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“The history of the failure of war can almost be summed up in two words: too late.”
“To be intuitive is to possess a godly characteristic: to be bad at second-guessing the good.”
“The moment seemed endless, but it was probably only half that.”
“It was an image Melody would never forget. Or was it the emotions the image conjured - hope, excitement, and fear of the unknown, all three tightly braided together, creating a fourth emotion that ...”
“He took the necklace out of the box and carefully fastened it around her neck. Just like he'd imagined himself doing when he bought it. That might even be why he bought it - so he'd have this momen...”
“Best, perhaps to keep one's nickels forever in one's pockets, to savor delicious possibility over mundane experience.”
“I wish to go down under the watersthe cool, crystalline waters that I knew, where allthat is, here, existing, isis only to be lost within the susurrationsand the rumours of water and the evening st...”
“Cursing will create a hole in a whole Heart.”
“I never assume anything. I anticipate the possibilities and allow my imagination to create the future.”
“There is a lot I could have anticipated but I live in present & there is no anticipation to it, I wish I had a time machine”
“The thing about stereotyping is it's usually just throwing rocks into a crowd hoping to hit somebody who deserves it.”
“Sometimes what we lack is the thrill of anticipation or the delay of gratification. We enjoy things far more when we've really desired them but had to wait for them. The real value is found in our ...”
“The best is always worth waiting for. And once you taste it, no other taste will do.”
“The intensity of the love of the upright is not so much to be judged by what it appears as by what the upright long for. It is our daily lament that we cannot love enough.”
“Some part of me can't wait to see what life's going to come up with next! Anticipation without the usual anxiety. And underneath it all is the feeling that we both belong here, just as we are, righ...”
“Her fingertips reached to trace the damage, but he grasped her hand with his own. He leaned down, far enough that the dark ends of his hair brushed feather-light against her face, caught in her las...”
“Suddenly, I was just sure he was going to kiss me. He was there, I could feel his breath, the ground solid beneath us. But then something crossed his face, a thought, a hesitation, and he shifted s...”
“... We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive.”
“Ironically, just when she needed to get as much sleep as possible to prepare her for the next few days, her excited anticipation kept her awake long into the night.”
“I love clean sheets. It's the simultaneous reminiscence of how they got dirtied to begin with, and hopeful anticipation of what stories they will live to tell next time you are standing fatefully i...”
