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Quotes About Anticipation

you're like a story that hasn't happened yet. Because I want to see what you will do. I want to be part of the unfolding of the tale.
~ Holly Black
Kaye watched as he calmed somewhat, thinking that she should stop trying to anticipate what was going to happen next. After all, when you were already in a slippery place, reality-wise, you couldn't afford to assume things would be straight forward from here on in.
~ Holly Black
You're like a story that hasn't happened yet.
~ Holly Black
You're going to get all the things you think you can't have," she says quietly, reaching out to rub red lipstick from my cheek. "You just don't know it yet.
~ Holly Black
It feels a bit like expecting a proposal of marriage, only to get offered the role of mistress.
~ Holly Black
High King Cardans presence seems to infect the very air I breathe. For a wild moment, I consider turning and getting out of there before he spots me. I dont know if I can do this. I feel a little dizzy. I dont know if I can look at him and not show on my face any of what I am feeling. Page 60
~ Holly Black
I was meant for the purpose of betraying the High Court. Never to survive past that. If I am the cause of Lady Nore's fall, it will give me all the more pleasure for her never having anticipated it.
~ Holly Black
Nice things don't happen in storybooks,'' Taryn says. ''Or when they happen, something bad happens next. Because otherwise the story would be boring, and no one would read it.
~ Holly Black
Eres como una historia que aún no ha sucedido. Quiero comprobar qué harás. Quiero participar en el desarrollo de la narración.
~ Holly Black
He leans in for a kiss and
~ Holly Black
I have had little fun in my life so far. The promise of more is difficult to resist.
~ Holly Black
You sure you brought me here just to talk?' It turns out that having kissed someone, the possibility of kissing hangs over everything, no matter how terrible an idea it was the first time. The memory of his mouth on mine shimmers in the air between us.
~ Holly Black
I am overcome with a feeling of nostalgia for something I haven't yet lost.
~ Holly Black
I didn't think it worked like that. I thought love was supposed to happen when you least expected it, like a sap to the skull.
~ Holly Black
Because you're like a story that hasn't happened yet. Because I want to see what you will do. I want to be part of the unfolding of the tale.
~ Holly Black
Porque eres como una historia que aún no ha sucedido. Porque quiero comprobar qué harás. Quiero participar en el desarrollo de la narración.
~ Holly Black
Anticipation whispers through the trees, like an indrawn breath. Urging me on.
~ Holly Black
En los cuentos no pasan cosas buenas —replica Taryn—. Y si pasan, es porque después va a ocurrir algo malo. De lo contrario, el cuento sería un rollo y nadie querría leerlo.
~ Holly Black
And you think it was sunrise I was waiting for and not my queen.
~ Holly Black
Because you're like a story that hasn't happened yet.
~ Holly Black
Il s'avère qu'après avoir embrassé quelqu'un, la possibilité d'un baiser plane en permanence
~ Holly Black
Espera —dice, acercándose un paso—. Quiero volver a verte. —¿Por qué? —Porque eres como una historia que aún no ha sucedido. Porque quiero comprobar qué haras. Quiero participar en el desarollo de la narración.
~ Holly Black
I am not yet in pain. But I do not doubt that I will be.
~ Holly Black
Fighting was chess, anticipating the move of one's opponent and countering it before one got hit.
~ Holly Black