“She had expected to encounter death as a kind of existential depth and had been disappointed. But maybe there was a deeper truth there. Maybe profundity actually is a mode of disappointment. The rhythm of the climax—joy and despair, sex and pain—is of course the currency of life. Death can only ever be a sort of anticlimactic belatedness.”

“There’s a big difference between death threats and love letters–even if the person writing the death threats still claims to actually love you. Of course, considering I once tried to kill someone I loved, maybe I had no right to judge.”

“The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.”

“She had the best kind of courage, or maybe the worst kind, the kind that gets you into trouble.”

“Always expecting this and expecting that. May I recommend serenity to you? A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment. Learn to be one with the joy of the moment.”

“b>The love which demands nothing but beauty itself and lives in selfless worship... is the love that no disappointment can ever conquer, perhaps not even death itself”

“Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.”

“[He] looked death in the eye and did not seem disappointed.”

“I have always — at least, ever since I can remember — had a kind of longing for death.”

“Maybe there was no happily ever after […] but there was happiness sometimes and she had it now, doing what she knew she was born for.”