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Quotes About Anticipation

For it was then that I felt the first healthy flush of anticipation, for the many interesting experiences I know these days ahead hold in store for me.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
He put his life on hold as he waited for his life to begin.
~ Keith Donohue
You'd expect that as much as a samurai would expect a kick in the balls.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Tell me when you want to pick it up again. Tell me when Satan starts a snowball fight. I'll do that. Lunch?
~ Kelley Armstrong
If a bird flies straight at you, prepare for a bad day.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Was it okay? he asked. I smiled. Better than okay. So I won my pass to date two? You did. Good His face lowered toward mine and I knew what was coming. I knew it. But when his lips touched mine, I still jumped. S-sorry, I—I Skittish as a cat, he murmured.
~ Kelley Armstrong
switchblade, he snapped it open, then waited
~ Kelley Armstrong
And then it will rain.
~ Kelley Armstrong
I went out the side door. Looked around. Circled the building. Nothing. I took a deep breath and walked to the road, shoulders up, gaze forward, tensing for the first shout. Or the first shot.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Corey--who'd been walking ahead with Sam--let out a whistle. He gestured to a tractor trailer, pulling out of what looked like a parking lot. We jogged up to Corey and Sam. "Please don't be closed for the season," Corey murmured as we picked up speed. "Please don't be staffed by witches and demons, lying in wait for us. Please, please, please, just give us a break.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Hildy has resigned herself to this, that life is a series of sudden disappearences, leavetakings without the proper good-byes. Someday she too might vanish. Some days she looks forward to learning this trick.
~ Kelly Link
Happiness! Misery! If you were one, bet on it the other was on the way.
~ Kelly Link
Our eyes are always blind when they view the future.
~ Kelly Link
has been afraid of all of these things at one time or another. Ever since he went to prison, he's realized that he doesn't have to be afraid. All he has to do is come up with a plan. Be prepared. It's just like the Boy Scouts, except you have to be even more prepared. You have to prepare for everything that the Boy Scouts didn't prepare you for, which is pretty much everything.
~ Kelly Link
Roberts knocked, heard: 'Enter.' Thought: 'Wanker.
~ Ken Bruen
It was an odd thing to do, to stand in a street in the hope of seeing someone who hardly knew him, but he did not want to move.
~ Ken Follett
Edgar's family believed in plans. His father had often said that you had to build the entire boat in your imagination before picking up the first piece of timber.
~ Ken Follett
thought dismally. No doubt a more modest future awaited him.
~ Ken Follett
para que esculpiera por anticipado piedras
~ Ken Follett
Me alegra prever los problemas, porque así soy capaz de abordarlos. El verdadero peligro son las sorpresas.
~ Ken Follett
Life was empty but for the two hours she spent with Lloyd each evening. The rest of the day was anticipation; the night was recollection. Lloyd
~ Ken Follett
Caris said: "One never knows what the future may hold.
~ Ken Follett
His father had often said that you had to build the entire boat in your imagination before picking up the first piece of timber.
~ Ken Follett
Gwenda sat with her back against a hornbeam tree and studied Wulfric and Annet with the fascination of a condemned man watching the carpenter build the gallows.
~ Ken Follett