“Theano: Always expecting the worst, you are.Danae: If you expect terrible things, then they don't surprise you, and all good things are like wonderful gifts.”
“A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect.”
“You cannot expect life to go wonderfully. Terrible things might not be happening now...but they will. Probably to you. Your job is to accept that and live a nice life anyway.”
“We are changed souls; we don't look at things the same way anymore. For there was a time when we expected the worst. But then the worst happened, did it not? And so we will never be surprised again.”
“And the funny thing was if you made the best of it, if you smiled through every storm, the bad things were never as terrible as you expected them to be, and the good things were better than anything you could have wished for yourself.”
“...the thing about lessons: you always learn them when you don't expect them or want them.”