Quotes About Expectation

Anticipating the worst doesn't provide insurance from the worst happening," Mimmy says.

But this was classic Sam—he had learned to tolerate the sometimes-painful present by living in the future.

Anticipating the worst doesn't provide insurance from the worst happening

Isn't that the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over but expecting a different result.

Alabaster eyed Emily's still growing stomach. "How many months are you along now?" "Perhaps eleven. I'm not sure. Soon, I shall be able to roll from Upper Foglands to town." "I feel you have lived here longer than eleven months, and you were with child when you arrived. Is it possible your unborn child is waiting for you to be married?" "No, I could never have a child so conventional," Emily said.

Retrospectively, he realized that he had made a grave miscalculation when he had ended the friendship with Sadie. His mistake had been in thinking the world would be filled with Sadie Greens, people like her. It was not.

he had learned to tolerate the sometimes-painful present by living in the future.

He had said it would be trouble if she came to his apartment, and still she had gone. If someone tells you there will be trouble, believe them.

Sadie loathed games where the box art was spectacular but when you went to play the actual game, it looked nothing like the concept art.

If you're honest with yourself, one of the reasons you moved into an off-campus apartment and didn't get any roommates is because you hoped something like this would happen. You set the stage, and you knew the player wouldn't be able to resist the call of the theater.

In certain seasons, We may be nourished by The idea of the carrot More than the carrot itself.

The best part of this moment, he thought, is that everything is still possible.

They loved him. He was more handsome in front of a crowd; his limp, less apparent; his voice, warm and authoritative. It was as if all these years Sam had been waiting for an audience.

his eyes reminded Sam of his own. They had the patina of a person who had felt pain and expected to feel it again.

He is a reader, and what he believes in is narrative construction. If a gun appears in act one, that gun had better go off by act three.

YOU CAN KIND of see them if you get on your tippy toes and look over the fence," A.J. says. "There, in the distance!" They had left Alice at seven that morning, taken the ferry to Hyannis, then driven two hours to Portsmouth only to discover that the Green Animals Topiary Garden is closed from November through May. A.J. finds that he cannot make eye contact with either his daughter or Lambiase. It is twenty-nine degrees, but shame is keeping him warm.

A.J. feels for the engagement ring in his pocket. Is this the moment? No, too Jumbotron.

Still, she is glad for the diversion and she doesn't want to become the kind of person who thinks that good news can only come from calls one was already expecting and callers one already knows.

If a gun appears in act one, that gun had better go off by act three.

A. J. does not particularly care for writers . . . . He tries to avoid meeting the ones who've written books he loves for fear that they will ruin their books for him.

A.J. piensa en qué parecido es todo el género policíaco. ¿Por qué un libro es diferente de cualquier otro? Son diferentes, concluye A.J., porque son. Tenemos que ver muchos por dentro. Tenemos que creer. Aceptamos llevarnos alguna decepción para que, de vez en cuando, algo nos entusiasme de verdad.

Anticipating the worst doesn't provide insurance from the worst happening

Es menos satisfactorio un giro si se ve venir? ¿Un giro que no podemos prevenir es síntoma de mala construcción? Hay que plantearse estas cosas al escribir.

Why is any one book different from any other book? They are different, because they are. We have to look inside many. We have to believe. We agree to be disappointed sometimes so that we can be exhilarated every now and again.