Expectation Quotes

“Life is still malleable and full of potential. The openings to the roads not taken have not yet sealed up. They still have time to become who they are going to be.”
― Anna Hope, Expectation

“This, to Lissa, seems to be the main thing that university teaches you – how to bullshit convincingly. The better the university, the better the bullshit.”
― Anna Hope, Expectation

“She has stumbled through, has survived. Just.”
― Anna Hope, Expectation

“She may not ever know. And this fact – the knowledge of his subjectivity, these experiences of his to which she will never have access – feels more violent, somehow, than the betrayal itself.”
― Anna Hope, Expectation

“Her head hurts - from the alcohol, from her mother, from the sun. _We changed the world for you and what have you done with it?_ She knows what Sarah thinks. That she has wasted time - fumbled the baton in the intergenerational feminist relay. What she should have said - _Our best. We're just doing our fucking best._”
― Anna Hope, Expectation

“Her wants proliferate, metastasize inside her.”
― Anna Hope, Expectation

“They are stiff in an English way. Not like the Russians. The Russians are not stiff, not at all. They have vodka and grief and the blood of the land in their veins, and the English have weak tea and the damp.”
― Anna Hope, Expectation

“The afternoon deepens. The light grows viscous.”
― Anna Hope, Expectation

“They discuss whether discharge - with its pejorative connotations - is itself a patriarchal term. They decide that there are as many different types of vaginal abjects as Inuits have words for snow. They watch with satisfaction as the boys cringe. They feel a power. They become electric.”
― Anna Hope, Expectation

“Hannah estudia a estas personas y piensa: aquí, la vida está aquí. Como si desde el principio una parte de su interior hubiera estado entregada a la ardua tarea de crearse una piel, en medio de la oscuridad y del silencio, y ahora ya estuviera lista para lucirla, para entrar en la luz.”
― Anna Hope, Expectation