Quotes About Anticipation

So when I said I'd miss him, I meant I would miss what we had not experienced, and I don't know what that's called: nostalgia for what didn't happen.

expectations are dangerous when they are both high and unformed.

The most sumptuous experience of ingestion is in-between: remembering the last bite and looking forward to the next one.

I wondered why people ever tried to accomplish anything when attainment of every sort was inbuilt with the forlorn 'Well so-- what's next?

The future is just the ultimate monster in the closet, the great unknown

You always imagine you'll savor these icon-cum-nemeses' undoing. You're always wrong.

Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed.

There is nothing more nerve-wracking than being inches from a lifelong goal.

And you couldn't be anywhere at all without having been almost there for a while.

I wondered what getting an A would feel like. The best feeling in the world, probably. Like going to a Yankees game with your dad and eating three hot dogs with extra everything.

I'm looking forward to talking to Bill Parcells, too, and to seeing how that marriage with Jerry Jones goes.

Five minutes ago her joys in life had been small, anticipated, longed-for, hard-earned and saved-up-for, inconsequential little splurges that meant nothing in the scheme of things but gave the flat surface of her life enough sparkles to make it worth getting out of bed every morning to go and do a job which she liked but didn't love.

May was like the Friday night of summer:

Ellie's mum always said that May was like the Friday night of summer: all the good times lying ahead of you, bright and shiny and waiting to be lived.

Another drawn-out silence follows and Tallulah waits. Waits to be hit, waits to be screamed at, waits for the anger that exists so close to the tight seams of Zach's psyche finally to burst through.

think we're almost there," she said. "Think yellow," she added with an exaggerated wink. The boys let

I had to wait for someone special. Someone who would make my heart feel as if it's been trampled by elephants, thrown into the amazon, and eaten by piranhas.

Evie," he whispered, "you're so warm, so lovely…oh, hell. I've got two months, thirteen days and six hours before I can take you to my bed. Little she-devil. This is going to be the death of me.

I guess I thought the strength of my wanting would be enough to make him appear.

We may run into Kevin," Lucy said gloomily. "She's hoping to run into Kevin," Zoë assured her. Justine smiled grimly. "Preferably with my car.

I wondered how much of me would be left after tomorrow.

I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow.

There's never been a Van Morrison album that I haven't immediately listened to, whether with delight or crushing disappointment.

All the things people hate about touring, I'm excited for, because I've never done it before. I'm excited to see places I've never seen and be in the van and see if I get carsick while reading.