Quotes About Expectations

Sólo cuando no esperamos nada ni albergamos ningún sueño podemos mantener el control de nuestra vida. Los sueños a menudo implican a los demás y es imposible tener la certeza de que los demás no nos defraudarán, ni nos harán daño.

She would, in fact, make a quite deplorable duchess.

Was it only little more than an hour ago that she had left this room so full of hope and happiness? She had not dreamed that her newfound love would be so effectively shattered in such a short time.

It is not easy to be a woman, is it? Especially a spinster.

She could never make him happy. She had nothing of her real self to offer him.

As the daughter of an earl, he said, you could probably snare a duke, Margaret, if there is one available. They both laughed. If he is young, handsome, wealthy, kind, and inclined to love me to distraction, she said, then I will grab him. She laughed again. Provided I love him to distraction too, of course.

You said I was free, she told him. I have never been free—very few women ever are.

It is applied exclusively to girls. Have you noticed? I know a few wild boys, and people generally think none the worse of them—boys will be boys. I have never heard any of them called hoydens.

You must not look for a grand romance, you know, however much you always enjoy it between the pages of a book.

A very disappointing encounter. It had had strong romantic possibilities. Not that he was much given to romance, it was true.

No one could have convinced her six years before that the day would come when she and Robert would sleep under the same roof, in separate bedrooms, not only strangers to each other, but bitter strangers.

My experience is that many things are not as bad as I thought they would be.

I had enjoyed something that did not belong to me, you see. When it was taken away, I was disappointed but not harmed.

Isaac didn't understand heartache. Or regret or longing or divided loyalties. Or anger or shattered trust or betrayal. Such things had no clarity. They involved expectations of another's behavior, and Isaac had no such expectations.

Everybody wanted to be depressed. But your depression was supposed to be funny, too, and that was what had proved too much for Dolores.

But prettiness is always about pleasing people. When you stop being pretty, you don't have to do that anymore. I don't have to do that anymore. It's my show now.

Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I'd like to see you be or do. I have no desire to forsee you, only to discover you. You can't disappoint me

Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I'd like to see you be or do. I have no desire to foresee you, only to discover you.

The first night he slept with her, he took a washrag and a jug of wood alcohol to get rid of her makeup, saying he wanted to know what he was getting into.

It strikes me that whatever advantages there are to being a boy—getting to stay out late and having other people wash your clothes and bring you plates of stuff---get undercut by having to play football.

Lo que más duele de la juventud no son las hostias que da el mundo, sino las estúpidas esperanzas que se hacen pasar por certezas.

What hurts so bad about youth isn't the actual butt whippings the world delivers. It's the stupid hopes playacting like certainties.)

Unfortunately, most of us end up with somebody who's somewhere between Jed Clampett and Homer Simpson.

girls like us are hardly ever wanted, you know we're used up. and sad. and drunk. and perpetually waiting by the phone for someone to pick up and say "you did good." well, you did good