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Quotes About Expectation

I am waiting for a man to come in here and fuck me sideways with a beautiful line like that
~ Patrick Marber
I'm afraid the truth is you're putting yourself in for plenty of disappointment if you expect people to hang around for very long in this life!
~ Unknown
Di solito vogliono che tu tenga la bocca chiusa, a volte pretendono che gridi, e si aspettano che tu sappia la differenza. Era questo che trovava buffo.
~ Unknown
For me the autumn has never been a sad season. The dead leaves and the increasingly shorter days have never suggested the end of anything, but rather an expectation of the future. In paris, there is an electricity in the air in october evenings at nightfall. Even when it is raining. i do not feel low at that hour of the day, nor do i have the sense of time flying by. i have the impression that everything is possible. the year begins in the month of october.
~ Patrick Modiano
One should never expect anyone to reply to one's questions.
~ Patrick Modiano
we had no real qualities, except the one that youth gives to everyone for a very brief time, like a big promise that will never be kept.
~ Patrick Modiano
It's not a large crowd," he said, "and I have the feeling this wedding party is going to end in an orgy." He shrugged his shoulders.
~ Patrick Modiano
As incredible as it seemed, time kept moving forward for the rest of the world. The rest of the world that wasn't waiting.
~ Patrick Ness
No one ever seems to wonder what happens if it turns out we hate living on a planet? What if the sky's too big? What if the air stinks? What if we go hungry?' 'And what if the air tastes of honey? What if there's so much food we all get too fat? What if the sky is so beautiful we don't get any work done because we're all looking at it too much?
~ Patrick Ness
It is not what I want from you, Conor O'Malley, it said. It is what you want from me . "I don't want anything from you," Conor said. Not yet, said the monster. But you will.
~ Patrick Ness
She waits to see how I take this. I have no idea how I take this.
~ Patrick Ness
Life does not have to go how you think it will...Not even when you are very sure what is going to happen.
~ Patrick Ness
You know, the way teenage guys talk about sex, you'd think all of us were having it all the time, nonstop.
~ Patrick Ness
Schier unglaublich - für den Rest der Welt ging das Leben einfach weiter. Für den Rest der Welt, der nicht wartete.
~ Patrick Ness
Por increíble que pudiera parecer, el tiempo seguía pasando para el resto del mundo. El resto del mundo que no estaba a la espera.
~ Patrick Ness
What do you do when your dreams are about to come true? No one ever tells you. They tell you to chase them, but what happens when you actually catch one?
~ Patrick Ness
What do you do when your dreams are about to come true?" she asks. "No one ever tells you. They tell you to chase them, but what happens when you actually catch one?
~ Patrick Ness
We would have wanted you to like us. We realise now that we probably would have failed.
~ Patrick Ness
Although doesn't really matter how many time you do it: you think it's going to make your life less lonely, but it never does.
~ Patrick Ness
But no. There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Laying in the dark, she wondered what the day would bring. Some days were trumpet-proud. They heralded like thunder. Some were courteous, careful as a lettered card upon a silver plate. But some days were shy. They did not name themselves. They waited for a careful girl to find them.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Soon. She knew. Soon he would come visiting. Incarnadine and sweet and sad and broken. Just like her.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Do you know the saying Chan Vaen edan Kote ?' I tried to puzzle it out. 'Seven years... I don't know Kote ' 'Expect disaster every seven years,' he said.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
I hate it when I have to wait the next book in a series to come out. Don't you hate it when you have to wait for the next book in a series to come out?
~ Patrick Rothfuss