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Quotes About Arrival

I'm on the verge of tears by the time we arrive at Pastels since I'm positive we won't get seated but the table is good, and relief that is almost tidal in scope washes over me in an awesome wave.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.
~ Dorothy Gilman
So the end may be a long time coming, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a way of sneaking up on you.
~ Julie Powell
I used to spend a lot of time just thinking about myself, thinking that the party started when I showed up.
~ Matthew Perry
I think people involved with institutions find it harder to know the time to go than the time to come.
~ Randall Robinson
After two minutes after this time, and I am already there.
~ Eugene Ormandy
In the landscape of time, there are few locations less comfortable than that of one who waits for some person or event to arrive at some unknown moment in the future.
~ Robert Grudin
Time didn't pass; it tailgated.
~ Spider Robinson
arrived here he was still only a senator.
~ Marian Keyes
She conceived of life as a road down which one traveled, an easy enough road through a broad country, and that one's destination was there from the very beginning, a measured distance away, standing in the ordinary light like some plain house where one went in and was greeted by respectable people and was shown to a room where everything one had ever lost or put aside was gathered together, waiting.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Glory had rehearsed angry outbursts in anticipation of his arrival. She began to hope he would come so she could tell him exactly what she thought.
~ Marilynne Robinson
la llegada de Aureliano Segundo «a la ciudad desconocida donde todas las campanas tocaban a muerto»
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Two: there was no car in the driveway, so the question of how he'd come here without an umbrella yet remained perfectly dry hung in the air, vaguely alarming, like a faint odor of gas.
~ Marisha Pessl
This is the entrance To the city of you...
~ Mark Doty
The next folks to arrive will be the cat-food people. Think about that when you see the 'Discount Sushi' sign.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Outside, the detonation of loudly-slammed taxi doors, suggesting the opening of a cannonade, had died down.
~ Anthony Powell
To arrive was to die a little.
~ Anthony Powell
She so believed it, that on the first morning of her arrival she took a little volume in her pocket, containing Shelley's "Queen Mab," and essayed to go down upon the rocks.
~ Anthony Trollope
reached Plumstead
~ Anthony Trollope
CHAPTER LVII MRS. MORTON RETURNS
~ Anthony Trollope
The newly landed 2nd Infantry
~ Antony Beevor
But all voyages come to an end, either at the shore or at the bottom of the sea
~ Arnold Bennett
Beneath the palm trees Lora waited, watching the sea. Clyde's boat was already visible as a tiny notch on the far horizon
~ Arthur C. Clarke
It was surely well for man that he came late in the order of creation. There
~ Arthur Conan Doyle