Top 100 Quotes About Expected Love
#1. Give more than is expected, love more than seems wise, serve more than seems necessary, and help more than is asked.
Cory Booker
#2. Of all the problems and complications in my life, I had not expected love to be one of them.
Stacie Evans
#3. Anyway, I want to remember that love can happen. Because there is life after not having a life. I never expected love to happen. What was I expecting from life, then?
Douglas Coupland
#4. I'd somehow always expected love to be primarily a mental state, so I still felt unaccustomed to the physical manifestation of my feelings for her: the way my stomach would grow tight, the way my chest would press in, my heart pounding blood hard and fast through my arteries.
Christina Lauren
#5. I can feel him step close, then his hands lay on my shoulders, and they burn in the most delicious way, only reminding me how dangerous Benjamin is to me, to my soul. How fast I would get lost in him, only to end up with a broken heart when I could not be the woman he expected me to be.
Nicole Kiefer
#6. Love is giving without desiring, it's giving without requiring, but know that it will be returned. Maybe not as expected, but as needed
Gerald Mills
#7. Letting out a deep breath, he pressed his forehead down to mine. With his eyes closed, he whispered, "That's what love is ... It's scary not knowing what's expected, but I know it'll be the best frightening love we've ever had." - Marcus (Disastrous)
E.L. Montes
#8. Put the chicken in the fridge. This is not a sentence I had ever expected to hear from Christian Grey, and only he can make it sound hot, really hot.
E.L. James
#9. I love to make a mistake. It is my only assurance that I cannot reasonably be expected to assume the responsibility of omniscience.
Rex Stout
#10. Overrun with Goths wearing sandals and soaking lentils at home, the future I wanted is gone. The future I was promised. Everything I expected. The way everything was supposed to turn out. Happiness and peace and love and comfort.
Chuck Palahniuk
#11. I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to this day it mystifies me.
Courtney Love
#12. The nights were advantageous, too. After they kissed their families goodnight, it was expected that they would share a bed, their bodies close, their movements obscured under the covers.
Alexis Coe
#13. What I love about Twitter specifically is that reciprocity is not guaranteed, nor expected. In other words, I can go one way. I can put things out. I don't have to respond to everybody.
Elizabeth Banks
#14. I wanted to break you. I never expected you to like it.
A. Zavarelli
#15. But when a person loves you so much that he asks for nothing in return, it's only to be expected that that's about what he gets. It's like a Law of Nature.
Jenny Wingfield
#16. All they expected me to do was rip and read the wire 'leads,' without doing any original reporting. It was pretty basic, but gave me a taste of how to combine my love of politics and broadcasting.
Andrea Mitchell
#17. Loyalty was a funny thing. So was love. They both bit you when you least expected it.
Jodi Lynn Anderson
#18. I love actresses who are brave and don't do what's expected of them or don't play off how they look or take risks.
Kelly Reilly
#19. How can I be expected to love someone who tries such crude manipulations as bringing me breakfast in bed?
Matt Groening
#20. I look up into his face and catch a glimpse of an emotion I never expected to see. His hazel eyes are warm, his mouth is tender. He looks like a man in love.
Philippa Gregory
#21. I love writing in compressed time periods because the act of survival in the midst of panic and fear, that's where true heroism comes. If you have a uniform, and you're expected to do things, it's a sort of incremental heroism.
Peter Landesman
#22. I expected you to look ... content, happy even, after your alone time with Sammi, not all mopey and depressed. You didn't screw up, did you? Don't all Kings make love perfectly?
Donna Grant
#23. No one sat me down with a piece of paper and said, This is what is expected of you. But ... I'm lucky enough in the fact that I have found my role ... I love being with people.
Princess Diana
#24. In life, it is never the big battle, the big moment, the big speech, the big election. That does not change things. What changes things is every day, getting up and rendering small acts of service and love beyond that what's expected of you or required of you.
Cory Booker
#25. I would love to live free of the fear and sadness and real desperation that I think the effect of childbirth has on women, especially because we are expected to be so concerned by 'recovery' from childbirth.
Romola Garai
#26. No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
#27. A perfect marriage is as rare as a perfect love. Could it be otherwise, when both men and women are so imperfect? Could aught else be expected? Yet all do expect it.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
#28. I never expected to be even busier at 81, and doing more of what I love, than when I was 30.
Gloria Steinem
#29. The love we felt for each other while definitely never planned or expected as I suppose most love isnt had irrevocably seared us both deeply.
S.C. Stephens
#30. It happened like this. I was stolen from an airport. Taken from everything I knew, everything I was used to. Taken to sand and heat, dirt and danger. And he expected me to love him. This is my story. A letter from nowhere.
Lucy Christopher
#31. A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the mists of smog, is curiously lovable, in somewhat the way an individual who has got himself into an unconscionable scrape seems lovable - or at least deserving of support.
E.B. White
#32. This is sort of not expected, but I would love to produce a record for Missy Elliott. It would be totally different, but she makes party music. 'Lose Control' was my favorite song when I was in 5th or 6th grade.
