Richelle Mead Quotes

You try not to pay too much attention to the hype before the game, because you never know what's going to happen.

One of the best lessons I've ever gotten in my life is to anticipate nothing because it's always worse in your head than it really is.

Everyone was thinking it was going to be a bust. I felt redeemed.

And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.

I had my idea of what the series finale of 'King of the Hill' would be, but that's not what the actual series finale was.

What you think is going to be a big break or opportunity can sometimes turn into the opposite, and vice versa.

Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of nice, and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be.

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't.

I had been told by so many people that I was going to be nominated, that I should be nominated, that there wasn't any question about my being nominated. I don't think it was a surprise.

I had a feeling there would be mixed reactions.

I didn't expect anything crazy to happen from 'True Detective.'

Most of the time, I don't want to use anti-climatic, but sometimes you go out there thinking this is going to be the worst thing you've ever gotten yourself into, and then you get back to base and think, 'Wow, that wasn't anything like I expected.'

He missed that, too, and it hadn't even happened.

You see. No shock. No engulfment. No tearing assunder. What you feared would come like an explosion is like a whisper. What you thought was the end is the beginning.

The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.

I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.

Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.

I expect a cigar.....not lit, hopefully

At first we hope too much and later on, not enough.

Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise. Become a stranger to need of pity. Or if compassion be freely given out, take only enough. Stop short of the urge to plead, then purge away the need. Wish for nothing larger than your own small heart or greater than a star. Tame wild disappointment with caress, unmoved and cold. Make of it a parka for your soul. Discover the reason why so tiny human midget exists at all, so scared and so unwise. But expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.

When you choose a show you really don't know where it's going to go. Sometimes things let you down and sometimes things just surprise you and fulfill you way more than you thought.

Wait. This was the first lesson I had learned about love. The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways -- and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection.

However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.