It's a fine line between "wishful thinking" and "witch craft".

I wish i could feed my soul just like i feed my hunger.

When was the last time you took a walk with the Universe?

to hope was to expect

She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

It had been wishful thinking, plain and simple, dangerous for me to indulge in. Hope, happiness and freedom were not in my future.