Quotes About Expectation

There was a satisfaction in being right and a terror in finding so much evidence that the world didn't work the way you or most other people thought it did.

This is the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. I you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want.

Lena always described how she dreaded and mourned things before they even happened. Carmen was beginning to suspect that she was permitting herself to mourn this long separation only now that it was over.

Carmen: "I want you to leave me alone, but not ignore me. I want you to miss me when I go away to college, but not be sad. I want you to stay exactly the same, but not be lonely or alone. I want to do the leaving, and not have you ever leave me.

I can't wait for you forever, she found herself thinking as she lay in bed most mornings, thinking about her dreams, waiting for her alarm to ring.

Maybe we tried so hard to be like the Sisterhood because it was easy for them and we wanted it to be easy for us. Because they were lucky and we wanted to be lucky too. They had wonder, and we didn't have any. We looked for the magic, but we didn't fine it. We waited for the magic, but it didn't find us.

how could he wait until midnight?

She was still holding out for something that wasn't going to happen. She was good at waiting. That seemed like a sad thing to be good at.

As she began to draw the outer edge of her cheek, she realized she had the look of a person who was waiting. Not impatient, not tortured, not frustrated. Just waiting. What was she waiting for? (...) She was still holding out for something that wasn't going to happen. She was good at waiting. That seemed like a sad thing to be good at.

He spent too much of his time responding to disasters that never happened.

He liked the right before part of things, when it was impossible to be disappointed.

Pop once said it's a good thing we don't know what's around the corner. I didn't understand what he meant then, but I do now. It's better to wish than to know.

I hung up the phone and waited for my best friend to come over.

I was sure Grandmother Madden would like that.

Ready for New York and whatever it held for me.

It wasn't at all what I expected. I guess I've seen too many Fawlty Towers reruns with Mom, so I had pictured a run-down place with eccentric characters running around. The Cardington was as modern and comfy as a Holiday Inn.

thought for sure someone would screech or gasp or fall off the bed.

Pop, can we get ice cream when we're in Barnegat Point?" she asked. "I'm not made of money," Pop replied, which didn't mean either yes or no.

Oh, goody! The doorbell.

We are going to meet Megan Rinehart tomorrow. It's worth all this work." When

When the members of the "Heaven's Gate" cult failed to spot the spacecraft they knew must be trailing the comet Hale-Bopp, they returned the $4,000 telescope they had bought for this purpose, believing it to be defective.

He goes so far as to suggest that we were secretly hoping that such devastation would be visited upon us:

You think everyone will stay behind and do everything you did all over again, forever. You picture old geezers in jean jackets doing whip-its behind the plaza.

I could always count on him letting me down.