Quotes About Expectation

She hadn't expected to experience this pleasure in her grief, to find it invigorating, in a way. But even as she's dying, she's realized, life goes on—even as the cancer invades her body, she still checks Twitter. At first she thought, Why would I waste even ten minutes of the time I have left checking Twitter? And then she thought, Why wouldn't I? I like Twitter!

joy isn't pleasure; it's anticipatory pain.

We tend to think that the future happens later, but we're creating it in our minds every day. When the present falls apart, so does the future we had associated with it. And having the future taken away is the mother of all plot twists. But if we spend the present trying to fix the past or control the future, we remain stuck in place, in perpetual regret.

The surprise is that you continue to be surprised.

But you were the one who came to see it! You said it was just what you were looking for!" Her voice rising—and not in an I-fancy-you way—Ginny said, "You said it was perfect!" He blinked, nonplussed. "It is perfect. For Laurel." Frantically, Ginny ran back through everything he'd told her. "No, hang on, you said your flat was too small…

A small part of her secretly hoped she caught him in bed. But that really was a very small part. The bigger part hoped he was in the shower.

Tag opened the door to his knock, and with a look of disappointment, peered behind Wade. You got someone better coming over? Wade asked him. Pizza, Tag said.

This was not how she'd envisioned the day going when she got up this morning and made that bargain with God, the one where she promised to be a better person if he gave her a whole day where she didn't have to face anything from her past. But God had just reneged on the deal. Which meant she didn't have to be a better person…

sometimes adulthood felt like the vet's office and she was the dog excited for the car ride—only to find out the destination.

The air suddenly felt charged, and he wondered which of them was going to get burned. Most likely him.

Tilly: How are you doing? Quinn: I'm thirty months pregnant, how do you think I'm doing? I'm peeing every two seconds and eating the house.

He was just drifting off when he heard her soft whisper. Cooper? Still here. Maybe she'd changed her mind about the sheet. The thought made his body twitch. Yeah, she was going to toss that damn thing aside and roll toward him. She'd wrap that hot little bod tight to his, and he'd --- Thank you. Breanne said very quietly. He blinked. Thank you? He slid his hand down to cup himself. Still hard. Nope, he hadn't missed anything...

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. —Rogers Hornsby

Doesn't everyone deserve their own version of a happily-ever-after?

Mistletoe. Lorie snatched up the dried spirg, and held it to her chest like it was a bar of gold... It's for you. You want to kiss me? Well, why didn't you just say so? Hope leaned in and puckered up. Give me your best shot. Laughing, Lorie shoved her away. I don't want to kiss you. I want someone else to kiss you. A penis-carrying someone.

You rush a miracle worker, you get lousy miracles!

Like "love," "hope" is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer.

Dammit, Dresden, if you want to know about me, wait for the autobiography like everyone else.

I hate it when the real world ignores a perfectly logical, rational assumption.

Yeah, they look great, but that isn't a fantasy come true, Harry. That's a wood chipper in Playboy bunny clothing.

Life, Tavi reflected, seldom makes a gift of what one expects or plans for.

Shame, child, is for those who fail to live up to the ideal of what they believe they should be.

You know he's not going to honor the truce," I said quietly. "He's going to try to take me out somewhere along the line. He's going to betray me." "Of course," she said. "I expect superior, more creative treachery on your part.

All you can do is try to believe that tomorrow will be what it should be- even if it isn't what you expected.