#waiting

...of all the hardships a person had to face none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#waiting #punishment

I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing? ↗

— Anne Tyler

#asked #came #child #found #i

Was I asleep? Had I slept? ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#dream #reality #sleep #waiting #dreams

He tried to tell me week after week to accept things as they were and move on with my life. But if there was one man who had put his life on hold to wait for something or someone, it was him. ↗

— Cecelia Ahern

#love #missing #waiting #friendship

The next visit I paid to Nancy Brown was in the second week in March: for, though I had many spare minutes during the day, I seldom could look upon an hour as entirely my own; since, when everything was left to the caprices of Miss Matilda and her sister, there could be no order or regularity. Whatever occupation I chose, when not actually busied about them or their concerns, I had, as it were, to keep my loins girded, my shoes on my feet, and my staff in my hand; for not to be immediately forthcoming when called for, was regarded as a grave and inexcusable offence: not only by my pupils and their mother, but by the very servant, who came in breathless haste to call me, exclaiming 'You're to go to the school-room directly, mum- the young ladies is WAITING!!' Climax of horror! actually waiting for their governess!!! ↗

— Anne Brontë

#time #waiting #business

❝ IF I WAS THE SAME PERSON WHEN OTHERS WEREN’T LOOKING AS I WAS WHEN THEY WERE. I DIDN’T KNOW WHO I WAS WHEN THEY WERE LOOKING. ❞ ↗

— Shey Stahl

#shey-stahl #waiting-for-you #inspirational

One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#life

I'm hungry for a juicy life. I lean out my window at night and I can taste it out there, just waiting for me. ↗

— Brigid Lowry

#life #night #rosie #taste #waiting

I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands. ↗

— Mary Stewart

#nine-coaches-waiting #ruin #self-destruction #love

I thought I've waited for love so long until you came, I didn't knew it was just the beginning to wait for it to come true! ↗

— Gina Marie G.

#waiting #love