Quotes About Expectations

I had seen the princess and let her lie there unawakened, because the happily ever after was so damnably much work.

You don't know how to love people. You only know how to own them. And because people will never act just like you want them to, Mother, you'll always feel betrayed. And because eventually everybody dies, you'll always feel cheated. But you're the cheat, Mother. You're the one who uses our love for us to try to control us.

Child-rearing today was so complicated. You always had to think of what they'd say on television later.

In Valentine's experience, normality was always a pretense, people acting out what they thought were their expected roles

No, the hurts of the mind were too strange, too invisible, too magical to hope for the same kind of tolerance and help from even the best of people. It frightens me, thought DeAnne. Why should I expect others to be better than I am?

Mother, I don't dream of marrying a prince and riding off into the sunset. That's a good thing, my darling, because there are no princes - only men and animals who pretend to be men.

Vanya soon found that America might be an exciting place to arrive, but living there could become, in time, as boring as anything else.

Il eut un surprenant sourire, puis il me prit dans ses bras et me dit : « Je ne pensais que tu m'avais trahi la dernière fois que tu as parti. Je ne comprenais pas, Lanik. Je pensais que si je te faisais confiance, cela signifie que tu agirais toujours comme je le voulais. ..

it would probably be a good deal better than their worst fears and nowhere near as good as their best hopes.

The story is nothing like what you first thought it would be. But so what? It's better - richer, deeper, truer - than the original idea. The idea did its work: it got you thinking. After that, if you feel bound to stick to it no matter what, that idea becomes a ball and chain that you drag with you through the whole process.

Nobody would notice you, except to feel sorry for the little kid. But I made sure they all noticed you today. They'll be watching every move you make. All you have to do to earn their respect now is be perfect.

She paid using the prettiest credit card, and then left it with the ticket seller as a gift. Along with a minor curse—a bladder infection and diarrhea—just because she was Baba Yaga, and certain things were expected.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being

Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman

The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well. Algernon. I'm feeling very well, Aunt Augusta. Lady Bracknell. That's not quite the same thing. In fact the two things rarely go together.

You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?