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Quotes About Waiting

Instead I waited, which is what the Nude Descending a Staircase does, contrary to one's expectation and which is exactly why it has always provoked such a peculiar critical response.
~ Roberto Bolano
todos los libros del mundo están esperando a que los lea).
~ Roberto Bolano
una larga espera inerme, una espera cuya columna vertebral era el desamparo, algo muy latinoamericano, por otra parte, una sensación familiar, algo que si uno lo pensaba bien experimentaba todos los días
~ Roberto Bolano
Toate cartile din lume asteapta sa fie citite.
~ Roberto Bolano
If a man does not die of a wound, then it heals in some fashion, and so it is with loss. From the sharp pain of immediate berevement, both the Prince and I passed into the gray days of numb bewilderment and waiting. So grief has always seemed to me, a time of waiting not for the hurt to pass, but to become accustomed to it.
~ Robin Hobb
I am the King's Fool. He is the King-In-Wating. Let him wait.
~ Robin Hobb
He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some part of my soul still dangled, waiting for his return. That, I think, is the shock of any relationship ending. It is realizing that what is still an ongoing relationship to someone is, for the other person, something finished and done with.
~ Robin Hobb
You can wait a very long time for them to give you your freedom. Taking it might be faster.
~ Robin Hobb
So grief has always seemed to me, a time of waiting not for the hurt to pass, but to become accustomed to it.
~ Robin Hobb
Tinha andado a manter um silêncio amuado para com ele, esperando avidamente que me perguntasse que bicho me tinha mordido. O problema era que ele não o fazia. Haverá alguma coisa mais provocadora do que esperar que alguém comece uma discussão?
~ Robin Hobb
I've just been living from day to day. Waiting for something or someone else to change the situation." His eyes studied her face, looking for a reaction to his next words. "I think I need to make a real decision. I believe I need to take action on my own.
~ Robin Hobb
But it had taken me years to accept his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some part of my soul still dangling, waiting for his return. That, I think, is the shock of any relationship ending. It is realizing that what is still an ongoing relationship to someone is, for the other person, something finished and done with.
~ Robin Hobb
She was a tigress. One did not waste snarls on such a creature. You waited until you could snap his spine with a single blow.
~ Robin Hobb
How long? I asked, and then remembered that speech came from my mouth. 'How long?
~ Robin Hobb
Life does not wait for any of us to grow up.
~ Robin Hobb
Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.
~ Robin Jones Gunn
Sometimes the best answers to prayer are the ones God doesn't answer.
~ Robin Jones Gunn
Lord Jesus,' Christy whispered, 'I want You to hold the key. I want You to decide what should happen in my heart's garden. I want You to let in or send out anything or anybody You want. Especially with guys. I don't want to ever unlock that gate again. I want you to open it only when the right man comes along. Take the key, Lord. Take all my keys. I'll wait for you.
~ Robin Jones Gunn
I take it that's where you met Todd.' 'Yep. Almost five years ago. Can you believe it?' 'Five years! You and Todd should be the poster couple for the 'Love Waits' campaign.' Christy laughed. 'It didn't seem that long. A lot has happened during those five years. But I do agree that true love is worth the wait. I'd wait another five years for Todd if I had to. He's the only man for me. Ever.
~ Robin Jones Gunn
The conversation he'd been waiting years for. Quite possibly his entire life for.
~ Robin Parrish
for their signatures, she returned visitors' passes with dexterity, if not pleasure. Nikki hoped to be the first person allowed inside, but she was disappointed.
~ Lisa Jackson
All Good Things Comes To He Who Waits
~ Lisa Jackson ~ Lost Souls
life wouldn't be as much fun if we knew where its treasures were hidden. Sometimes you had to search for them. Sometimes you had to fight for them. And sometimes, they were at your feet. Either way, they were waiting. For you.
~ Lisa Scottoline
Jake thanked God he had a son to put to bed when he knew somewhere there was a family, right now, waiting for someone who would never come home.
~ Lisa Scottoline