Quotes About Waiting

It was a long time before the Snork came back with the wood. "Well, there you are at last," said his sister. "It took quite a time, said the Snork, "because, of course, I had to find pieces that were all exactly the same length." "Is he always so particular?" asked Snufkin. "He was born like that," said the Snork Maiden.

When Mats came in the evenings, they would drink tea in the kitchen while reading their books and talking about them. If Katri came in, they were quiet and waited for her to leave. The back door would close, and Katri would have gone. "Does your sister read our books?" Anna wanted to know. "No. She reads literature.

Tonight I'm alone with my tune, and tonight isn't tomorrow.

Isn't it a nice thing to know that someone's longing for you and waiting and waiting to see you again? (Little Creep to Snufkin)

or even You're right, or maybe I'm a giant idiot and I wouldn't be offended if you abandoned me here. But instead, "You were taking forever

there is no test in getting what you want when you want it; the true test of character transpires in the waiting. Dwell on this in moments of despair.' Mathu vanished an instant before the doctor and the constable entered the Abbey ruins, and I had an inkling that this was not the last I would see of my Fey brother.

You can't kiss her until the preacher says so." Hannah laughed. "She's absolutely right. That way if you don't like it . . . well . . . you're just stuck with me.

I have spent my life waiting for something to happen,' she said. 'And I have come to understand that nothing will. Or it already has, and I blinked during that moment and it's gone. I don't know which is worse — to have missed it or to know there is nothing to miss.

My father was often impatient during March, waiting for winter to end, the cold to ease, the sun to reappear. March was an unpredictable month, when it was never clear what might happen. Warm days raised hopes until ice and grey skies shut over the town again.

I didn't move. I've learned from years of experience that dogs and falcons and ladies come back to you if you stay where you are.

the hours plink past like water from a window a/c. we sweat it out, teach ourselves to wait. silently, lazily, collapse happens.

Thank you, sir," Reynie said, stepping out into the corridor, where Jackson stood waiting for him. "Don't thank me," Mr. Curtain called as the door slid closed. "Impress me!

In the meantime, there was nothing to do but exist and persist.

Trenton Lee Stewart

They're waiting at the barrier," Constance said as she and Kate left the control room. "Every one of them.

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Nice one, Doctor.' he congratulated himself. 'Now all you can do is sit and wait. Someone must have programmed the door to shut like that. They'll have to come and inspect their trap sometime, see if they've caught anything' He stared mournfully at the skeleton. 'Anytime soon...

No word from Max saying whether he was definitely going to come and see me, let alone what time and for how long. As usual he just took it for granted that I would hang about the house all day waiting for him. Clearly nature intended him to be a delivery man, not a university lecturer.

This papaya tastes boring. I guess I normally like papaya. But this one is sort of boring all the way through. Like eating water. Boring water. I wonder when it will be sun time. Maybe I should try a different papaya after this one. But what if the next papaya is boring, too?

All right, I'll wait another two thousand years to make jokes about my evilness.

What did I say about staying put?

Had Queen Coral prepared a throne for her missing daughter, waiting all these years for her to come fill it? She

Blaze yet and I hate waiting.

And then Winter pushed him inside and doors began slamming shut all around them, as the SandWings locked themselves in and waited to be buried alive.