Quotes About Disappointment

She expected some word from the splinters that threaded her soul. Fasaltsen or the wolf. But they were voiceless.

For all it was the answer he would have expected her to want, it did not seem to satisfy her.

When we love, it is hard to forgive the beloved for not being the person we imagined them.

this community would never be what I wanted. Too many other people wanted it to be different things. It would always have to be a compromise between my ideals and theirs.

I hate hanging our hopes on a man, even if he is both gentle and his mother's son. But he came.

Three explosions in three days, and not even one of them had been Closs's idea.

They were on opposite sides of this issue, and both of them had catastrophically let me down.

In spite of his name, Bob Troutman wasn't much of a catch.

"Fun"—it always seemed to leave you at a loss.

Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

What's in your mind, I suppose, is, why should you rise to occasions when I don't? Let's face it—who ever is adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

But something that should have been going on had not gone on: something had not happened.

Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

They had sat round a painted, not a burning, fire, at which you tried in vain to warm your hands.....

There was the dream of happiness and then there was what was real.

Why in God's name did the idiot have to drop dead when all was going so well? I could almost think he has done it to spite me.

I think I'm dying to get to know a particular guy. Then he opens his mouth and ruins it.

He's failed her as much as she's betrayed him. Nothing more needs to be known or said.

you're disappointed that he doesn't get it, though you're not surprised. He's never really gotten you. He loves you and takes care of you, and you thought that would be enough.

I don't exactly know who I thought I'd be by now, but I know I'm not that person.

but it was too late. Richard spit

In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.