“I'm beginning to think that to hope isn't the same as to expect something. To hope is to believe that life is an acceptable chaos.”
“Hoping for something is not the same as expecting it.”
“I've learnt something more. The expectation of a body can last as long as any hope. Like mine expecting yours. As soon as they gave you two life sentences, I stopped believing in their time.”
“Days begin with hopes and end with dreamseveryday starts with some expectation, but surely ends with some experience"...That's life....”
“She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.”
“I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way.”