Quotes About Expectation

That's not how I'd planned it to be. How did you plan it to be? I ask, not to be snarky but because I am genuinely curious. I planned it to be a million different things, he replies. And in the end, I couldn't figure which one it should be.

They still have plenty to say to each other, just not anything right now.

I say good-bye to hope, but I also say goodbye to hope's disappointment.

But I'll wait for next time. Because I know there will be a next time. I was looking forward to next time the minute I met her. Throughout the night, I've been looking forward to next time, and the time after that, and the time after that. I know this is something.

They said you weren't coming back. I didn't believe them. I wanted to hear it from you.

Here's what breaks us: Even if we know better, we still want everything to be all right

I am not ready to see what happens next. Because it's possible that nothing will happen, and that might break me.

I had never really thought of marriages as things that involved liking. I had just assumed this man-woman arrangement was yet another adult quirk, like flossing.

It's like being ready to pay full price for a top and then learning it's for sale. No - it's like being ready to pay full price for a top and then learning it's free!

I'll go get the horse and buggy, you'll say. And I'll say, But I thought we were taking the hovercraft?

i thought i was going to be early, but of course by the time i get near where we're supposed to meet, i'm later than a pregnant girl's period.

If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough...

Here's what breaks us: Even though we know better, we still want everything to be all right.

I can't imagine it. It doesn't feel like a believable future. Which feels like a cop-out. Because who wants to end up with a future that was always believable?

If there is one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.

We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.

roger is bald and fat and his wife is probably bald and fat, too, and the last thing i want to hear about is them having bald and fast sex.

the things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end.

I fear you may have outmatched me, because now I find these words have nowhere to go. It's hard to answer a question you haven't been asked. It's hard to show that you tried unless you end up succeeding.

i have to keep reminding myself that this is what i wanted - this is what everybody's supposed to want.

I got confused between what I wanted to happen and what I should have known would happen. I've been doing that a lot lately. I know it's not helpful.

jed talks about the foreseeable future and how little there is that we can foresee.

before I can ask you what's going on, you tell me there's something we need to talk about. This is it, the moment before you tell me the precise thing I don't want to know. Is this the zenith? This last moment of ignorance? Or does it come much later?

You should never wish for wishful thinking.