Quotes About Anticipation

she was suddenly as intently conscious of that particular moment, of herself and her own movement. She noticed her gray linen skirt, the rolled sleeve of her gray blouse and her naked arm reaching down for the paper. She felt her heart stop causelessly in the kind of gasp one feels in moments of anticipation.

They stopped and looked at each other. She knew, only when he did it, that she had known he would. He seized her, she felt her lips in his mouth, felt her arms grasping him in violent answer...

It was one of those rare nights when I was kept awake not by my nightmares and anxieties but by something exciting and exhilarating. Most nights I lay awake waiting for some unexpected disaster…I think I somehow felt that as long as I was conscious, nothing bad could happen…

I left Tehran on June 24, 1997, for the green light that Gatsby once believed in.

We in ancient countries have our past--we obsess over the past. They, the Americans, have a dream: they feel nostalgia about the promise of the future.

We were expecting maybe a hundred people at the park," Jeremiah said, "but right now they're counting at least five hundred. They asked us to slow down so they have time to deal with the overflow.

the instant her foot touched the driveway, like

She had waited for the stab of jealousy the first time she heard the name, had braced for the squeeze in her chest, the heaviness in the pit of her stomach, the things any red-blooded wife should feel.

The past is all we know of the future.

When men want to kiss you they act like they are just on the brink of doing something that's going to change the whole wide world.

They say you thatched your roof and now you must not run out of your house if it rains.

so he just stood there brewing like a coffeepot. Only with a coffeepot you know exactly what's going to come out of it.

The clock gulps softly, eating second whole while she waits...

Then comes the day where Turp is waiting by my locker like a big red balloon fixing to pop.

My stenographer would say, 'Fairly warned is fair afeared.

Nothing was more wonderful than waiting for a happiness you could be sure of.

half the town would claim they'd seen it coming, just because they thrived on downfalls of any sort.

I felt as though I had a blind date with destiny, and someone had heard a rumor that destiny looked like Christopher Reeve.

So what do I know about ocean, still yet to stand on its sandy beard and look it in the eye? Still waiting to meet the one big thing I know is not going to swallow me alive.

I may be a preacher's daughter, but I know a thing or two. And one of them is, when men want to kiss you they act like they are just on the brink of doing something that's going to change the whole wide world.

It's hard to explain how you can miss a place and want it with all your heart, and be utterly sure it will obliterate you the instant you touch down.

life is a wild, impetuous ride. There could be good shit up ahead, don't rule it out.

Something in his nature just did not expect good things in store.

You feel like you'll never run into another one that's worth turning your head around for, but you will. You'll see." "No