Quotes About Anticipation

Donovan stared at the car silently, contemplating it the way a matador looks at the bull he is going to fight.

anticipated doing, anyway. But for now he was

They'll both know somebody's out there, coming for them.

The excitement and adrenaline that accompany a new case caused a false high that always wore off quickly.

Better hope so," she said.

have sat in your mailbox for four days.

She watched the clock like the owner of a candy store watches the fat kids.

Someone's coming." Terry McCaleb looked at his wife and then followed her eyes down to the winding road below. He could see the golf cart making its way up the steep and winding road to the

The next message was from Roy Lindell. He also followed the standard of brevity. "All right, asshole, I've got something for you. Call me.

All his life he believed he was slumming toward something good.

Mr. Elliot will see you now.

antivuelco. Como suponía, Banks no tardó

Expectation works in mysterious ways---and totally unconsciously.

But then, things never turn out the way you think they will.

Talking to a reporter these days was like a deadly chess match; you had to think several steps ahead; you had to imagine all the possible ways a reporter might distort your statement. The atmosphere was relentlessly adversarial.

The future is coming faster than most people realize.

I feel like there's something terrible and wonderful and amazing that's just beyond my grasp. I have dreams about it. I do dream, by the way. It hovers over me at odd moments. And then it's gone. I feel like I'm always on the brink of something that never arrives. I want to either have it or be free of it.

It's the solitude that slays you. Maybe because you'd expected ruin to arrive in a grander and more romantic form.

She pauses several treads from the bottom, listening, waiting; she is again possessed (it seems to be getting worse) by a dream-like feeling, as if she is standing in the wings, about to go onstage and perform in a play for which she is not appropriately dressed, and for which she has not adequately rehearsed.

Clarissa is still sometimes shocked, more than thirty years later to realize that it was happiness; that the entire experience lay in a kiss and a walk. The anticipation of dinner and a book.

It's hardly ever the destination we've been anticipating, is it? Our hopes may seem unrealized, but we were in all likelihood hoping for the wrong thing. Where did we--the species, that is--pick up that strange and perverse habit?

I don't know if I can face this. You know. The party and the ceremony, and then the hour after that, and the hour after that.

Aspettavamo, senza particolare urgenza, di vedere se qualcuno ci avrebbe chiesto un altro tipo d'amore, quello più terrificante e travolgente.

Cassandra wanted the same night over and over again but she believed in some hidden way that if she had the same night enough times it would all crack open, and something better than love would be revealed. Something better than music.