Quotes About Expectations

En los cuentos no pasan cosas buenas —replica Taryn—. Y si pasan, es porque después va a ocurrir algo malo. De lo contrario, el cuento sería un rollo y nadie querría leerlo.

When will you cease being a dissapointment?

You were always good," he says, looking down at me. "Just never good enough.

I suppose that's one good thing about being obedient and faithful and good. People think you will never surprise them.

She feels as though she has something to prove at all times. Feels as though she has to earn the crown on her head over and over again.

Your ridiculous family might be surprised to find that not everything is solved by murder," Locke calls after me. "We would be surprised to find that," I call back.

Nice things don't happen in storybooks," Taryn says. "Or when they do happen, something bad happens next. Because otherwise the story would be boring, and no one would read it.

When I'd tell my mother about these women around me - and how sometimes I felt that I didn't measure up - she'd chastise me for getting sucked into their nonsense. 'How do you expect to get where you want to go if you're rubbernecking at everyone else along the way? Don't focus on what you wrongly perceive as your shortcomings.

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

A husband who submits to his wifes yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A womans influence ought to be entirely concealed.

Mademoiselle de Fontaine had an ideal standard which was to be the model. A young man who at the first glance did not fulfil the requisite conditions did not even get a second look.

Wife," said the little tailor, "it's ill counting on dead men's shoes.

How inexplicable Parisian women are!" exclaimed Thaddeus. "When they are loved to madness they want to be loved reasonably: and when they are loved reasonably they reproach a man for not loving them at all.

There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don't wish to do.

I was actually a bit disappointed about the amount of sex in the show. I think Backus should get out a bit more, get a relationship, perhaps make her a lesbian.

I try to be a hard boiled sometimes. My kids see right through it. I'm acting. It's always, 'When I say you'll be back at 11, that means 11, not 11.15. Do you hear me!?' Then, 'Yeah, Dad.'

That's the kind of luxury that men have. They can be awful and beloved. Women don't get that kind of leeway.

This is why human relationships usually take me beyond my limits. They wear me out. They scatter my thoughts. They make me worry about what I have just said and what they have just said, and how or if that all fits together, and what they will say next and what I will say then, and do I owe them something or is it their turn to owe me, and why do the rules change depending

on who the friend turns out to be and…well, the whole thing drives me to total distraction and anxiety.

The only woman who deserved a philandering husband was a philandering wife.

It's because we live in a beauty-obsessed society where the most important thing a woman can do is make herself attractive to men.

She was a far better mother when she had an audience.

Nick explained that an aperitif was an pre-dinner drink. Nick came from an aperitif-drinking family. Alice came from a family with one dusty bottle of Baileys sitting hopefully in the back of the pantry with the tins of spaghetti.

I can hardly bear to think of ourselves hugging and crying and making giggly phone calls, like we were in some inane sitcom. We actually discussed names. Names! I want to shout back through the years at myself, "Just because you're pregnant doesn't mean you get a baby, you idiots!