Quotes About Expectation

She could already imagine the dexterity with which Mallory's arched dark eyebrows would rise, and the answer which didn't need saying.

Kit drew breath in an agony of anticipation, felt Mehiel's surrender in the coldness of his brands.

I hate hanging our hopes on a man, even if he is both gentle and his mother's son. But he came.

I was so caught up in thinking about what might happen when I got to Heaven that I forgot to die on the way down at all.

I had seen her in the shadows. She had been waiting for some time.

Breath held, I will her to speak without making me ask for it, but Riel plays this game better than I do.

I kept waiting for her to reach out, to ask, to flirt. To get back to her gaslighting games, to get whatever she wanted from me.

Everyone was waiting for something: an arrival, a departure. It made a pleasing sort of allegory.

His poet would never disappoint him.

It did not take a great deal of native genius for Cathoair to figure out that they wanted something from him.

The expectation of an injury can hurt as much as the injury itself.

Muire had never expected the Technomancer, as people were beginning to call her, to come to her door.

It was no other than he had expected, but he could play out the game.

If I could see her, she could probably see me. If she was looking, and maybe even if she wasn't. And I expected her to be looking.

In spite of his name, Bob Troutman wasn't much of a catch.

There were readers who could expect no more from life, and just dared to look in books to see how much they had missed.

But something that should have been going on had not gone on: something had not happened.

They had sat round a painted, not a burning, fire, at which you tried in vain to warm your hands.....

There was the dream of happiness and then there was what was real.

When you look at them as babies in the cradle, you never know what they are going to become, but you always hope for the best.

Everyone knew that; everyone was prepared until it happened to them

What kind of a promise ? One that only a fool asks of a madman

I think I'm dying to get to know a particular guy. Then he opens his mouth and ruins it.

Non esiste una parola peggiore di "potenziale". È la storia di tutte le cose che non saranno mai