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"If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations."
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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."
"When we set expectations and nourish them with appreciation, we will get better results."
"The undertone of miracle focused gospel is that people will want to get something from nothing."
"Expectation creates the 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.)"
"Expect nothing but be ready for everything."
"Expectations hurt, be it sorry, be it thank you."
"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."
"We call bad one who rejects the fruit he is given for the fruit he is expecting or the fruit he was given last time."
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"My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life."
"Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice."
"Courage comes in different forms. There's strength--that's the muscle. But love's the heart. When you put them together, you can do anything."
"He hated this feeling of free-floating, just drifting from place to place, thought to thought, without any sense of anchor or root."
"Why do we go to all this trouble' Parker asked. 'Men don't notice anyway.''Because what we wear affects how we feel, how we act, how we move. And that they do notice. Especially the move. Get dressed, smoke the eyes. You'll know you look good so you'll feel good. You'll have a better time."
"I am what I am and I can't change it. I know how to cope and how to get by. I don't want or expect anyone to stand with me. I don't need anyone to. I've learned to accept my life just the way it is, and I don't give a damn if you or anyone else doesn't."
"She sighed once, wishing she had a talent for the details of telling stories. She wasn't bad at themes, she mused, but she could never figure out how to turn a theme into an engaging tale. So she read instead, and admired those who could."
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