the thing with black feathers.” ― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game
“Hate is a knife without a handle. You can't cut something with it without cutting yourself.” ― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game
“The stories write us, you see. We read something that moves us, touches us, speaks to us and it…it changes us.” ― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game
“Always be quiet when a heart is breaking.” ― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game
“Another thing I learned in therapy?" Angie said. "The kids in dysfunctional families who act out and rebel are the ones who are the healthiest mentally. They're the ones who see that something's wrong. That's why they act out, because they see the house is burning down, and they're screaming for help. That was you.” ― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game
“Don’t give up, Lucy. Always remember that the only wishes ever granted are the wishes of brave children who keep on wishing even when it seems no one is listening because someone always is. Someone like me. Keep wishing. I’m listening.” ― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game
“Ah, but that’s how life is,” Jack said. “Hindsight is twenty-twenty, they say, and they aren’t wrong. We only know the right thing to do after we’ve done the wrong one.” ― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game
“When you gotta scream, you gotta scream.” ― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game
“Sometimes the thing we want most in the world is the thing we're most afraid of. And the thing we're most afraid of is often the thing we most want.” ― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game
“There is nothing braver than a child asking for help.” ― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game
“I can't buy time. No one in the world can buy time. All those wasted years of my life... I can't buy them back. And if there was one thing I would buy if I could, it would be the time I wasted running from what I was afraid of instead of facing it.” ― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game
“God—or whoever is in charge of this planet—got drunk on the job one day and decided to give me the gift of writing. The way I see it, I have two choices. I can set that gift on a high shelf so it won’t get dinged up and nobody can make fun of me for playing with it.” He smiled until the crinkles at the corners of his eyes were deep enough to hide state secrets. “Or I can have fun with it and play with the gift I was given until the engine burns out and the wheels come off. I decided to play.” ― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game
“Always remember, that the only wishes ever granted are the wishes of brave children who keep on wishing even when it seems no-one is listening because someone always is. Someone like me. Keep wishing. I'm listening.” ― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game
“God—or whoever is in charge of this planet—got drunk on the job one day and decided to give me the gift of writing. The way I see it, I have two choices. I can set that gift on a high shelf so it won’t get dinged up and nobody can make fun of me for playing with it.' He smiled until the crinkles at the corners of his eyes were deep enough to hide state secrets. 'Or I can have fun with it and play with the gift I was given until the engine burns out and the wheels come off. I decided to play. I suggest you do the same, young man. Go paint or draw or collage or whatever you want to do. Come back when there's smoke coming off the canvas. And for God's sake, go have some fun. Please?” ― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game
“What’s a foot but not part of the body? Afoot, not a foot. As Sherlock Holmes once said, “The game is afoot.” ― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game
“I might owe her an apology.” He tapped his chin. “She won’t get it, but I do owe her one.” ― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game
“Christopher is real though. He matters to me a billion times more than any book, any game. And I'm not going to tell him that he has to wait until he grows up to be happy. He is going to be happy now even if it kills me to make him happy.” ― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game
“Hate is a knife without a handle. You can’t cut something with it without cutting yourself.” ― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game
“Hope is the thing with feathers,’ the lovely Miss Emily Dickinson once wrote. Well, if that’s the case, then a wish is the thing with black feathers.” ― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game
