Quotes About Anticipation

All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them came to pass.

The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.

Lena always described how she dreaded and mourned things before they even happened. Carmen was beginning to suspect that she was permitting herself to mourn this long separation only now that it was over.

I can't wait for you forever, she found herself thinking as she lay in bed most mornings, thinking about her dreams, waiting for her alarm to ring.

Even exciting places are boring most of the time. Wars. Movie sets. Emergency rooms.

There was something about a wedding. No matter how much you put into it, you could always put in more. There was always someone else you could call, some other question you could ask, something else you could buy. You could put every worry, every desire, every whim, every moment of your waking day into a wedding, and it was big enough to absorb them all.

how could he wait until midnight?

As she began to draw the outer edge of her cheek, she realized she had the look of a person who was waiting. Not impatient, not tortured, not frustrated. Just waiting. What was she waiting for? (...) She was still holding out for something that wasn't going to happen. She was good at waiting. That seemed like a sad thing to be good at.

the light had the clear, sharp quality which comes before rain.

He spent too much of his time responding to disasters that never happened.

He liked the right before part of things, when it was impossible to be disappointed.

Pop once said it's a good thing we don't know what's around the corner. I didn't understand what he meant then, but I do now. It's better to wish than to know.

I hung up the phone and waited for my best friend to come over.

I was sure Grandmother Madden would like that.

Ready for New York and whatever it held for me.

We both jumped for it.

thought for sure someone would screech or gasp or fall off the bed.

I was all packed and ready to go.

I just love checking our mailbox. There is something about getting mail that is exciting. Going out to the box each afternoon is sometimes the highlight of my day.

I'm going out tonight. With Alex.

Oh, goody! The doorbell.

We are going to meet Megan Rinehart tomorrow. It's worth all this work." When

I feel racing and suspension all at once.

Such, said Nekayah, is the state of life, none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish it to change again. The world is not yet exhausted. Let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.