Quotes About Expectation

When they got to Sam Sheridan's house, Mel preceded Jack up the walk toward the front door while Jack began toting luggage and gifts. "Mel," he called, causing her to turn around to see him smiling brightly. "You're starting to waddle," he said proudly. "Uh!" she exclaimed, tossing her hair as she turned abruptly away from him. Although

Good luck with this, man." "It's not what you think." "Oh—it is what I think. You're so into this woman, you're done for. I can't wait to see how this turns out." "Yeah. Me, too.

for their signatures, she returned visitors' passes with dexterity, if not pleasure. Nikki hoped to be the first person allowed inside, but she was disappointed.

All Good Things Comes To He Who Waits

May was like the Friday night of summer: all the good times lying ahead of you, bright and shiny and waiting to be lived.

Because that's the thing with getting what you want: all that yearning and dreaming and fantasizing leaves a great big hole that can only be filled with more yearning and dreaming and fantasizing.

There was her life in a nutshell.  Beau was asked.  And Mandy wasn't.  Mandy was never asked, she was told.  And like the good girl she was raised to be, Mandy always complied. 

Tomorrow was a big day in Storm. She didn't want to miss one moment of it.

tardiness was allowable only in babies born past their due date.

Cynthia's face popped onto the screen, a gorgeous, blue-eyed blonde with a dazzling smile. Mindy thought of the baby and how pretty he or she would have been.

The room? Why am I not surprised?

Mary? You in love?" She looks up at me expectantly. With her shaggy haircut, there on the floor, she reminds me of a sheepdog waiting for a Milk-Bone. "I'm in confusion.

didn't get to live the full life she deserved. Our feelings were bittersweet, all the time. I was hoping that someday, there would be more sweetness than bitterness

gestured to an empty chair

eating for two.

Judy felt dismayed. A half hour? She couldn't learn much about the gym in half an hour.

Because inside we still carry the dreams of what could have been, of what should have been, of what we wish could still be. This doesn't mean we aren't content. We are content, but the romantic longings of our girlhood have never entirely left us. It's like Yen-Yen said all those years ago: 'I look in the mirror and I'm surprised by what I see.' I look in the mirror and still expect to see my Shanghai-girl self- not the wife and mother I've become.

What was the purpose of being wrapped like a present if you had no feelings for the person you were being given to?

What's your first impression of a new place? Is it the first meal you eat? Your first ice cream cone? The first person you meet? The first night you spend in your new bed in your new home? The first broken promise?

Deh-ja smiles happily. "Let it be a son. Let it be a son. Let it be a son.

For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me – as a girl and later as a woman – to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.

But did you know that eyewitness testimony is often totally unreliable? The human memory only records events through the filter of its own frame of reference. We try to fit the information we receive into schemas, units of knowledge that we possess about the world that correspond with frequently encountered situations, individuals, ideas, and situations. In other words, we often see things as we expect to see them, or want to see them, and not always as they are.

Birdie wondered why that so often seemed to be the case—once you had what you wanted, it was a shadow of what you'd dreamed it to be.

Love, a promise delivered already broken.