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"If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations."
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"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."
"Through our expectations, we violently expand and try to fill the world with our proofs of worth."
"Not the action, but the expectation creates results."
"The undertone of miracle focused gospel is that people will want to get something from nothing."
"Expectation creates the reality."
"Expectations create and shape reality."
"We never live; we are always in the expectation of living."
"In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation."
"We all participate in weaving the social fabric; we should therefore all participate in patching the fabric when it develops holes mismatches between old expectations and current realities."
"I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion."
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"Excuse me? Tonight you represent every dateless woman in this city, every woman who's about to sit down to a lonely meal of Weight Watchers past primavera she's just nuked in the microwave. Every woman who will get into bed tonight with a book or reruns of Sex and the City as her only companion. You are our shining hope....But no pressure."
"I've gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time I've spent with them."
"I can't believe what a state I got myself into over this. Everyone was right. They said it would just happen, and it did. I guess the best things do."
"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 was tough in the best sense of the word. She'd taken blows, the disappointments, and had worked her way through them. Some people, he knew, would have buckled under, found a clutch, or given up. But she had carved a place for herself and made it work."
"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."
"Words have magic. Spells and curses. Some of them, the best of them, once said change everything."
"She pressed her mouth to his throat, his shoulder, would have absorbed him into her skin if she'd known a way."
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