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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― P.S. I Love You
― P.S. I Love You
“If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong.”
― Secret Life of Water
― Secret Life of Water
“I’m not totally mad at you. I’m just sad. You’re all locked up in that little world of yours, and when I try knocking on the door, you just sort of look up for a second and go right back inside.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“Do not be disappointed if no one appreciates your true feelings, because they do not deserve them.”
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“At times he felt that he had almost rather not be in love with her, for it brought him no peace. What was the use of it, if it was only going to be painful?”
― Lonesome Dove
― Lonesome Dove
“Don't set your husband up on a pedestal and then cry when you find that he is only an ordinary man, after all.”
― Don'ts for Wives
― Don'ts for Wives
“But we always avoided talking about these things—difficult things—and I wondered if that meant we'd be a little uncomfortable with or disappointed by each other for the rest of our lives.”
― Nobody Is Ever Missing
― Nobody Is Ever Missing
“Imagination envisions what could be. Reality states what is. And when my journey is shaped by one of these at the exclusion of the other, I will eventually wake up on some road facing the ‘reality’ that I’m far more lost than I could have ‘imagined’.”
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“We are never disappointed with people we think little of, those who disappoint us are thus by definition of importance to us.”
― The Sunrise Scrolls: To Life from the Shadows II
― The Sunrise Scrolls: To Life from the Shadows II
“She sat at the little table, her expression like that of a child digesting failed plans.”
― The Fortunate Only
― The Fortunate Only
“To be thankful for one thing is infinitely more powerful than to be bitter about a hundred others.”
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“If we stand for nothing we will likely become nothing and subsequently achieve nothing, for nothing can only breed more of itself.”
― The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey
― The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey
“Don’t think for a moment that there’s nothing to be learned from the people who’ve failed us. For some of the greatest lessons that we’ve been granted are from those who showed us how ‘not’ to do something. And we’d be wise to remember that some of those people are us.”
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“If I’m surprised at where I’m at, it’s probably because I’m not listening to the reality that listening to the voices that I’ve listened to have put me here. So, maybe I should be less surprised and more disappointed.”
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“He would have liked spending a little time with one of the girls himself. Instead, he had to settle for sleeping in a room with a bunch of guys. It was a total sausage fest, he thought.”
― The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
― The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“She could see the destroyed remnants of the George Washington Bridge and kept preparing for the flash and mushroom cloud, but it did not come. In a way, she was slightly disappointed.”
― The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
― The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“he would awake from those dreams with an overpowering sadness and the familiar knowledge that this deprivation could not be alleviated without the risk of further betrayal and the eventual certainty of absolute erasure. Both pains were too extreme to face again. Better, it seemed, just to let his soul die slowly, bit by lonely bit.”
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“Ducane knew that Willy had looked forward to this visit. He knew too that the visit was rendering Willy unspeakably miserable.”
― The Nice and the Good
― The Nice and the Good
“Of course I fear the journey. For if I didn’t, I’d be left with the horribly disappointing sense that it was never big enough. And if there’s something I should fear, that would be it.”
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“There are moments when disappointment comes to seek your soul as musicians do with notes, and the more these are wide and deep, the more a single word or gesture is enough to make music resonate within you that you would never want to hear.”
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“Dia directed her grudge towards that book, which only provided a modest explanation.
For some reason, it was always like that. Things always didn’t work out—
—and here she thought she would finally be able to impress Noin…”
― 長い夜の国と最後の舞踏会 1 ～ひとりぼっちの公爵令嬢と真夜中の精霊～
For some reason, it was always like that. Things always didn’t work out—
—and here she thought she would finally be able to impress Noin…”
― 長い夜の国と最後の舞踏会 1 ～ひとりぼっちの公爵令嬢と真夜中の精霊～
“In the dictionary of those who do not expect anything, there is no expression like ‘shattered expectations.”
― Before You Doubt Yourself: Pep Talks and other Crucial Discussions
― Before You Doubt Yourself: Pep Talks and other Crucial Discussions
“Only you don’t change, Omar. You’re still a wreck. Look at your clothes, your hair…the hour you arrive at home. Now you have no father, you should look for a job and stop with this idle lunacy. Your father couldn’t bear looking at you like this. He couldn’t bear watching your life thrown away.”
― Two Brothers
― Two Brothers
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