Quotes About Expectations

Murphy's law is the only true dependable in my life most of the time.

True love means you love the real person, not an ideal that you have in your head and superimpose over them.

True love means you love the real person, not an ideal that you have in your head and superimpose over them. That's illusion and lies to me.

Everyone thinks they want an extraordinary life, but you don't. When standing knee-deep in yet another disaster, ordinary begins to look very good.

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What you'll enjoy from someone you're in love with just hits you as clingy from someone you think of more as a sex buddy.

One woman cannot be committed to this many men." "Maybe, but you treat your lovers better than a lot of women treat their boyfriends." "Sorry to hear that," I said. He

Eventually, but I chose her for you. I knew what you liked and I shopped with an eye for keeping you, not for satisfying myself, and it worked. It worked better than I could have dreamed. I should have realized that I had set myself up for the two people I loved most in the world to love each other more than they loved me.' Jean-Claude

If something makes you happy you should just enjoy it and embrace it, but I've got a whole list of things that make me happy and I fought like hell not to enjoy them, not to want them, not to do them, because they didn't match who I thought I was, or who I thought I should be.

Sapevo che sei molto difficile ed esigente prima ancora che diventassimo una coppia.» «Stai dicendo che sapevi in quale guaio ti stavi cacciando?» Jean-Claude annuì. «Come qualunque uomo quando decide di amare una donna. Ci sono sempre misteri e sorprese in ogni rapporto d'amore, ma... Sì, avevo una certa idea del guaio in cui mi stavo cacciando, e mi ci sono cacciato volontariamente, bramosamente.»

This was how things worked. Period. Short of death (immediate family only), dismemberment (your own), or nuclear war (only if confirmed by the U.S. government to be directly affecting Manhattan), one was to be present. This would be a watershed moment in the Priestly regime.

Sweetheart, I know it can be easy to miss when it's your own child—I think I might have missed it with you—but eventually you need to stand back and admire the person they've become. It's almost never the person you wanted, or expected, them to be, but once you can see them as separate from you, it's pretty incredible how much you can respect them for the path they've chosen.

Surprise! It actually felt pretty lousy to have a one-night stand, despite the fact that every so-called empowered friend and tattered waiting-room copy of Cosmo swore that no-strings-attached sex was nothing but fun, fun, fun.

Sometimes Richard had the sinking suspicion that he had a far better chance of preventing Bonaparte from conquering Europe than he had of thwarting his mother's plans to see him married off within the next Season.

If you want to be loved, don't take on responsibility.

If you want to be loved, don't take on responsibility.

If, said Jane, ignoring him as only Jane dared, someone were to speak to her; if someone were to suggest . . . Ah. Vaughn's lips compressed, as the whole fiasco suddenly fell into place. That's what you want of me. To play Hermes for you. We can't all be Zeus, Jane said apologetically. Prolonged exposure to Jane was enough to make anyone take to Bacchus. I'm afraid I've left my winged shoes at home.

When you raise your expectations of yourself, you create a space to grow into.

a lavishly gifted underachiever who is gaining renown less for the canvases he paints than for those we hope he'll paint.

Well it was one of those days Larger than life When your friends came to dinner And they stayed the night And then they cleaned out the refrigerator And ate everything in sight And then they stayed up in the livingroom And cried all night Strange angels Singing just for me Old stories Haunting me This is nothing Like I thought it would be . . . .

You should have married a nice girl in her twenties so you can have dozens of babies,'Jane Louise said. 'Instead of the president of the Withered Crone Society.

Sounds like you've got it all planned out. Honey, I've got more plans than Wes has ugly shoes. And that's a lot. I laugh. It sure is, she says with a sigh.

How difficult. A prince who behaves like a husband and a husband who's starting to behave like a prince.

Smoke gunpowder and go to school to jump through hoops, sit up and beg, and roll over on command. Listen to the whispers that curl into your head at night, calling you ugly and fat and stupid and bitch and whore and worst of all a disappointment. Puke and starve and cut and drink because you don't want to feel any of this.