When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Bowen’s line suggests that love acts as a release valve for long-hoarded desire. “Saved up wishes” implies private, perhaps even half-admitted hopes—about being understood, being chosen, being safe, or having one’s life turn out differently—that a person can keep banked away while moving through ordinary life. Falling in love makes those wishes surface and demand expression: the beloved becomes the imagined witness or partner to whom one can finally confess what one wants. The phrasing also hints at risk: once wishes “come out,” they can be disappointed, exposing vulnerability. In this sense, love is both generative (it gives wishes a voice) and destabilizing (it raises the stakes of hope).