Stephenie Meyer Quotes

I can't make everybody happy.

You know you can't satisfy anybody.

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

I hate not giving the people what they want.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

After you get what you want you don't want it.

The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

I won't please everybody every minute of the day.

Sometimes it seemed like it was never good enough, no matter what I did.

It's hard to please everyone, and I learnt quite early that that's never going to happen.

If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.

Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.

Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.

What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.

I never promised you a rose garden.

I'm not always going to keep waiting for a fairytale ending.

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

I've also learned that sometimes, no matter how much you want things to work, you have to accept that sometimes they just don't.

When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.

There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying.

Few things can make us feel crazier than expecting something from someone who has nothing to give.

But here's the thing: I had this great job, and I would still feel terribly depressed. I would just be like, 'This isn't the sweet spot. I thought this would be it, and I don't feel happy.'

Don't you always feel bad when they take away one of the spoons? It's like you ordered wrong.