Expectations Ruin Relationships Quotes & Sayings

Accidents and sicknesses are accepted as deserved retribution by the person who has feelings of guilt — Sunday Adelaja

I also did an Ozzy piece for him, and so I got hired. Everything happened really fast. I can't give people advice, because everything in my life changed completely in less than a year and it's still not something I am used to. — Chuck Klosterman

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

My son,
Here may indeed be torment, but not death. — Dante Alighieri

As my skin touched his, I saw his face, and I felt electricity shooting through my body. His eyes were the first thing I noticed: They were emerald green with flecks of something I couldn't even describe to myself, and they seemed to be glowing, almost floating in front of his face. There was something about them that seemed almost alien. Was — Danielle Paige

Twitter is the limit of me putting myself out there. — Matthew Lewis

George smiles to himself, with entire self-satisfaction. Yes, I am crazy, he thinks. That is my secret; my strength. — Christopher Isherwood

He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something. — Sue Monk Kidd

Somehow it was harder to show all that emotional stuff to someone you knew. — Jojo Moyes

The iambic line, with its characteristic forward movement from short to long, or light to heavy, or unstressed to stressed, is the quintessential measure of English verse. — James Fenton

Thank God! he said, and kissed her.
Kissing Mairelon was much nicer than anything she had ever dared to imagine, despite the headache. — Patricia C. Wrede

It is not easy for me to speak of the desert. Still less easy is it for me to scribe it as I do. There is so much that might be said; and yet no one who reads this will have understanding of the desert. Not even those who share this ship with me have it. One must go. I say again: one must go. I went. Perhaps there can be too much understanding. I have so much now, and that is why I will never forget this place. My companions understand nothing of that. The whisper of the sands, and the night silence when the sands no longer spoke. — Gene Wolfe

Lucy: A great memory? Really?
Sean: Yes. Really. His memory is faultless. Pristine. Immaculate.
Lucy: That's a shitty compliment. That's like telling a person they don't smell.

Is it odd that this made me laugh? I took gleeful satisfaction in the book-report nature of my compliment.
Ronan is a man. He has very brown hair, and very brown eyes, and a very good memory.

Sean: No specification was made as to the quality of the compliment, only that one was required.
Lucy: You're a filthy cheat. — L. H. Cosway

The best part of the journey is the surprise and wonder along the way. — Ken Poirot