“I just don't think I love her as much as I'm meant to love her.”— Liz Doran, Thomas Ward, Josh Thomas, Josh, Josh Thomas, imdb.com
“Sometimes people like to paint a rosy color on things when the truth isn't really very pretty.”— Dan Dietz, Dee Dee Blanchard, Patricia Arquette, imdb.com
“I'm just not good enough at this process to expect success all the time.”— Alexander Rosenberg, imdb.com
“[singing] Winds in the east, mist coming in. / Like somethin' is brewin' and 'bout to begin. / Can't put me finger on what lies in store, / But I feel what's to happen all happened before.”— Bill Walsh, Don DaGradi, Bert/Mr. Dawes, Sr., Dick Van Dyke, imdb.com
“Optimism for me isn't a passive expectation that things will get better; it's a conviction that we can make things better – that whatever suffering we see, no matter how bad it is, we can help people if we don't lose hope and we don't look away.”— Melinda Gates, news.stanford.edu
“Overconfidence is a failure of imagination. Imagine an alternative to your expectation, and your judgment improves.”— Adam Grant, twitter.com
“You’re a coward with a lion’s roar. I was wrong, so wrong about you.”— Sade Andria Zabala, sadeandriazabala.com
“People think first love is sweet, and never sweeter than when that first bond snaps… Yet that first broken heart is always the most painful, the slowest to mend, and leaves the most visible scar. What’s so sweet about that?”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“The universe, I’d learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back.”— Cheryl Strayed, thefloralbookcase.wordpress.com
“You told me my hands were soft because you had no idea what they’d touched.”— Camryn Prince, thelovejournals.com
“He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.”— Robert Jordan, amazon.com
“Even if you know what’s coming, you’re never prepared for how it feels.”— Natalie Standiford, amazon.com
“If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.”— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com
“Sometimes, when we want something so badly, we fear failure more than we fear being without that thing.”— Matthew J. Kirby, amazon.com
“I have so much to say to you that I am afraid I shall tell you nothing.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com