Quotes About Anticipation

Maybe we should always assume the worst.

At this rate, we'll never get to the future.

All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.

When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.

In the end, it's never what you worry about that gets you.

The future had a way of breaking your heart if you expected too much.

She kept hoping that something would happen to rescue her from her own small-scale, predictable dreams.

Your whole life, she says, you're searching for disaster—you're auditioning disasters—so you'll be well rehearsed when the ultimate disaster finally arrives.

Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.

We drive west the rest of the night, away from where the sun will come up, trying to outrace it, trying not to see what it's going to show us when we get home.

In a way, being an addict is very proactive. A good addiction takes the guesswork out of death. There is such a thing as planning your getaway.

Jump to another weird sick disappointment just coming over the horizon.

Ev­ery phone call I get fills me with joy and ter­ror since this could be the case­work­er or the killer.

Whatever happened in the world was a decree from God. A task to be completed. Any crying or joy just got in the way of being useful. Any emotion was decadent. Anticipation or regret was a silly extra. A luxury.

We look forward to getting you back.

It feels bad, telling you all this. Spoiling the surprise, I mean. You'll see it all yourself, soon enough. That is, if you live too long. Or if you just give up and go nuts ahead of schedule. My mom, Eva, even you, eventually everybody gets a bracelet.

I try to smile against all the swelling, and I say, look at me. How about next month?

Después de descubrir la cantidad de cosas que pueden salir mal, tu vida ya no se basa tanto en vivir como en esperar.

Tek bir an. Hayattaki kusursuzluktan en çok bunu bekleyebilirdiniz.

Gelecek ne zamandan beri vaat olmaktan ç?k?p tehdit unsuru haline geldi.

That's why we gotta do good things now. Make good decisions. Try to move the rudder long before the boat ever gets near the iceberg, right?

The novel is describing a time in which she felt hope, beauty, elation, joy ,wonder, anticipation-these are things these friends gave to her and this is why they mattered so much. Her rage corresponds to the immensity of what she has lost. It doesn't matter in a way whether all these emotions were the result of real interactions or of fantasy, she experienced them fully. And in losing them, has lost happiness.

My motivation, even in anticipated shame, lay always in others. You can take the woman out of the upstairs, but you can't take the upstairs out of her.

I wanted him to reassure me, and when I saw he wasn't going to, I thought, This is when the shit hits the fan.