Ann Patchett Quotes

Sometimes your dreams come true, and it's a real drag.

When I won the Super Bowl I thought I was going to be, like, extremely happy. But then I really just felt like, 'Well, this is it?' I felt like I got bamboozled.

You climb to the summit and there is nothing there.

And that was it. All this buildup to a great leap, and I didn't fall or fly. Instead I found myself back on the edge of the cliff, blinking, wondering if I'd ever jumped at all. It's not supposed to be like this.

I hate meeting my favorite bands because then it just ruins it.

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

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.

I have heard talk and talk, but nothing is done.

Some people will always be disappointed.

There is so much heartbreak and letdown in this industry. You get your heart set on something, and then you're sitting by the phone for three weeks and it never rings.

It's so disappointing to put in your best, hard work and then find the film flopping at the box office for no fault of yours.

When you romanticize something so extraordinarily in the hopes that it will divert you from agony, you're destined for a letdown.

Nothing is worse than having your dreams come true.

I absolutely feel that Rage failed.

I have stopped expecting from films. What I expect never happens.

What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?

The longer an event is anticipated-a milestone birthday, an eclipse, a new millennium-the more likely it is to be an anti-climax.

God, how that stings! I've spent a lifetime loving science fiction and now I find that you must expect nothing of something that's just science fiction.

Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.

It's like thinking you're going to heaven, but when you get there it turns out to be Cleveland.

We came to the end, we found nothing. Nothing!!! And we cursed because we were hoping for so much less.

The loneliest moment in life is when you have just experienced that which you thought would deliver the ultimate, and it has just let you down.

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.