I Never Expected You Quotes

#1. I never expected you to love me, I didn't see any reason that you should, I never thought myself very lovable.

W. Somerset Maugham

#2. I wanted to break you. I never expected you to like it.

A. Zavarelli

#3. Callan took a deep breath. "I never expected you." He shook his head with an edge of amusement. "You are a dangerous woman, Merinus Tyler."
"Naw, just a determined woman." She grinned against his shoulder. "I know a good thing when I see it jacking off.

Lora Leigh

#4. I came here looking to finish school quietly. Stay out of trouble. Maybe write some new songs. I never expected you.

Anonymous

#5. I never expected her. Sometimes people sneak up on you and suddenly you don't know how you ever lived without them. How you went about your day and hung out with your friends and fucked other people without having this one important person in your life." Garrett Graham

Elle Kennedy

#6. You work so hard at something to make sure that it's very pure and very genuine and very steadfast to who you are, so creative control for me is a big one. Thankfully, I've been able to retain 98% of it which I never really expected, so I'm very grateful to be able to control what I can.

Adam Young

#7. I was learning the nature of magic; it seemed to work according to a strict set of rules. And yet, somehow, it never worked in quite the way you expected.

Juliet Marillier

#8. I always thought that I was a good swimmer, you know? That in a sink or swim situation I would rise to the top. But the truth is I was drowning. I was sinking fast and you threw me a lifeline. I never expected to love you. But you saved my life. How could I not?

Rachel Hayes

#9. You know, I never expected to enter the movie business.

Christopher Atkins

#10. I never could have expected I'd lose so much of myself betting on you.

Kandi Steiner

#11. He studies me thoughtfully. "You are a beautiful queen, Elisa," he says voice pitched low.
I never expected he would say such a thing. "A month or two of pastries will fix that," I say. Then I smile to show him I mean it flippantly.
His expression does not change. "Even then.

Rae Carson

#12. Laurelyn, I never expected to love you but I do ... with every fiber of my being.

Georgia Cates

#13. I ate fantastic Italian food in Croatia, which you wouldn't expect. The food in Istanbul was amazing. I never would've expected that and the food, I guess you're learning something about me, the food in Prague, they're very, very heavy meat eaters, like, a lot of meat, which is great.

Cliff Curtis

#14. I never thought meeting you would be this boring. I thought we'd put our Italian emotion into gear and scream the place down. I never expected indifference.

Melina Marchetta

#15. Edward's house. I'd never really hoped to see where he lived. He was like Batman. He rode into town, saved your ass, then vanished, and you never really expected an invitation to see the Bat Cave. Now here I was standing in front of it. Cool. It

Laurell K. Hamilton

#16. I play a character in the WWE and everybody hates my character. I'm the evil villain bad guy. Whenever people meet me, they're like, 'Wow, you're such a nice guy. We never expected that.'

Chris Jericho

#17. The idea of not being a kid anymore terrifies me. I am an adult and I have been hurled out of the world of boys and girls into the fray of men and women, and expected to function as a grown-up when I never functioned very well as a kid.

Kelley York

#18. I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I'm running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can't reduce (the debt) any more

Alan Greenspan

#19. People tend to say, 'You're not as fat or as ugly as I expected.' I never know how to reply. It's a bit of a slap, but they don't mean it, I'm sure.

Siobhan Finneran

#20. My high school was a private school where you went to an Ivy League. That's just what was expected of you and nothing less. So I grew up never being okay with a 'B' because a 'B' was not good enough.

Troian Bellisario

#21. That was real?"
His arms tightened. "Yeah. The stench of all that blood
overwhelmed you. It's to be expected, you being a new mate."
"I think it was the flying body parts."
His mouth curved into a smile. "Life with me is never
boring.

Laurann Dohner

#22. I never expected to earn money out of writing. In fact, the idea of getting published was too bourgeois. Then, in England, I realised that writing a book was something you could do without it being laughable.

Romesh Gunesekera

#23. I never expected my story to change, but it did. Stories tend to do that; you go out searching for something and come back with something different.

Katy Evans

#24. I told you I set no limits on my love for you. I don't. Yet I have never expected you to offer me your body. It was the whole of your heart, all for myself, that I sought. Even though I've never had a right to it. For you gave it away ere ever you saw me.