Ansel Elgort
#33. People expected something for nothing, that's why they did nothing so beautifully these days.
Holly Hood
#34. When you find that special someone, you don't let go. You jump in. You fight for him. Love doesn'thappen when you want it to happen. It happens when it was meant to be. Your paths crossed when you least expected it, That's the beauty of love.
M. Clarke
#35. Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what you learned along the way.
Jodi Picoult
#36. What I never expected is how much nothing there is afterwords. In life,, he was not nearby. Now he is everywhere I dream and every place I wake. Or if not him exactly, then a nothing so much like him I cannot seem to wish it goodnight.
Jim Moore
#37. A thousand moments lost because you took them for granted, just because you expected a thousand more.
Saleem Sharma
#38. And they didn't like to pay with trust and love, but rather with money and goods. They betrayed each other and expected being betrayed themselves.
Hermann Hesse
#39. Laurelyn, I never expected to love you but I do ... with every fiber of my being.
Georgia Cates
#41. 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
#42. Do more than expected, promise less than you can keep.
Debasish Mridha
#43. That's what love is ... It's scary not knowing what's expected ... but I know it'll be the best frightening love we've ever had.
E.L. Montes
#44. Some strangers become more important to you than family, maybe because you're not expected to love them. You can leave them whenever you want to. They can, too. Every moment together is a choice.
Walter Kirn
#45. Do not feel bad about your mistakes or those of others. Love them! Remember that one: they are to be expected; two: they're the first and most essential part of the learning process; and three: feeling bad about them will prevent you from getting better.
Ray Dalio
#46. I made a vow to myself, then, that no one would ever control my emotions. I would save love for the children I expected to have and for my animals. I would never allow myself to be made weak by it, never allow anyone to come that close. It was a decision that would cloud my life for many years.
Toni Maguire
#47. You were the one who taught me that love was never what we expected it to be and that it was all that we needed.
Alice Hoffman
#48. Maybe the kind of love that would comfort me did not exist. Perhaps I expected too much of love and no one existed who could ever meet my unceasing and bottomless need for it.
Amy Tan
#49. If my attitude be on of fear, not faith, about the one who has disappointed me; if I say "Just what I expected," if a fall occurs, then I know nothing of Calvary Love.
Amy Carmichael
#50. YOU, Harley Ann, are my beast.
My perfect wave, my high, my one, true love.
Mason ~ When It's Least Expected
Heather Van Fleet
#51. No one expected the preacher's daughter to sin, but they sure would love to catch me at it,
Abbi Glines
#52. Life was fragile and love was, too. At any moment, even our happiest ones, our world could shatter and we wouldn't see it coming. There was only more loss ahead, showing its ugly face when we least expected it.
Donna Freitas
#53. Men who make all the decisions in a relationship are also the ones who will blame you when they don't work out as they expected.
Heather Chapple
#54. I didn't become an actor to be famous. I genuinely love acting and never expected to make a penny at it.
Justin Chon
#55. 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
#56. When I became a poet, the Korean literary world expected women poets to sing passively of love. Naturally, this was not written anywhere, but this rule existed nonetheless. Consequently, I received plenty of serious criticism.
Kim Hyesoon
#57. 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
#58. Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.
Emily Carr
#59. Love like this wasn't what he'd planned or wanted or expected, surely it was indeed a trap, for even when you tried to run away, it followed you through the grass and lay down beside you, it overtook common sense and willpower.
Alice Hoffman
#60. he almost never spoke about himself, in my hearing at least: though once, shortly after his marriage, when he brought his wife to lunch with me, he said...looking at her across the grassy quadrangle, 'I never expected to have, in my sixties, the happiness that passed me by in my twenties.
Jocelyn Gibb
#61. If love was a river, then Martha's was the Nile: enormous, life-giving, and at regular intervals capable of drowning you in murk for reasons you didn't understand. But you couldn't do without it. And no one expected you to.
Nan Willard Cappo
#62. The declaration of love may come sooner than expected. Take time before you reciprocate as this may simply be a statement of what they expect from you.
Seneca The Younger
#63. And he knew that at that moment, they understood each other perfectly, and when he told her what he was going to do now, she would not say 'be careful' or 'don't do it', but she would accept his decision because she would not have expected anything less of him.
J.K. Rowling
#64. I love my children, but I don't really want to talk about them. I'm not that much of a freakish middle-aged mother, I'm just very lucky, and there isn't much more to say. I'd like not to be constantly expected to be a spokesman for things that are part of the natural rhythm of a woman's life.
Mariella Frostrup
#65. If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.
Harriet Martineau
#66. The loneliness comes to me in certain hours everyday, like a visitor. Like a friend you never expected, a friend you never really want to be with, but he always visit you and love you somehow,
Xiaolu Guo
#67. Well, now that I'm thoroughly and diligently queer, I expected more manly love-talk, you know? Not like Pretty Baby and feeding you grapes and stuff," he snorted.
"Uh, you mean like, hey you bastard I don't have a beer and nobody's sucking my dick, what's wrong with this picture?
Z.A. Maxfield
#68. Do you trust me?"
