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“Disappointment was never a thing you looked for, but it had a wonderful way of clearing the mind.”
“Then again, I had become a disappointment. It’s easier to find fault with a disappointment.”
“Grouses that go unheard only grow louder, till they reach a level of frustration where they become silent but permanent disappointments.”
“She’d been let down enough times to know not to believe in fairy tales.”
“What do you know about insurance fraud?”I knew discussions of it were not likely to lead to sex.”
“I am beginning to realize, at the ripe old age of twenty-nine, that one of the problems I have in life is a tendency to completely romanticize how things will be in the future, which inevitably lea...”
“The more I see of the ‘hounoured, famed, and great,’ the more I see of the littleness, the unsatisfactoriness of all created good; and that no earthly pleasure can fill up the wants of the immortal...”
“I don't know why, but his reaction disappoints me.”
“Disappointment means that things haven’t worked out the way you wanted! And now what to do? Very simple: Stand up and walk! Cut the tragedy because our limited time must always be used for the forw...”
“Loving someone more than they love you is a sucky thing. But I’m over it.”
“...Mrs. Bostwick's face was heavy and lethargic, without any strength or delicacy, and it bore the deep marks of what must have been a habitual dissatisfaction.”
“How many times would he disappoint you in a day if you were married to him, Ursula wondered?”
“A marriage is a delicate thing, Maggie, a balance of two hearts and two hopes. Sometimes the weight's just too heavy on the one side, and the other can't lift to it.”
“I know how it feels when people look right through you, or worse, see you as something or someone other than what you are.”
“Within a couple of weeks of starting the Ph.D. program, though, she discovered that she'd booked passage on a sinking ship. There aren't any jobs, the other students informed her; the profession's ...”
“...never be disappointing - you may wound me, but you must never be disappointing...”
“The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft a-gley And leave us nought but grief and pain For promised joy.”
