Quotes About Anticipation

You know how it is when you're walking up the stairs, and you get to the top, and you think there's one more step? I'm like that all the time.

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

I plan to be spontaneous tomorrow.

You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.

She could sense something creeping towards her home, shrouded in thunder, carried by it.

Poor Vicretia was pale as a forest flower, trembling uncontrallably. Yet even in her fear there was anticipation, excitement.

Daniel was coming to him. Whatever else these people thought or felt was irrelevant.

I always knew we would be reunited one day, but I thought I would have to search long and hard to find you, perhaps even wake you from a tomb.

The feeling was to be savoured, but not indulged just yet.

Verity found, much to her own annoyance, that she was looking forward to the dinner party.

The air around them shimmered with a sense of immenence.

Ays felt sure the man would swing across to them soon. What would he say? In his heart, Ays prepared himself, scripted questions. Was it you at the wind orchestra, you in the shadows of this morning? Why? What do you want of me? He longed to hear the answer, feeling it would somehow open his perceptions for more than the strongest dose of hela ever would.

She could smell the perfume of his own body beneath that of the aftershave: a scent of corn and ozone. It was unbearable. She made a promise to herself that she would have him, eventually. She could not stand it if she didn't.

The empress was a dark flower herself, dressed not in red, as all the other women, but resplendent in a gold so muted, it seemed almost black. Varencienne wondered if any emotion surged through Tatrini's closed heart. Was she thinking of her own wedding day, all those years before, when her husband had been only a prince and the empire a smaller collection of lands? Had she been happy then, dizzy with girlish anticipation, or had she felt as Varencienne did now: resigned and cold?

To Finnigin, it was as if he was about to take part in a celebration for the clamour of the bells made him feel as if something amazing was about to happen.

We do not know the future, but we can work toward the best possible outcome.

I felt like they were loitering around in the hope one of us would sup from them later. Perhaps we would find it difficult to leave until we had obliged them.

I want to make a difference, Shan thought, but not yet. I'm not ready.

I don't have a feeling of doom, just impendence.

He felt as if all the clocks in the world stopped at that moment. Would Daniel dare not come to him?

Othman watched Owen through slitted eyes, waiting for him to manifest some physical effect from the haoma that Emma had put in his coffee. Lily was chattering brightly, but her words were nothing more than a chirruping nonsense that flapped around Othman's senses. He wanted Owen. He needed him.

Breathless with anticipation, I let Livvy drap me in her cloths, giddy from the dabs of sharp scent behind my ears.

At last! She would see the face of Resenence Jeopardy. She would look into his eyes, and they would be open for her. Something momentous would happen, the reason for her journey, her commitment to the idea of an unknown man would be revealed to her.

There was a tiny seed of feeling within Emma whispering that Lily might spring some surprises of her own.