Jeanette Winterson Quotes

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.

I think there's a part of us that fantasizes about having some sort of super power. If I could have one, it would definitely be teleportation!

The world is full of genies waiting to grant your wishes.

Hopefully, sometime I get a superpower. I would like to be able to transport myself wherever I wanted.

'Granted' is about a lively young woman who does a fairy godmother a good turn and is given a wish as her reward.

It never fails - you get in the bath and there's a rub at the lamp

We are like a wishing well And a bolt of electricity

Aladdin's lamp is mine.

Augustus," I said. "Really. You don't have to do this." "Sure I do," he said. "I found my Wish." "God, you're the best," I told him. "I bet you say that to all the boys who finance your international travel," he answered.

In Mexico your wishes have a dream power. When you want to see someone, he turns up.

It may take months or years for a wish to come true, but it's far more likely to happen when you care so much about a wish that you'll do all you can to make it happen.

In a way. Magic is the act of making a wish come about. Like praying, like plotting, like herbs, like exerting your will on the world, making something happen.

I'd just love magic. I'd love to be able to just click and transport. I'd be like a fairy little godmother, I think, going round hearing what people wish for and seeing what I could do for them.

There is a difference between wishing for a thing and being ready to receive it.

In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.

My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came from my desire to see to it that someone stood between the darkness and the people it would devour.

Give out what you most want to come back.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

The magic of procedure: do this after that and thus before so; then your wish will be granted.

If you have the ability to desire it, the Universe has the ability to deliver it. You've just got to line up with what you want, which means— be as happy as you can be as often as you can be there, and let everything else take care of itself.

What is charm then? The free giving of a grace, the spending of something given by nature in her role of spendthrift ... something extra, superfluous, unnecessary, essentially a power thrown away.

Once that Gauntlet is on, as the poster of Doctor Strange says, "the impossibilities are endless."

We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we are changed, so that we slide from the summit of our wishes and find ourselves where we were.

But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.

I’d trade my soul for a wish.