The lapis-lazuli glow of her skin not the color a dictionary would define but something else, a color more like sounds shimmering inside me, invisible yet substantial, weighty as those replies to a letter and an e-mail that I attempt to picture until the words dissolve entirely and I'm wide awake, alone in the dark, waiting, wishing for her please, please to return.
And wait, wishing I had brought something to read because "shortly" turns out to be a long time.
"If you're standing on one foot, waiting and wishing, you're just not going to be in the House of Representatives," Mr. Israel says, putting the screws to his prospect like a salesman at an auto mall.
You cannot sit around waiting and wishing for something to happen.
Imagine all the possibilities you would create in your life right now if you simply chose today instead of choosing to continue waiting and wishing.
She is not waiting, wanting, wishing, or hoping for any of this, and you are a colossal, scary, evil a**hole for presuming she is.
Wishing I'd waited and wishing I'd hurried up as well.
A number of cruise lines based in the United States would like to have been sailing right behind that ship, the Express, but for now their executives can only wait and wish.
However, considering every drug policy case in British history, it seems unlikely the government will take anything resembling a sensible approach, So, for now, all we can do is wait and wish.
Through Cohen's contacts, Waits recorded demos in Los Angeles in late summer 1971 with producer Robert Duffey, later released as The Early Years in two volumes, against Waits' wishes.
