Neal Shusterman Quotes

Instant gratification is not soon enough.

I want it all and I want it now.

I need instant gratification.

It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen ... wonderful things.

I don't know what I want, but I want it NOW!

We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can’t slow down enough to enjoy them when they come.

He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

I could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn't really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything. My nerve endings seemed to have come alive; they almost jangled with anticipation I was going to see Will. Whatever else, I had that. I could almost feel the miles between us shrinking, as if we were at two ends of some invisible elastic thread.

Stick with me, kids. It's about to get so good... -A

"Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne. "You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.' But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.".

Often, the most enjoyable part of an activity is the anticipation.

It's nice to have things to look forward to.

Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne.

I’ll wait for you. Come back. The words were not meaningless, but they didn’t touch him now. It was clear enough - one person waiting for another was like an arithmetical sum, and just as empty of emotion. Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached. Waiting was a heavy word.

You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.

I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.

On the other hand, we worked a year on this and some people are going to watch it in a night and go, "We want more!" And there is something I miss about the longing and the anticipation for the next episode.

I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation.

I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.

When you're really looking forward to something, you don't feel the sense of pressure.

The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting

I have never waited for anything the way I've waited for today, when nothing will happen.

What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait.

Every time I await a model, even when I am most pressed to time, I am overjoyed when the time comes and I tremble when I hear the key turn in the door.