Kate DiCamillo Quotes

Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.

The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.

I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.

Every human being is tried this way in the active service of expectancy. Now comes the fulfillment and relieves him, but soon he is again placed on reconnaissance for expectancy; then he is again relieved, but as long as there is any future for him, he has not yet finished his service. And while human life goes on this way in very diverse expectancy, expecting very different things according to different times and occasions and in different frames of mind, all life is again one nightwatch of expectancy.

It'll be hard, but life moves fast-we'll see each other again. I know that. I can feel that. Just like I can feel how much you care for me and how much I love you

The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow.

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers.

Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word; Well for those who have no fear, Looking seaward well assured That the word the vessel brings Is the word they wish to hear.

Of course you want someone special to love you. A majority of the people who write to me inquire about how they can get the same thing... Unique as every letter is, the point each writer reaches is the same: I want love and I'm afraid I'll never get it. It's hard to answer those letters because I'm an advice columnist, not a fortune-teller. I have words instead of a crystal ball. I can't say when you'll get love or how you'll find it or even promise that you will. I can only say you are worthy of it and that it's never too much to ask for it.

I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what.

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.

A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.

I believe that I am only at a beginning, only knocking at a door, and I believe that the best is yet to come.

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

My favorite memory is Tomorrow. Tomorrow's family moments are what I look forward to every day. No single favorite. Just Tomorrow.

Everyone wants to be loved; everyone wants to know where they're going in life; everyone wants to have a sense of direction and feel the next day is going to be better than today. We just all deal with it in a different way.

Furthermore I will just have to see what the future will bring me. But a change of food whets the appetite.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

And I can't wait to see where the road leads from here.

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

There are people who are able to plan their career, their future, but I've never had any talent for that. I just do things and hope for the best. Say yes, take a chance, and sometimes it's terrific and sometimes it's not.