Cecily von Ziegesar Quotes

The suspense is terrible. I hope it'll last.

Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.

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.

Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.

I think something wonderful is going to happen to me. Maybe tomorrow. The phone can ring and your whole life can change.

Those who do not hope cannot wait; but if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

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.

Doing stuff never feels as good as you hope it will feel.

"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.".

Well, it seems like a miracle to be able to look forward-to-to see all the minutes in front of one come hopping along with something marvellous in them, instead of just[Pg 295] saying, Well, that one didn't actually hurt and the next may be quite bearable if only something beastly doesn't come pouncing out--

Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word; Well for those who have no fear, Looking seaward well assured That the word the vessel brings Is the word they wish to hear.

He took her hand and they started walking toward the baggage claim. They didn't say anything to each other. They swung their held hands like little kids, like they believed anything could happen, like they might take off soaring into the air. All the things you wanted to happen could happen. Why not?

Perpetual anticipation is good for the soul but it's bad for the heart.

Waiting and hoping is a hard thing to do when you've already been waiting and hoping for almost as long as you can bear it.

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

I see by your eagerness, and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be in formed of the secret with which I am acquainted. That cannot be.

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.

It's hard to be natural in a scene when you pick up the phone and no one is there.

When you see the setting, wait for the rising. Why worry about a sunset or a fading moon?

She waited for you in a thousand different ways.

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

Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.