Kelley Armstrong Quotes

Instant gratification takes too long.

It has felt like the World Cup was never going to come for me.

Waiting is a dry desert between where we are and where we want to be. (Finding My Way Home)

Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want

We didnt come all this way for no two seats when all of us is tired.

I knew you'd come,Claire.I knew you would.Dear God,you took your time.

To be excited is still to be unsatisfied.

At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.

Life is like walking along a crowded street--there always seem to be fewer obstacles to getting along on the opposite pavement--and yet, if one crosses over, matters are rarely mended.

I teach how to fit into a world I don't want to live in. I just can't do it anymore.

How long could we do this before you started bitching?" Simon said as we turned down another street of apartment buildings. "What?" "We've been walking for two days now, and you haven't complained once. It's damned annoying, you know." I looked at him. "If you don't complain, then I can't complain. Not without sounding like a whiny little snot.

Ponce de Leon, who said when he discovered the Fountain of Youth, Where the hell are the paper cups? Never got a dinner!

Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.

Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.

Four inch nails is more like it!

He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it; he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently thinks the success when it comes is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it.

One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.

I want my Canada back!

Remember, frustration is out of expectation, and ego is always expecting. The ego is a beggar.

Anger is really disappointed hope.

On one hand it's very flattering to be compared to a big success, and then sometimes it's very frustrating because you want people to see the movie that you're making and not be continually comparing it to something that it's not. So it goes both ways.

I was all braced for the wrath that was going to put grizzlies to shame, and this is what I get? I should infuriate you more often.

You have delighted us long enough.

What about books? Well, precisely because you have denied it in every other field, you believe you may still grant yourself legitimately this youthful pleasure of expectation in a carefully circumscribed area like the field of books, where you can be lucky or unlucky, but the risk of disappointment isn't serious.

Who waiteth for dead man's shoes will go long barefoot.