Quotes About Expectations

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guild is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.

I was going to say the beginning is the good part, when it's all sparks and sparkles, before they are inevitably unmasked as assholes.

Can you believe him? Does he think if he just dangle his boy bits at you like a cat toy you'll go scampering after him?" "Of course he thinks that," said Karou. "This is his idea of a romantic gesture.

Anyway, I gave her the ring. We were serious at the time. Words were spoken, promises made, unborn children were imagined and named! We were twenty-two years old. We get engaged, everything is fine, and then—well, a decade goes by.

I think they'll probably put that on my gravestone. 'He Was Heterosexual and Had Low Expectations.

Isabelle and Sebastian? Hardly. Sebastian's a nice guy – Isabelle only likes dating thoroughly inappropriate boys our parents will hate. Mundanes, Downworlders, petty crooks…" "Thanks," Simon said. "I'm glad to be classed with the criminal element.

You're Valentine's son. I'm sure you're the one the Queen really wants to see. Besides, you're charming. Maybe not at the moment.

You'd think the Angel would have been foresighted enough to give us a birth-control rune, but no dice.

Not everyone wants you all the time, Jace," he said. "Don't be ridiculous.

You know, when most girls say they want a big rock, they don't mean, you know, literally a big rock." "Very amusing, my sarcastic friend. It's not a rock, precisely. All Shadowhunters have a witchlight rune-stone.

We don't always love people who deserve it.

he's probably never met a six-foot tall hot elf-women in a fur bikini either.

Jem: I know what you're thinking. Tessa:I don't think you do. You're think, If they call this damp nastiness summer, what must winter be like? You'd be surprised. Winter's actually much the same. It's spring that's really lovely. Tessa:Is it? Jem:No. It's actually quite foggy and wet as well.

Making promises you can't keep is worse than making no promises at all.

You know when most girls say they want a big rock, they dont mean, you know, literally a big rock ." -Clary to Jace, pg.313-

Well, you know what they say," said James. "All the best men are either married or Silent Brothers.

I don't think Will Herondale and a sense of responsibility are even on speaking terms

Carstairs is alright, I suppose. If you like that sort." "Oh?" "The taken. The uninterested." "As opposed to… you, Gabriel?" "Well, yes.

Your father," Luke said, "what did he say to you when you saw him? What did he promise you?" "Oh, you know. The usual. A lifetime's supply of Knicks tickets.

I tell myself he's better than he makes himself out to be, but, Tessa, what if he isn't?

And now, I'm going to sleep. I'll see you in the morning, he said to Simon. "You," he said to Jace, "well, I guess I'll see you around. You're the first Shadowhunter I've ever met." "That's too bad," said Jace, "since all the ones you meet from now on will be a terrible letdown." Kyle rolled his eyes and left, banging his bedroom door shut behind him.

Lord Montgomery considers nothing but his own desires," he said in a gravelly voice. "I'll tell you something else. Lord Montgomery has a very large estate...and pretty extensive grounds, too." Isabelle giggled, and Simon felt the bed shake under them. "Okay, I didn't expect you to get quite so into this." "Lord Montgomery always surpasses expectations.

You can't just call the Praetor. It's not like 1-800-WEREWOLF.

You really want to know what else it was my mom said about you?" he asked. She shook her head. He didn't seem to notice. "She said you'd break my heart," he told her, and left.