Debbie Steele

“There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.”
― Alison McGhee, All Rivers Flow to the Sea

“Maybe my expectations for honesty are too high.”
― Kelley Armstrong, The Calling

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
― Alexander Pope