Quotes About Expectation

Love doesn't always make sense...or happen the way you expect.

begun. "This is going to be the absolute best day ever!

Okay, I guess you can come in." "Um, Hannah, you have to, you know, open the front door so I can actually come in." "I thought you were going to - you're standing under my window. Aren't you supposed to climb up here or something?" "My ladder's at home. Also, you call throwing rocks at your window clichéd?

I thought you were going to— you're standing under my window. Aren't you supposed to climb up here or something?" "My ladder's at home.

I will always know what life can take, but I am ready to see what it can give.

You can plan all you want, but you will never know what will be. Life just is, and I am here in it. I am waiting for what comes next.

Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.

It is a gift in this life that we do not know what awaits us.

How did you ever know? You never knew anything, and anyone who thought they knew anything - well, they were in for a great big surprise.

Walking down the sidewalk I thought how my mother had never said I love you to me, and I thought how Chrissy had been going to call the baby Lucy. She loved me, my daughter! Even knowing this, I was surprised. In truth, I was amazed.

and they undoubtedly think that will last, the way new couples do. They think they're finished with loneliness, too.

Living did not mean one joy piled upon another. It was merely the hope for less pain, hope played like a playing card upon another hope, a wish for kindnesses and mercies to emerge like kings and queens in an unexpected twist in the game. One could hold the cards oneself or not: they would land the same way, regardless. Tenderness did not enter into it, except in a damaged way.

Stupid — this assumption people have, that things should somehow be right.

Hello, Olive," he said, walking to her. He wanted to put his arms around her, but she had a darkness that seemed to stand beside her like an acquaintance that would not go away. He told her the Thibodeaus were coming for supper. "It's only right," he said. Olive wiped sweat from her upper lip, turned to rip up a clump of onion grass. "Then that's that, Mr. President," she said. "Give your order to the cook.

The World to Come

If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.

You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper.

I would have thought that the knowledge that you are going to be leapt upon by half-a-dozen congratulatory, but sweaty team-mates would be inducement not to score a goal.

Tu viendras, tu viendras, je t'aime ! Ce sera beau. Tu viendras, n'est-ce pas, et même... Elle - Et mon bureau ?

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Death by hanging...well, in view of the whole situation, I never expected anything different. It's all right.

It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket.

Había aprendido que lo malo no era la espera, sino las cosas que imaginas mientras esperas".

Lo malo de estas cosas es que, hasta que el rabo no pasa, todo es toro.