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• It isn't deep," the Eddisian Ambassador said from the other side of the bed. He was leaning over the wound, looking critical and mildly disappointed. Eugenides didn't miss a beat. "It is...too...deep!" he insisted, outraged.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Missing, Bed, Ambassadors

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• Clary closed her eyes. Remembering the way Jace had looked at her the night she'd freed Ithuriel, she couldn't help but imagine the way he'd look at her now if he saw her trying to lie down to die on the sand beside him. He wouldn't be touched, wouldn't think it was a beautiful gesture. He'd be angry at her for giving up. He'd be so--disappointed.

  Cassandra Clare

  Beautiful, Giving Up, Lying

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “City of Glass”, p.489, Simon and Schuster

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• Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.

  Iris Murdoch

  Holiday, World, Frailty

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Bell”, p.77, Penguin

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• Raisa felt relieved, yet oddly disappointed. She was the blooded princess heir, yet in servants' clothes she was apparently unrecognizable. In the stories, rulers had a natural presence about them that identified them as such, even dressed in rags. What's the nature of royalty, she wondered. Is it like a gown you put on that disappears when you take it off? Does anyone look beyond the finery? Could anyone in the queendom take her place, given the right accessories? If so, it was contrary to everything she'd ever been taught about bloodlines.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Princess, Clothes, Rags

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• I'm not sure what I am anymore... Sometimes I think I'm nothing but what other people have done to me―a big collection of brainwashing, surgeries, and cures... That, and all the mistakes I've made. All the people I've disappointed.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Mistake, Thinking, People

  Scott Westerfeld (2008). “Specials”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• He tried to give his wife pleasure in little ways, because he had come to realize, after nearly two decades together, how often he disappointed her in the big things. It was never intentional. They simply had very different notions of what ought to take up most space in life.

  J. K. Rowling

  Two, Space, Wife

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• They’re going to ask what you said. And if I tell Mr. Twindell you said heaven will be like this, he’ll be very disappointed. He’s counting, you know, on gold streets and angels and horses with wings.” “I see where that could be a problem,” Ian agreed, and he tenderly laid his hand against his son’s cheek. “In that case, you can tell him I said this is almost heaven.

  Judith McNaught

  Horse, Angel, Son

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• All night my heart makes its way however it can over the rough ground of uncertainties, but only until night meets and then is overwhelmed by morning, the light deepening, the wind easing and just waiting, as I too wait (and when have I ever been disappointed?) for redbird to sing

  Mary Oliver

  Morning, Heart, Night

  FaceBook post by Mary Oliver from Apr 22, 2015

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• Theodor Geisel (otherwise known as Dr. Seuss) spent his workdays ensconced in his private studio, the walls lined with sketches and drawings, in a bell-tower outside his La Jolla, California, house. Geisel was a much more quiet man than his jocular rhymes suggest. He rarely ventured out in public to meet his young readership, fretting that kids would expect a merry, outspoken, Cat in the Hat–like figure, and would be disappointed with his reserved personality. “In mass, [children] terrify me,” he admitted.

  Susan Cain

  Children, Wall, Cat

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.86, Broadway Books

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• They were so in love with the world, and so disappointed in every aspect of it.

  Dave Eggers

  World, Aspect

  Dave Eggers (2012). “A Hologram for the King”, p.250, Vintage

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• [M]ost people go through life a wee bit disappointed in themselves. I think we all keep a memory of a moment when we missed someone or something, when we could have gone down another path, a happier or better or just a different path. Just because they're in the past doesn't mean you can't treasure the possibilities ... maybe we put down a marker for another time. And now's the time. Now we can do whatever we want to do.

  James Robertson

  Memories, Mean, Thinking

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• Life can be so good if you let it. But you must trade with life. You give something and you get something, then you give something of yourself again and you receive something again. Life goes bad when people try to take from it without giving. Then they came away empty-handed, and they grab harder and more often, growing more disappointed and disillusioned each time.

  Judith McNaught

  People, Giving, Trying

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• If you expect the worst, you'll never be disappointed.

  Sarah Dessen

  Expect Nothing, Worst, Ifs

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.206, Penguin

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• Materialism is in fact no protection. Those who seek it in that hope (they are not a negligible class) will be disappointed. The thing you fear is impossible. Well and good. Can you therefore cease to fear it? Not here and now. And what then? If you must see ghosts, it is better not to disbelieve in them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Class, Facts, Impossible

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “That Hideous Strength”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• There was a species of middle pretty who smiled at everything: happy smile, disappointed smile, you're-in-trouble smile.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Trouble, Middle, Happy Smile

  Scott Westerfeld (2010). “Pretties”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, ‘No, I’m not interested.’ I believe that each reader creates his own film inside his head, gives faces to the characters, constructs every scene, hears the voices, smells the smells. And that is why, whenever a reader goes to see a film based on a novel that he likes, he leaves feeling disappointed, saying: ‘the book is so much better than the film.

  Paulo Coelho

  Believe, Book, Character

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• What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.

  Mark Twain

  Father, Men, Monkeys

  Mark Twain (1940). “Mark Twain in eruption: hitherto unpublished pages about men and events”, Harper & Brothers

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• Like jilted and disappointed lovers, some of my students just want to be left alone.

  Kirsten Olson

  Learning, Want, Jilted

  Kirsten Olson (2015). “Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture”, p.67, Teachers College Press

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• If you don't love another living soul, then you'll never be disappointed.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Soul, Ifs

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• I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.

  John Ortberg

  Done, Nagging, Should

  John Ortberg (2009). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.16, Zondervan

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• He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed. He who considers himself the servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self-expression. He who seeks self-expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance.

  Moshe Safdie

  Motivation, Fall, Inspiration

  Moshe Safdie (2009). “Moshe Safdie: Volume 1”, p.11, Images Publishing

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• Own the room. Confidence has nothing to do with what you look like. If you obsess over that, you'll end up being disappointed in yourself all the time. Instead, high self-esteem comes from how you feel in any moment. So walk into a room acting like you're in charge, and spend your energy on making the people around you happy. Giving confidence to others will come back to you and you'll end up feeling better about yourself.

  Marian Seldes

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Feel Better

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• I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Travel, Disappointment, Taken

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.7, University of Chicago Press

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• Advisers who think that they are very clever while all around them are a bit thick, and that all the problems of the world would be solved if the thick listened to the clever, are liable to be disappointed.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Clever, Thinking, Would Be

  "Experts and experimental government" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2013.

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• You shouldn't be afraid of failure - when something fails, you think, 'What did I learn from that experience? I can do better next time.' Then kill that project and move on to the next. Don't get disappointed.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Moving, Thinking, Next

  "What I've Learned, By Skype's Niklas Zennstrom" by David Rowan, www.wired.com. November 06, 2010.

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