Robin Hobb

#25. I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's health care and education, and I'd dive on a live grenade to get this message out, so thank you for this forum.

Karen Duffy

#26. Last night with Rhys. It was ... the first time in years that I felt so loved. For what I am, for my faults and my virtues, for my past and my future. I haven't had that with a man since ... since I had it with you. And I never expected to have it again.

Elizabeth George

#27. You, whom I have always loved and never found, you whom I expected to see at the end of the rails beyond the horizon -

Ayn Rand

#28. I'm not saying he's stingy. But sometimes when you're too careful it just turns into a different kind of carelessness. It's not that either. He's from a generation that never expected to get midway up the ladder so when he got there he was too stunned to dare to climb higher.

Marlon James

#29. I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.

Alan Bennett

#30. I'm afraid of losing you, I never expected I could be so stupidly afraid of losing you.

Sara Baume

#31. Passion is the thing that sustains you in acting. If you're doing it for fame and money, don't even bother because it will never happen. The last thing I ever expected was to be paid for this.

Scott Patterson

#32. I can't make sense out of that girl," he said to the bard, "Can you?"
"Never mind," Fflewddur said, "We aren't really expected to.

Lloyd Alexander

#33. Ten years ago, you wrote a book and you never expected to find out anything about the author. Now with social media, everyone wants that connection. I think our readers want to be invited into our lives and brought on the journey and be part of this whole process.

Jane Green

#34. It's been real weird. It wasn't how I expected my life to turn out. Especially, mainly pertaining to the show. It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?

Jack Osbourne

#35. Ohhh. Humanity, I Love You. You never cease to amaze me. This has been amusing, little ghost, and that was not something I expected. But every playtime must come to an end. This dream is over.
- "Playing House" From THE SANDMAN #12

Neil Gaiman

#36. I didn't mean for any of this to happen."
"Any of what?"
"Any of that." He pointed at the bed, as I had. "That was something ... beautiful. Something miraculous and incredible. I never expected that. I never expected to fall for you, Kyrie St. Claire. But I have.

Jasinda Wilder

#37. Your perfume. . .' His tone held a faint hint of surprise. 'I'd somehow expected you to wear something more. . .sultry. I don't recognize this fragrance.'
'It's new," Courtenay said tersely. 'It's called Get Lost. You've probably never encountered it before.

Grace Green

#38. And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn't seem broken at all.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#39. I've never understood this taste for otkazat'sya. Is it because you thought you were one of them for so long?"
"I had a taste for you, once." His head snapped up. He hadn't expected that. Saints, it was satisfying.

Leigh Bardugo

#40. When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did say, "When you are in doubt," but when I am in doubt myself I use more sagacity.

Mark Twain

#41. A lot of nonsense is spoken about work. Some of the finest men I've known were the laziest. Never work because it's expected of you. Find out how much work you must do to live and be happy. Don't do any more.

James A. Michener

#42. You are everything I never expected. Never anticipated. Everything I never knew I'd need.

A.L. Jackson

#43. Did you never think of children then? Ours?" His voice was thick with emotion. "I never expected in the whole of my life that God would be so generous as to give me you. I did not think to ask for more.

Deanna Raybourn

#44. Although you will often receive something other than what you prayed for, I have never known it to be worse - it has always been better than expected.

Squire Rushnell

#45. Let go of all expectations, and you shall never be disappointed. I find that rather disappointing to never be disappointed is very expected. Therefore let's only let go of those expectations we know will disappoint us and let's expect to be disappointed sometimes. Life is beautiful that way.

Nicole Haslam

#46. You are Shenkt? I expected more."
"Pray to whatever god you believe in that you never see more."
"I do not pray."
Shenkt leaned close, and whispered in his ear. "I advise you to start.

Joe Abercrombie

#47. You are the one who taught me that love was never what we expected it to be and that it was all we needed. For that, and for a thousand other things, I send my gratitude.

Alice Hoffman

#48. Liz, I didn't expect to fall for you, not like this ... not so completely. And I never expected for you to fall for me too. But here we are. Let's see where this goes. Let's see how far left there is to fall.

Rachel Higginson

#49. Mass-market movies have become about one thing. They kind of declare themselves right off the bat ... But when I go to see (a film), I want to be surprised. I want to see something I never expected. And when you get that, it should be celebrated.

Tom Hanks