Jennifer Weiner Quotes

The world could bring you poison in a jewelled cup, or surprising gifts. Sometimes you didn't know which of them it was.

But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.

Nothing really ever happens like you imagine it will.

Writing is a journey of discovery because until you start, you never know what will happen, and you can be surprised by what you do - expect the unexpected!

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

Seeing my parents makes me realise that life is not a fairy tale.

Nothing lives up to what you imagine. It changes, shifts, becomes something else.

That was a surprise. I just had wished that Wil Wheaton was there. He was missing from the last show and it would have been nice if everyone could have been there.

Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.

Hmmm... I never get the answer I think I'm going to get.

I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.

They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.

… experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur!

The older I get, the more I'm surprised with life. Things don't end up the way you think they will.

The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would.

You never know what's going to happen in the draft. You just wait until your name gets called and then things happen.

I'm used to things not coming in the packages you expect.

Everything works out in weird ways in the NFL.

I have planned my whole future, my whole life. And nine out of 10 times, it never happens the way you want or plan or think it's going to happen.

You try not to pay too much attention to the hype before the game, because you never know what's going to happen.

Be careful what you ask of Heaven; it might be granted.

There’s no such thing as handsome princes, she told herself. There’s no such thing as happily ever after.

But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.

In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the pricesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.