Quotes About Expectations

Youth isn't all it's cracked up to be either." "Then you're doing it wrong.

You said you thought the first guy you fell for would be the one.That's what you've been searching for.Like you think you'll meet him and a whole chorus of angels will sing and you'lle know he's it! But it doesn't always work like that.Actually, i don't think it ever works like that.Usually you have to kiss a lot of frogs before you stop getting warts.

I loved my parents and wanted to make them proud of me - but no longer at the cost of my own happiness.

I'd thought I'd be perceived as cool if I acted like I was up for anything. Instead I discovered that some things just aren't worth it.

As a matter of fact, getting a date might not be doable either. I didn't want to think that I might be reduced to online dating. Yeah, right. Hook up with a serial killer, why don't you, Ash?

Because promises are potato chips. They're cheap. Easy to break. Too many hurt your heart.

Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it.

She'd spent the decades barricading herself from life, setting the conditions for love so high no one else could ever meet them. Few, in fact, had made any effort. It was a simple thing, in the end, to hide in plain sight. The world did not prevent you from becoming what you were determined to become.

Men, perhaps, might nourish both heart and mind, but for a woman there could be no such luxury... How readily the rules of female behavior--gentleness, acquiescence, ever-mindfulness--turn to shackles. So, she thought, there must be declared a new kind of virtue: one that made the throwing off of such rules, and even such deceit as this required, praiseworthy.

If you find a way to live as you wish, unnatural though it might be, you'll carry on your shoulders the weight of a thousand wives' wishes. Though aloud all may curse you as a very devil.

Lovers offered only what they offered and nothing more, and what they offered came with provisos.

I wish I was perfect as you think I am. I wish I were good. I'm not. I want to be good enough. For you,

It's better this way anyways. I probably need to find someone to settle down with. It's about that time. Have the two point five kids, fake orgasms, and wallow in a stagnant career.

I never understood why something as wet and with so much sucking and licking is called a blowjob. Men don't pause long enough to give a shit, is the only conclusion I've developed over the years.

Many of the most accomplished girls are disconnecting from the truest parts of themselves, sacrificing essential self-knowledge to the pressure of who they think they ought to be.

Girls like Caroline and Lily are constantly performing, as much for the Good Girl they think they should be as for the adults and peers who look on. They have spent their lives growing internally dependent on external rewards: pats on the back A's, club presidencies, Most Valuable Player trophies. They become more concerned with how they appear and should be than who they are What other think and feel replaces what is true for them.

Parents are satisfied only if their children are gifted or exceptional (or diagnosed with a treatable problem that the right pill cocktail can restore to excellence).

Many teachers, especially those in more affluent communities, believe they are treated no better than a customer-service representative at a store.

I have standards. Well, okay, they're love standards, but I have them.

one day I am gonna grow wings a chemical reaction hysterical but useless hysterical and a let down

She hadn't thought that much about sex after she and Samuel had settled into their marriage. There had been moments of passion, certainly in those early days—finally they could be together in that way—but she relegated her needs to a shelf just out of reach, as she thought she should, as women did.

And it wasn't as if she could talk about it with Samuel, couldn't even imagine talking about it. Eventually she saw sex as part of being a wife.

Why are you still single, Ruben? Seriously. You're great with kids and close to your own family. You're gorgeous – that goes without saying – have a fairly decent job and appear to have all your teeth. What am I missing?

Two common problems with our society: 1) We are forced to study what we are not passionate about. 2) We are forced to love what ever we get.