Quotes About Waiting

Each time she fell out of love with him, he saw it happen and waited it out.

Sometimes it felt like Zoe was just waiting out her life now, enduring it, ticking off events and days and months and years, as if she just had to get herself through something unspecified and then things would be better, except she never got through it and it never got better and she would never forgive him. His death was the ultimate 'fuck you'.

They were all just sitting here. Waiting. What were they meant to be doing? The desire to interact was an irresistible itch.

Sometimes it felt like Zoe was just waiting out her life now, enduring it, ticking off events and days and months and years, as if she just had to get herself through something unspecified and then things would be better except she never got through it and it never got better and she would never forgive him.

When I dream, I dream of him. For several nights now he's come to me, waving from a distant shore as if he's been waiting patiently for me to arrive. He doesn't utter a word, but his smile says everything: I've missed you.

Invisible Oompa-Loompas waiting on a scarred millionaire with an occult library. This could only happen to you,

War is hell and waiting is hell and war is waiting.

This was the way it was with Marc. His heart had a narrow field of vision. I knew it held a great many things, but the aperture was small and I had to wait my turn to be rotated back around into the light where I would glow so brightly I'd be all he could see.

My old friends are getting married, too. The invitations catch up with me eventually, forwarded from Oregon or Spain or Albuquerque. Unfortunately, sometimes these invitations arrive before the wedding has taken place.

nothing. Some of the women are still wading

I've read that the dying often wait to be by themselves. They need the freedom to go, with nobody holding them back.

I feel like it's a very indiscriminate 'hey.' I feel like these guys go through and 'hey' at eight hundred women, and they see who will 'hey' back. like they're blowing a horn at the top of a mountain and waiting for goats to come running.

We'll see each other in about fifteen minutes

He listened with the mild demeanour of a man who had waited eight years for his town council to draw up a specification for emergency repairs.

Hello, still waiting for an unexpected development? There was none. It happens. It happens all the time.

You were standing in the wake of devastation And you were waiting on the edge of the unknown And with the cataclysm raining down Insides crying "Save me now" You were there, impossibly alone

I am a slow worker, but I could have written at least two books more in the time that I have been obliged to spend waiting around public offices and in the back yards of recruiting stations—waiting unnecessarily for unnecessary things.

Half an ear cocked, something in me, all night, every night, is waiting for you to come home.

I've never been shy. I've just waited until I had something to say.

And you couldn't be anywhere at all without having been almost there for a while.

But patience, real patience, meant more than simply waiting. Patience meant you had to honor the moments before things happened the same way you honored the moments when they did.

Patience meant you had to honor the moments before things happened the same way you honored the moments when they did.

Another drawn-out silence follows and Tallulah waits. Waits to be hit, waits to be screamed at, waits for the anger that exists so close to the tight seams of Zach's psyche finally to burst through.

Another drawn-out silence follows and Tallulah waits. Waits to be hit, waits to be screamed at, waits for the anger that exists so close to the tight seams of Zach's psyche finally to burst through. But it doesn't.