Quotes About Anticipation

The room? Why am I not surprised?

school tomorrow.

gestured to an empty chair

Judy felt dismayed. A half hour? She couldn't learn much about the gym in half an hour.

I imagined my first night alone in bed with my stranger. I conjured our future years together unhampered by worries about money or officialdom. We would enjoy the day, the night, a smile, a word, a kiss, a glance. All lovely thoughts. All pointless dreams.

What's your first impression of a new place? Is it the first meal you eat? Your first ice cream cone? The first person you meet? The first night you spend in your new bed in your new home? The first broken promise?

Deh-ja smiles happily. "Let it be a son. Let it be a son. Let it be a son.

Lia aimed, shifted and waited, watching one man peek out time and time again. She let her arrow fly anticipating his next peek at us and it pierced his eye. "Okay that's just going to make 'em mad " I said. "Three hundred and ninety-two " she said to Luca tossing her braid over her shoulder and taking aim again. "Saints in heaven " he said to me rolling his eyes "how much deeper in love can I yet fall?

Don't you agree? Swordplay is a dance of sorts, an understanding of the logical, most sophisticated next step. Except that in a fight, one must take the unexpected step. In dance it is all about taking the right, expected step.

Okay, try this on for size, Tall, Dark and Handsome. I won't be born for almost seven hundred hundred years. How's that strike you?

heart thumping.

her in a wide circle, heart thumping.

The room was filled with the electricity of mistakes about to be made.

No one can make it rain, but I'm very good at knowing when the rain will come.

often the trouble with magical things. They're never quite what you'd expect.

It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.

It was harder for the ones who were waiting, Annemarie knew. Less danger, perhaps, but more fear.

and we have been told that they may come tonight

He had waited a long time for this special December. Now that it was almost upon him, he wasn't frightened, but he was . . . eager, he decided. He was eager for it to come. And he was excited, certainly. All of the Elevens were excited about the event that would be coming so soon.

Suddenly he was aware with certainty and joy that below, ahead, they were waiting for him; and that they were waiting, too, for the baby.

The corner was just ahead.

Upright, my tail! Forward, my feet! Prepare, teeth! We approach hamburger!

he remembered the excitement, the conversations at home, wondering about her: how she would look, who she would be, how she would fit into their established family unit.

Yes, of course. Tomorrow . . . or you can call me whenever you're ready. You have my number?" "Yes, you gave me several of them back on Komarr. I still have them.