“She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.”
Source: The Ravishing of Lol Stein
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The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950), Part IV: A Few Greats, Catherine the Great

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Jesse Owens, Champion Athlete (1990)
Context: She was unusual because even though I knew her family was as poor as ours, nothing she said or did seemed touched by that. Or by prejudice. Or by anything the world said or did. It was as if she had something inside her that somehow made all that not count. I fell in love with her some the first time we ever talked, and a little bit more every time after that until I thought I couldn't love her more than I did. And when I felt that way, I asked her to marry me … and she said she would.

All About Soul.
Song lyrics, River of Dreams (1993)

“She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.”
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

“Now that she realized she had been waiting for him — she did not like that.”
Source: Eleven Minutes

"Equinoctial" (1977), The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels, p. 84

She's Always a Woman.
Song lyrics, The Stranger (1977)