“What am I looking for? A knight? No, knights are all polished and shiny. I think my taste runs to something with a bit of tarnish and maybe a few scratches. Someone who can make me laugh and cry and make me angry and make my knees tremble when he touches me.”— Nora Roberts, amazon.com
“The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.”— Michael J Fox, amazon.com
“My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.”— Michael J Fox, books.google.com
“What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“I am drawn to stories where people can tell me what happened when everything fell apart. And not so much that their life became a total wreck, but how life unfolded and did not match up with their expectations.”— Anna Sale, thetimbre.com
“The conclusion we drew from this convinced us that it was best to do everything on purpose, deliberately, so that you would know what to expect.”— Elena Ferrante, amazon.com
“We want something that’s very passionate, or boiling, from the get-go. In the past, people weren’t looking for something boiling; they just needed some water. Once they found it and committed to a life together, they did their best to heat things up. Now, if things aren’t boiling, committing to marr…”— Aziz Ansari, amazon.com
“She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.”— Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald, gaslight.mtroyal.ab.ca
“Why does everybody expect of me what no one expects of anyone else? Why must I endure what no one endures and accept burdens that no one could carry?”— Albert Camus, amazon.com