Quotes About Expectation

We never find what we set out hearts on. We ought to be glad of that.

If you think this has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention.

When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east," she said sadly. "When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves. When my womb quickens again, and I bear a living child. Then you will return, my sun-and-stars, and not before." -Daenerys Targaryen

If a man paints a target on his chest, he should expect that sooner or later someone will loose an arrow on him.

When we speak of the morrow nothing is ever certain.

I do so hope he plays us 'The Rains of Castamere.' It has been an hour. I've forgotten how it goes.

She was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her man had always made her wait.

I have never forgotten, and I can't imagine you have, and I've thought of it over the years. It was so good, when it was good, I kept thinking. How could it go wrong?

Why do our dreams become so much smaller when they finally come true?

They laughed at him, but they didn't know, they didn't know about all the nice things he had. No one knew. No one. Only someday he'd see somebody different, somebody to give his things to, somebody who would give him all their things. Yes. He'd like that. He'd know her when he saw her. He'd know just what to say.

Paint stripes on a toad, he does not become a tiger.

We'll never find that one, and I'll be blamed," announced Edd Tollett, the dour grey-haired squire everyone called Dolorous Edd. "Nothing ever goes missing that they don't look at me, ever since that time I lost my horse. As if that could be helped. He was white and it was snowing, what did they expected

This fool he promised me is like to be my own reflection in a pond.

Oldtown waited for the dawn, and the coming of the dragons. And the dragons came.

What we want is not always what we get.

Even dreams cannot live up here.

Men see what they expect to see,

Tyrion seated himself and took a sip of wine. "If a man paints a target on his chest, he should expect that sooner or later someone will loose an arrow at him. I have seen dead men with more humor than your Ser Alliser.

When your womb quickens again, and you bear a living child, then he will return, and not before.

The gardener digs a hole in the ground and throws in a seed and waters it and he hopes something comes up. Now, he knows generally what's going to come up. He knows whether he planted an acorn for an oak tree or a tomato plant to get some tomatoes for the summer. But there's a lot of details he doesn't know. It may not grow at all. It may grow a little and then die. It may go wild. A chipmunk may eat it during the night. You don't know.

Just once you might try to give me an answer that would please me, Lord Snow.

Los hombres siempre aseguran estar hambrientos de verdad, pero cuando se la sirven, pocos encuentran su sabor agradable. Tyrion Lannister

It was not just for herself that she feared now, but for her baby. He must have sensed her fright, for he moved restlessly inside her.

No more than he knew that the Beggar King would die young, or that Khal Drogo would follow him into the grave. Very little of what the fat man has anticipated has come to pass.