„Oh, I’m burning! I wish I were out of doors. I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free, and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed?“

— Emily Brontë

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„I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free… Why am I so changed? I'm sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.“
— Emily Brontë
„I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.“
— Emily Brontë
„There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.“
— Terry Pratchett
„Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.“
— Marilyn Monroe
„Nice dress Zoey. It looks just like mine. Oh, wait! It used to be mine.Aphrodite laughed a throaty, I'm-so-grown-and-you're-just-a-kid laugh.I really hate it when girls do that. I mean, yes, she's older, but I have boobs, too.“
— P. C. Cast
„Oh, Theo, why should I change - I used to be very passive and very gentle and quiet — I'm that no longer, but then I'm no longer a child either now - sometimes I feel my own man.“
— Vincent Van Gogh
„One summer morning at sunrise a long time agoI met a little girl with a book under her arm.I asked her why she was out so early andshe answered that there were too many books andfar too little time. And there she was absolutely right.“
— Tove Jansson