Quotes About Anticipation

The last days before graduation are bad enough, God knows--out of the womb you go, ready or not. The halls rang with the laughter of the girls who were going to be brides in the next week (and widows shortly after)...

I thought you were going to— you're standing under my window. Aren't you supposed to climb up here or something?" "My ladder's at home.

It is a gift in this life that we do not know what awaits us.

As has often been the case with me, I began to dread this in advance... But early on I saw this: You are wasting time by suffering twice. I mention this only to show how many things the mind cannot will itself to do, even if it wants to.

Up in Shirley Falls, spring was slower to arrive. Nights were cold, but the way the dawn light cracked open along the horizon, bringing a gentle moistness that lightly touched the skin, spoke of a full-throated summer to come, and it was painful, all the promise in the air.

The World to Come

Le piacerebbe pranzare insieme uno di questi giorni?" "Vorrei cenare insieme", rispose lui. "Mi darebbe qualcosa da aspettare. Se esco a pranzo, poi avrò ancora davanti il resto della giornata".

I would have thought that the knowledge that you are going to be leapt upon by half-a-dozen congratulatory, but sweaty team-mates would be inducement not to score a goal.

I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door.

The highest task of intelligence: to imagine a future and then smooth its approach.

Tu viendras, tu viendras, je t'aime ! Ce sera beau. Tu viendras, n'est-ce pas, et même... Elle - Et mon bureau ?

Había aprendido que lo malo no era la espera, sino las cosas que imaginas mientras esperas".

Lo malo de estas cosas es que, hasta que el rabo no pasa, todo es toro.

El 326 tenía por delante menos futuro que María Antonieta la mañana que le cortaron el pelo en la Conciergerie.

Más vale un por si acaso —argumentó el mayor— que un quién lo iba a decir.

Acudiendo a la cita como la mayor parte de las mujeres acudían a la primera cita: más por curiosidad y desafío que por deseo.

El hueco prematuro que una pérdida intuida y posible, tal vez probable, deja de antemano en el vientre y el corazón.

Una precaución de más es una sorpresa de menos.

en la duda, madrugarle al otro. Mejor era un por si acaso que un quién lo hubiera pensado.

What about the future?" "We'll talk about the future when it gets here.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

But you've looked forward to this trip for so long." "And now I won't have it to look forward to any longer.

Should I call you Grayson?" "For now." He placed his hands on her hips and moved in close. "After tonight we'll be a whole lot more than friends."

Results are what you expect, and consequences are what you get.