# Quote — Jeffrey Ford, Crackpot Palace

> “Do you remember what you wished for?” asked Stan.
>
> “Only the one of them. I must have been ten or eleven.”
>
> “Did it come true?” asked Groot.
>
> “Hell no, I wished I’d never get old,” said Venner.

- Author: [Jeffrey Ford](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeffrey-ford.md)
- Book: [Crackpot Palace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeffrey-ford/crackpot-palace.md)
- Page: 289
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Ford#Crackpot_Palace_(2012)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeffrey-ford/crackpot-palace/do-you-remember

## More from this book

> I knew we were going somewhere I didn’t have any interest in going, because I was wearing a tie and jacket.

p. 76 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeffrey-ford/crackpot-palace/i-knew-we-were.md)

> “You two don’t know yet,” he said. “When you get old, you think more about the past than about what you did five minutes ago. Time changes.”

p. 289 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeffrey-ford/crackpot-palace/you-two-dont.md)

> Time became a sermon, preaching itself.

p. 236 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeffrey-ford/crackpot-palace/time-became-a-sermon.md)