Quotes About Expectations

No matter how puny your frontal equipment, don't wear the kind with the giant pads inside. If a guy squeezes them, he will wonder why they feel like Nerf balls instead of boobs.

They're doing just as I asked them to. As we Sinclairs always do. Pretending. Lying. Trying to have a good time.

You think it's normal to get what you want all the time," said Jule. "For things to be easy. But it isn't. Most people don't get what they want, like, ever. They have doors shut in their faces. They have to strive, all the time. They don't live in your magical land of two-seater cars and perfect teeth and traveling to Italy and fur coats.

It really bothers me how in books it seems like the only two choices are perfection or self-hatred.

It had been, she felt, a dumb event preceded by excellent invitations.

He's the guy who says he'll do a project and doesn't do it," said Stacey S. "And he's the guy who says he'll be somewhere when he can't actually be there, because he doesn't want to disappoint someone. He always says yes, but he doesn't mean it, and people get jerked around.

It is not glamorous that I can't drive a car. It is not mysterious to be home on a Saturday night, reading a novel in a pile of smelly golden retrievers. However, I am not immune to the feeling of being viewed as a mystery, as a Sinclair, as part of a privileged clan of special people, and as part of a magical, important narrative, just because I am part of this clan. My mother is not immune to it, either. This is who we have been brought up to be. Sinclairs. Sinclairs.

I wished we had been the kind of girls those boys would have been nice to, automatically. I'm not even sure what kind of girls that would have been, why some girls were attractive to boys and others weren't.

I am the eldest Sinclair grandchild. Heiress to the island, the fortune, and the expectations. Well, probably.

WELCOME TO THE beautiful Sinclair family. No one is a criminal. No one is an addict. No one is a failure. The Sinclairs are athletic,

I've been a little sad that so many girls love Tommy so much. Hello!?! Tommy Hazard and Prince Charming - neither one exists!

If you want to live where people are not afraid of mice, you must give up living in palaces. (p. 106)

She could not explain in so many words, but she felt that those who prepare for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

Nor did he realize a more important point - that if she was too great for this society she was too great for all society, and had reached the stage where personal intercourse would alone satisfy her.

Unfortunately being born princess doesn't autimatically make a girl graceful or confident, a fact I've lamented for most of my fourteen years

spoiled rotten," said Beldegard. "Prince Ainsley is our

There are some persons whom we can never make happy. It is not in them to be so.

It's very hard to grow up in a perfect family when you're not perfect.

Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high.

I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.

You care for me a little bit, I do think, but I can't hang all my life on a little bit.

So does my grocer stigmatize me when I complain of the quality of his sultanas, and he answers in one breath that they are the best sultanas, and how can I expect the best sultanas at that price?

We are conventional people, and conventions — if you will but see it — are majestic in their way, and will claim us in the end. We do not live for great passions or for great memories, or for anything great.

It's a room that men have spoilt through trying to make it nice for women. Men don't know that we want—" "And never will.