Jacqueline Carey Quotes

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.

It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.

On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.

Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.

Ten minutes can be a long time when you're waiting with a beating heart for something you don't understand, something you don't really want to know.

The swiftest despatch seems slow to desire.

I wanted to wake you straightaway, but I knew I had to wait several hours to ensure you were safely recovered." "What! How long has it been?" "Five minutes. I got bored.

I hope it won't take long.

For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.

I've been waiting for you forever." "Forever' as in several hundred years, or forever as in since my lesson began?

She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.

In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.

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.

The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone.

Delay is a bitter tonic, but it increases appetite.

I never keep boys waiting. It's a hard trial for a boy to wait.

You don't get everything all at once. You wait.

And he waited. It was only for a few seconds, but it felt like a small forever.

There is nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ... Time, self-pity, apathy, bitterness, and exhaustion can take the Christmas out of the child, but you cannot take the child out of Christmas.