Quotes about Expectation

Today was once the future from which you expected so much in the past.

What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived.

That was our first time together. Interesting, an interesting experience, but not earth-shaking. But then, I never expected it to be earth-shaking, not with him. What I was determined to avoid was emotional entanglement. A passing fling was one thing, an affair of the heart quite another. Of myself I was fairly sure. I was not about to lose my heart to a man about whom I knew next to nothing.

Hand in hand they stroke her womb, watching for it to flicker and blossom. p. 3

Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.

You dont have to know a soul to know what I know --- to expect what I'm expecting --- to feel yourself alive and dying in your chest every minute of the livelong day --- When you're young you wanta cry, when you're old you wanta die. But that's too deep for you now, Ti mon Pousse

Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

The biggest human temptation is... to settle for too little.

Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.

We should not expect to have all the blessings of life and none of its trials. It would make this world too delightful a dwelling place, and I fear we would never care to leave it.

sometimes it's the one thing we've never had, but have wanted for so long, that has the power to disappoint us the most.