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Quotes About Anticipation

She'd expected some backlash; it happened every time she shared her strength. But she hadn't anticipated so much raw anguish from Nico di Angelo… If this was only a portion of Nico's pain… how could he bear it?
~ Rick Riordan
Then, finally , we were ready to charge in and save Sadie, and she rides up in a limousine driven by an ugly dwarf in a swimsuit, and she accuses us of being late. So when she told us the dwarf was driving us to Russia, I was like, Whatever. And I got into the car.
~ Rick Riordan
We, the bones that are here, await yours.
~ Rick Riordan
Everybody loves to show up at the party once all the hard work is done.
~ Rick Riordan
No good news awaits I warned you right at the start Turn away, reader
~ Rick Riordan
We don't have much time. Mel will be out of the restroom soon." "You've got a magician named Mel?
~ Rick Riordan
You need to be prepared to move." "Why?" I sat up and looked out the windshield, straight into a raging sandstorm. "Oh…
~ Rick Riordan
Very well. But I have warned you. In this pages, only suffering awaits.
~ Rick Riordan
reservations
~ Rick Steves
They had been too taken up with each other, grasshoppers enjoying the summer, rather than ants preparing for the winter.
~ Kate Atkinson
let's face it, no one warned you about anything.
~ Kate Atkinson
And sometimes, too, she knew what someone was about to say before they said it or what mundane incident was about to occur—if a dish was about to be dropped or an apple thrown through a glasshouse, as if these things had happened many times before. Words and phrases echoed themselves, strangers seemed like old acquaintances.
~ Kate Atkinson
They're getting your room ready for you.' He was exhausted. He'd taken them shopping in Primark, not that
~ Kate Atkinson
Evan stopped completely. He was staring at her with those intense eyes. Staring right into her. Just like he had in those couple of moments when she had thought for a split second, that he wanted to kiss her.
~ Kate Brian
But she laughed and looked at him with eyes that at once gave him courage to wait and made it torture to wait.
~ Kate Chopin
Step by step she lived over every instant of the time she had been with Robert... She recalled his words, his looks. How few and meager they had been for her hungry heart! ... She wondered when he would come back. He had not said he would come back. She had been with him had heard his voice and touched his hand. But some way he had seemed nearer to her off there in Mexico.
~ Kate Chopin
It was going to be a beautiful morning, I remember thinking, as I left the house; soft and close, bursting with whispered promises, as only a daybreak in early summer can be.
~ Kate Chopin
A vision of the future like some dim, gaunt monster sometimes appalled her, but luckily to-morrow never comes. Mrs.
~ Kate Chopin
Her fancy was running riot along those days ahead of her. Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long.
~ Kate Chopin
Still, she would rather be on the lookout, sharp, overreacting, than to be caught asleep and dull-witted. When the bomb came to rip her apart, she would at least see it coming. She wanted to die on her toes if she had to die at all.
~ Kate Christensen
So many miracles have not yet happened.
~ Kate DiCamillo
But she couldn't help it. She did hope. She was hoping. She had been hoping all along.
~ Kate DiCamillo
you never know what's going to happen next. It keeps you on your toes. That's what Granny says. And it's important to be on your toes because you just never know what might happen next in this world.
~ Kate DiCamillo
All things are possible. When I was a girl in Blundermeecen, the miraculous happened every day. Or every other day. Or every third day. Actually, sometimes it did not happen at all, even on the third day. But still, we expected it. You see what I'm saying? Even when it didn't happen, we were expecting it. We knew the miraculous would come.
~ Kate DiCamillo