Stories start in all sorts of places. Where they begin often tells the reader of what to expect as they progress. Castles often lead to dragons, country estates to deeds of deepest love (or of hate), and ambiguously presented settings usually lead to equally as ambiguous characters and plot, leaving a reader with an ambiguous feeling of disappointment. That's one of the worst kinds.
Rebecca McKinseyTags: love hate stories ambiguity characters dragons disappointment readers plot castles
Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment?
Kaui Hart HemmingsTags: love disappointment articulate
When you have been just told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to understand how Anarchists must feel when the bomb goes off too soon.
P.G. WodehouseTags: humor marriage jealousy disappointment engagement
I had nothing to fear from my father.
Except his disappointment.
Which was no small thing.
Tags: fear disappointment tather
He looked so profoundly disappointed in me that I wondered for a moment if he was someone I knew.
Michael ChabonTags: disappointment
One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.
Alain de BottonTags: disappointment activity
After some time he felt for his pipe. It was not broken, and that was something. Then he felt for his pouch, and there was some tobacco in it, and that was something more. Then he felt for matches and he could not find any at all, and that shattered his hopes completely.
J.R.R. TolkienTags: disappointment smoking tobacco pipe
To be alive was to be disappointed. You tried and failed and kept on trying, never knowing whether you'd ever get what you wanted. But sometimes we get what we need.
Joan D. VingeTags: disappointment effort
I thought about how stupid it is, that all of us are born destined to desire somebody else, though desire brings with it such disappointment and pain. Humankind's history must be scored bloody with heartbreak. This hankering for affection is a blight upon us.
Sonya HartnettTags: pain history affection disappointment stupid desire heartbreak humankind destined blight
Hope isn't destiny. Left passive its nothing more than disappointment deferred
Bill WillinghamTags: hope disappointment destiny
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