At night the cries of cats making love or fighting, their caterwauling in the dark, told us that the world was pure emotion, flung back and forth among its creatures, the agony of the one-eyed Siamese no different from that of the Lisbon girls, and even the trees plunged in feeling.
Jeffrey EugenidesStichwörter: anticipation anthropology virgin-suicides
I've never met a woman with divine sweetness in her eyes, or a delicacy in her smile that was so glorious, that it made my heart ascend to grace.
Lionel SuggsStichwörter: inspiration beauty anticipation
When the wave, equally suddenly, retreated, it left a void which resembled that of the morning, yet had a character of its own, because though the pattern was repeated it was in reverse order: the scattered schoolchildren who passed my window now were on their way home and there was something unrestrained and boisterous about them, whereas when they had walked past on their way to school in the morning they still bore the silent imprint of sleep and the innate wariness we feel toward things that have not yet begun.
Karl Ove KnausgårdStichwörter: anticipation impressions patterns
After she's gone, another brief lull sets in. This one is probably the last. But what good is a lull? It's only a breathing spell in which to get more frightened. Because anticipatory fear is always twice as strong as present fear. Anticipatory fear has both fears in it at once - the anticipatory one and the one that comes simultaneously with the dread happening itself. Present fear only has the one, because by that time anticipation is over.
("New York Blues")
Stichwörter: fear dread anticipation
Cursing will create a hole in a whole Heart.
Naveed bajiStichwörter: love romance heart sad anticipation
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it, no paper notices on downtown posts and billboards, no mentions or advertisements in local newspapers. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.
Erin MorgensternStichwörter: anticipation beginning
We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive.
Albert CamusStichwörter: true-love chapter anticipation
I wait for this rare and fleeting event because I can't think of anything else worth waiting for.
Peter DavisStichwörter: anticipation
And I see that not touching for so long was a drive to the beach with the windows rolled up so the waves feel that much colder.
Amy HempelStichwörter: love anticipation beach touching
I felt like I was an arrow, pulled back and ready to be launched into something big.
A.B. ShepherdStichwörter: anticipation hopeful life-changing
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