Sharon Creech Quotes

I came to the conclusion that unrealized hopes, even small ones, were always wrenching.

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

Expectations are just disappointments waiting to happen.

To be honest about it, sex was not worth the wait.

The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances when they would have given us extreme pleasure.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

He who awaits much can expect little.

I really am disappointed when I run into people who are angry I'm leaving office.

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

I'm disappointed that success hasn't been a Himalayan feeling.

I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.

Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.

I had a beautiful childhood, so my adulthood has been really frustrating because it's - half the time it hasn't been as good as my childhood.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

I was briefly bitter.

Some people will always be disappointed.

I'm kinda mad that I had to wait 28 years to jump on a skateboard.

I competed at 'WrestleMania 33,' and I'm telling you, leading up to what should have been the biggest moment of my life, I couldn't find an ounce of joy.

Things don't always happen the way one wishes they would.

I'm upset when I miss.

When you can't do what you love all of a sudden because of an uncontrollable situation, it sucks.

I'd lost count of the disappointments.

She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.

There's no disillusionment like learning that forbidden fruit can be unpleasant.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.