Quotes About Anticipation

graduated as I turned twenty, and then realized that the world and I were not ready for each other.

A manilla envelope came through the mail slot a few weeks later. I had a little queasiness about meeting that teenager directly, and so I waited several years to open it.

She's smiling that smile they smile before they grow bosoms.

Well, I could have predicted that something like this was going to happen. You can't go anywhere with Mama without things getting nuts. If it's going along too smooth she will invent something just to stir things up. Sometimes we'll be downtown

I always went to bed like someone getting ready for a long trip: books, pills, glasses of water, clocks, a light, pencils, notebooks. To go to bed and switch off the light has been for me to submit to a totally unknown world, full of delicious as well as sinister promises.

Vivre les malheurs à l'avance, c'est les subir deux fois.

Vivre les malheurs d'avance, c'est les subir deux fois. Le moment présent était un moment de joie, il ne fallait pas l'empoisonner.

He knows that when she passes, a grief will rip through him unlike anything he has ever known. Preparing for it doesn't help. He just knows it will come. It is like realizing you are sailing a boat across an ocean and soon you will find the other shore- it will be just you and acres of dry, blinding white sand. There may be trees on that island, and sun, and food, but none of it will feel or taste right, because you will stand there and realize: I am alone.

But sometimes waiting can be murder…

morning, it would only be a matter of time before she sidled up and kissed him again. Then Sam would

Porque Kafka descubre un nuevo modo de leer: la literatura le da forma a la experiencia vivida, la constituye como tal y la anticipa.

I don't know what I'd been expecting. You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.

Rain before sunset and we'll be in shelter.

How was one to foresee and guard against everything?

You're trying to eat grass that isn't there. Why don't you give it a chance to grow?

don't you think between here and now we will see each other once or twice?

The heart is something else. Nobody knows what's going to happen,' I said

Put the coffee on, bubbles, I'm coming home

It seemed like years before I picked a bouquet of kisses off her mouth and put them into a dawn-colored vase in my heart. But the wait was worth it. Because I was in love.

But, alas, nobody anticipated the United States Department of Homeland Security.

He waited for death as a traveller for a bus.

She understood perfectly that when the object of anticipation becomes paramount, trouble begins to lurk like a panther.

And there is no nicer time on earth than now—everything in the offing, nothing gone wrong, all potential—the very polar opposite of how I felt driving home the other night, when everything was on the skids and nothing within a thousand kilometers worth anticipating. This is really all life is worth, when you come down to it.

there is mystery everywhere, even in a vulgar, urine-scented, suburban depot such as this. You have only to let yourself in for it. You can never know what's coming next. Always there is the chance it will be—miraculous to say—something you want.