She could still hear him, through flesh and noise.
"I love you!" she shouted.
It wasn't the answer he'd expected or the she'd expected to give. It was the wrong time, the wrong thing to say, but her answer lit a fire in his eyes.
Dawn Metcalf
#69. Dear Asshole: Thank you for keeping your word and believing me. It was more than I expected. Also, I'm sorry you were inconvenienced by my gluing your locker shut at the beginning of this year. However, I am not sorry that I did it, because it was a lot of fun. Love, Alex.
Francesca Zappia
#70. We are not optimists; we do not present a lovely vision of the world which everyone is expected to fall in love with. We simply have, wherever we are, some small local task to do, on the side of justice, for the poor. - HERBERT MCCABE, OP
Terry Eagleton
#71. True love does not consist in trying to correct others, but in feeling joy that things are better than we expected.
Paulo Coelho
#72. I am sure that no one coming to this ceremony expected a High Court judge to use the occasion to talk about that four-letter word, love. But that's a good thing. In life, never be predictable. It's so uncool.
Michael Kirby
#73. The most beautiful things in life happen, when they are least expected.
Deepak Rana
#74. Although I am a person who expected to be rooted in one spot forever, as it has turned out I love having the memories of living in many places.
Frances Mayes
#75. Losing something she loved had ripped her open in a way she had not expected. The pain hurt, but the pain was right. The Order had wrought a galaxy in which good capitulated to evil, where human feelings - Aryn's feelings - were crushed under the weight of Jedi nonattachment.
Paul S. Kemp
#76. Sometimes the character will go into a completely different direction than I expected once the cameras start rolling. That's what I love about what I do.
Lorraine Toussaint
#77. To love someone was not what she had expected. It was like falling from somewhere high up and breaking in half, and only one person having the secret to the puzzle of putting her back together.
Jodi Lynn Anderson
#78. Self acceptance is common, Unfortunately, for some daft reason you are expected to have some kind of psychology degree to learn it.
Auliq Ice
#79. It is kind of ridiculous that a poet is expected to live in the real world.
Sanober Khan
#80. Who knew? I had no idea that someone could be such a thorn in your foot during a death march and still be irresistibly attractive in some magical, undeniable way."
"So is this what people call sweet nothings? Because somehow, I expected it to be a little more ... complementary.
Susan Ee
#81. I think, How small my life seemed then. How little I wanted for myself. How little I expected of myself and those who claimed to love me.
Liza Palmer
#82. I love strange choices. I'm always interested in people who depart from what is expected of them and go into new territory.
Cate Blanchett
#83. Even when apologising, this guy turns on the charm. And the worst thing is that it works.
She had reached a point in her life where she no longer expected anything from men, though that didn't stop her from falling in love with them.
Guillaume Musso
#84. I had never expected to fall in love, but then, I'd never imagined anyone like Jess. She was one beautiful contradiction. The idea of letting someone else own my heart wasn't appealing. It sounded weak and Foolish. Something meant for the words of a song. I was wrong.
Abbi Glines
#85. Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to.
Ann Brashares
#86. Most men find [peace] entirely unlike what they had expected - like love...
Patrick O'Brian
#87. I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.
Amy Tan
#88. True adulthood occurs the moment we grasp that the people who raised us do not exist solely for our comfort and reassurance. From that point on, the steady stream of unconditional love and support we've expected from them all our lives has to flow both ways.
Lynn Coady
#89. 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
#90. It is not to be expected that we should love God supremely if we have not known him to be more desirable than all other things.
Isaac Watts
#91. It matters not who you love, but only the quality of such a love ... a flower is no less beautiful because it does not bloom in the expected form. Because it lasts an hour, and note days.
Alexandra Bracken
#92. 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
#93. I knew it in my bones. That this time was it. I had finally made my choice, and so had he. He let me go. I was relieved, which I expected. What I didn't expect was to feel so much grief.
Jenny Han
#94. But he did not tell her, for he realised how petty it would appear to her, and how different from what she had expected, less sensational and less touching; he was afraid, too, lest, disillusioned in the matter of art, she might at the same time be disillusioned in the greater matter of love.
Marcel Proust
#95. 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
#96. Love is like a flower, and like the body, it needs constant feeding ... And with love, also, cannot be expected to last forever unless it is continually fed with portions of love, the manifestation of esteem and admiration, the expressions of gratitude, and the consideration of unselfishness.
Spencer W. Kimball
#97. But as far as dream roles - I know this is so expected of me, but I would to play Elphaba in 'Wicked' on Broadway. I have a lot of dream roles, but that's like my main one because of the vocal track. I love belting high things!
Ariana Grande
#98. The question is not why fools fall in love. It is expected of them. When "smart" people fall in love - that's the problem.
Jessica Zafra
#99. I lay in his arms and I understood. I am two women and I love two men. Elise will always love Kit and Alice loves Daniel. This was not the life or the love I had expected but it was love all the same.
Natasha Solomons
#100. When I first became an actress, I expected to do regional and classical theater; I just love the whole creative process.
Annie Parisse
