Quotes About Expectation

Tell me about your project." "It's a surprise," I said loudly over the siren. "I don't like surprises." No surprise there.

The pause makes you think the song will end. And then the song isn't really over, so you're relieved. But then the song does actually end, because every song ends, obviously, and THAT. TIME. THE. END. IS. FOR. REAL.

Nothing is free! Only children expect otherwise even as myths and fairy tales warn us: Rumpelstiltskin, King Midas, Handsel and Gretel. Never trust a candy house! It was only a matter of time before someone made them pay for what they thought they were getting for free.

There are things you're just positive will happen to you. Then there's that second when you realize, Jesus Christ. Maybe they won't.

Say, I'd like to speak with your pa this afternoon, if he's a minute to spare." "You know where to look." "Why don't I stop by around three." This plan, so casually made that it hardly qualified as an appointment, could not have been more ironclad had it been typed into an executive diary by a secretarial school graduate fluent in stenography

He'd chanced upon his favorite hour: A premonition of dawn without any visible sign of it.

It's 1991, and a lot of things that are about to happen haven't happened yet.

That we have some history together that hasn't happened yet.

You said you were a fairy princess You said you were a shooting star You said we'd go to Bora Bora Now look at where the fuck we are

To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.

For years, struggling to raise the daughter she'd expected to have, she had failed to see the one she'd gotten.

Holy crap, my heart was arrogant to believe her spotless track record could stay that way.

A promise is only as good as the person who makes it. The character of the promiser is what gives the promise its value. His promises are meant to ignite faith and expectation and desire, and then to point us to Him. His promises act to bind our hearts to His. His promises turn our eyes toward Him. When our hearts are occupied with who He is, it will not be hard to believe what He promises to do. The revelation of His person is the secret to trusting His promises.

You better have had a baby, killed someone, or slept with a pure. Those are your three options. Anything less is unsuitable.

Sterling turned to Michael. I expected her to ask him something, but instead she just held out her hand. "Keys." "Spatula," Michael replied. She narrowed her eyes at him. "We aren't just saying random nouns?" he asked archly.

Tess," I said. For a moment, Emilia and I studied each other. She was tall, with strawberry-blond hair and eyes that walked the line between green and blue. She wore almost no makeup, except for a light gloss on her lips. "So you're Ivy Kendrick's sister," she said finally. "I thought you'd be taller." "I'll get right to work on that." Emilia cracked a very small smile.

She wasn't going to sit and wait. She was done waiting, because you could spend your whole life waiting for something to happen. Something big. You could wait and wait, and even if something big happened, even if it finally happened—it didn't change anything.

Ik heb nog iets van je tegoed. - Emilia

People were fundamentally predictable. If you stopped expecting them to surprise you, they couldn't disappoint.

I stared at him--through the night, through the space between us. He looked away first. I was used to people walking away. I was good at not expecting anything from anyone.

I have this feeling, like I'm waiting for something. But I have no idea what.

Theodore Finch leans against an SUV, hands in pockets, like he has all the time in the world and he expects me. I think of the Virginia Woolf lines, the ones from The Waves: "Pale, with dark hair, the one who is coming is melancholy, romantic. And I am arch and fluent and capricious; for he is melancholy, he is romantic. He is here.

The thing I need most in this world is a long, hot shower, but what I get instead is a trickle of warm water followed by a blast of Icelandic cold

I know life well enough to know you can't count on things staying around or standing still, no matter how much you want them to.