Quotes About Expectation

You can't leave me here to hope, when in reality you've already decided everything.

it was a good rule not to expect the ideal but to enjoy what is possible.

We were supposed to go to the sea and we hadn't gone, I had been punished for nothing. A mysterious inversion of attitudes had occurred: I, despite the rain, would have continued on the road, I felt far from everything and everyone, and distance--I discovered for the first time--extinguished in me every tie and every worry; Lila had abruptly repented of her own plan, she had given up the sea, she had wanted to return to the confines of the neighborhood. I couldn't figure it out.

The conclusion we drew from this convinced us that it was best to do everything on purpose, deliberately, so that you would know what to expect.

It was predictable, of course, but now that a date had been fixed, March 12th, it was as if I had been strolling absentmindedly and banged into a door.

Como tudo é suave, pensei, quando o dia está bonito e todas as coisas boas parecem estar esperando só por você.

Buenos o malos, todos los hombres se creen que en cada una de sus empresas debes colocarlos en un altar cual san Jorge que mata al dragón.

This is what awaits me, I thought. Evenings like this. Appearing at the house of strangers, marked as a woman waiting to remake her life.

Buoni o cattivi, gli uomini credono tutti che a ogni loro impresa devi metterli su un altare come san Giorgio che ammazza il drago.

She deserved Nino, in other words, because she thought that to love him meant to try to have him, not to hope that he would want her.

Bons ou maus, os homens acham todos que por qualquer façanha deles tens de lhes erguer um altar, como o São Jorge a matar o dragão.

I don't want anything, I'm made of nothing. I hoped to wake in the morning without desires.

Quant à mes professeurs, ils semblaient avoir décidé d'emblée que j'étais une excellente élève par une sorte d'inertie inhérente à l'ensemble de ce système scolaire poussiéreux.

Places of the imagination are visited in books. Seen in reality they may be hard to recognize; they are disappointing, they might even seem fake.

Do you have your book?" "No, it's not out yet." "A copy of the last one you wrote?" "Yes." "Take it and sit here, pretend to be reading." I obeyed in a daze. Tina grabbed a book, too, and assumed the same pose, saying to Imma: Take a picture of me.

She felt alone, she was secretly waiting for a father who wasn't showing up, she could no longer hold the confusion of that day within the limits of a game.

mi immaginai che non fosse morta insoddisfatta e sospirai di soddisfazione inattesa.

Bons ou maus, todos os homens acham que, a cada ação deles, você deve colocá-los num altar como um são Jorge matando o dragão.

Una noche la soñé y tal como la soñé amaneció frente a mi puerta.

Wer suchet, der findet Anstößiges, auf das er insgeheim hofft.

não sabe como pode amor ser tão mal recompensado, que é como quem diz o seu amor. Esperamos sempre do nosso trabalho a recompensa. Acreditamos que o trabalho dos outros não precisa de ser recompensado, esperamos poder pagá-lo mais barato.

brigitte wants to have her future made. she cannot produce it herself.

she must wait, till someone takes her, but afterwards, and then let herself be taken, but only afterwards. because if, like you, she lets herself be taken before, then she can count herself lucky afterwards, if anyone takes her at all.

when paula asks one of the women, what she would like, then she would like something for the whole family, for example, a car, in which then the whole family sits, and in which the mother is forever waiting to get a chance to smack the child's fingers, to be able to justify her own presence.