Quotes About Expectation

I should like you to be on the verge of love but not yet quite in it. That's a very nice state of mind, while it lasts. -But of course, I had already dived over that verge and was swimming away in a blue sea of illusion towards, I supposed, the islands of the blest, but really towards domesticity, maternity and the usual lot of womankind.

Her life was expected to be as anonymous as the era's needlework.

Yet our old expectation that the suburbs are homey, tranquil and predictable places continues to gnaw at the feminine collective subconscious. The suburban home still begs for a presiding divinity -- a keeper of the keys and human cares, the archetypal mother of earlier ages.

When you're living your life in endurance mode, you don't expect anything good to happen. I'm not saying that you don't dream about some miracle that would change everything for the better. But you pretty much know it's only a fantasy, and that you have no real control over anything.

It wasn't that I wanted a husband and a baby; I didn't, or rather, I only wanted them the way I wanted to live to a hundred: someday, far off, never thinking about the particulars.

They were all delightedly hoping to give me exactly the post-Scholomance life I'd dreamed of for years. The bastards.

The Staryk didn't know anything of keeping records: I suppose it was only to be expected from people who didn't take on debts and were used to entire chambers wandering off and having to be called back like cats.

It was exactly what I wanted, only once I was in it, I didn't want it after all.

It wasn't that I wanted a husband and a baby; I didn't, or rather, I only wanted them the way I wanted to live to a hundred: someday, far off, never thinking about the particulars. But they meant life: she was living, and I wasn't.

I opened the door expecting to find something really horrible inside, and I did: eight freshmen, all of whom turned and stared at me like a herd of small and especially pitiful deer about to be mown down by a massive lorry.

Naturally I came out designed to be the exact opposite of this paragon, as anyone with a basic understanding of the balancing principle might have expected

Kennelijk willen veel van ons vandaag de eerste run doen,' zei Alfie op die opgewekte toon waarop een ander wellicht zou zeggen: 'Zo te zien gaat het regenen vandaag!' terwijl het al met bakken uit de hemel komt en je onder een luifel staat te schuilen met vijf anderen met een mes in hun hand, en jij voorzichtig je hand in je zak steek om je pistool te pakken.

was still young and foolish enough at the time to believe myself and my magic likely to elicit admiration instead of alarm, and

Als bungeejumpen van de hoogste klif ter wereld je geweldig lijkt, zou je dit ook fantastisch vinden. Ik vond het persoonlijk niks.

When they invite you to the party Remember what parties are like Before answering.

Last year we thought this year would be better and this year last year looks pretty good.

One day soon it will stumble up the walk and knock, knock hard, and you will have to answer the door.

As with "remote learning," Zoom rolled out everywhere as a cultural expectation without question or variation. It wasn't as if some businesses met or polled their workers or created a hybrid model — no, the social norm was established almost overnight. Everyone suddenly knew how to navigate it, and a whole Zoom culture appeared at once.

It was bizarre to see the expectation that mothers-to-be must be "masked" as they were in labor. Everyone in the birthing community teaches the critical importance of breathing correctly, for safe births. That well-documented central belief was dropped by the right-on obstetric and doula community overnight.

I will be back soon if not sooner and when I come back I will return.

Speak to the branches of spring and the surprise of blossoms: they too hope for a good year.

He had ten hopes to your one.

She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.

Hope is cruel and has no consequence