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"What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven."
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"I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise."

"Expectations create and shape reality."

"Weren't you alwaysdistracted by expectation, as if every eventannounced a beloved? (Where can you find a placeto keep her, with all the huge strange thoughts inside yougoing and coming and often staying all night.)"

"That's the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more than that, you think you're entitled to live it. So far, though, it wasn't working out as planned."

"Not the action, but the expectation creates results."

"Live without expectations. Don't set parameters on your life by telling yourself that something can only be enjoyed if it is a certain way. Allow life to surprise you. Keep an open mind and enjoy all of life's treasures."

"Whatever you search for will either meet you halfway or wait for you."

"We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to."

"Expectations hurt, be it sorry, be it thank you."

"Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself."
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"No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.This is all practice."

"A woman calls from Seaview to say her linen closet is missing. Last September, her house had six bedrooms, two linen closets. She's sure of it. Now she's only got one. She comes to open her beach house for the summer. She drives out from the city with the kids and the nanny and the dog, and here they are with all heir luggage, and their towels are gone. Disappeared. Poof. Bermuda triangulated."

"It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we don't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed. Even if it's for sure unexplainable. Even God."

"It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one."

"You have to give up! you have to give up!You have to realize that someday you will die,Until you know that, you are useless!"

"The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems."

"If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?'Clawing at the roof of her coffin."
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