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Quotes for waiting to hear back
The inbox has been refreshed twice since you started reading this page. You've done everything there was to do. The test has been taken, or the form is in, or you said what you came to say, and now somebody else has it on their desk.
Waiting is an odd kind of tired. It takes up the whole day and gives you no job to do. Every buzz in your pocket means a small jolt, followed by a delivery update. People in the middle of it say it helps to give the hours some other shape, and to tell one person how it is.
The lines won't guess at the answer, good or bad, since nobody writing them knows it. They're for your phone, which you were going to look at anyway.
The moments
- Refreshing your email again
- A test result still not back
- An offer that was due on Friday
- Three dots that appeared, then stopped
- The buzz in your pocket that turned out to be a delivery
- A form sent weeks ago, and no word
What people say helps
- Giving the hours another shape
- Telling one person what the wait is like
- Setting a time to check, and looking less in between
“No news is good news” and “I'm sure it'll be fine” offer a forecast from someone who has no way of knowing.
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Quill Originals
You checked your email on the way to check your email.
A person you've never met has your form on their desk.
Nobody at work could tell. That took effort.
The whole office over there has gone home.
You're more than the thing you're waiting on.
Anyone would be distracted today.
People say it'll be fine. They don't know either.
Reading tone into a three-line email, again.
Long week, this one.
Your mood today has no say in what it says.
Nothing you do today changes what it says.
Kind regards. You've studied those two words for clues.
A late reply is a late reply.
You can hope and be scared. Most people do.
You keep replaying how they said it.
Every unknown number stops you mid-sentence.
You get to feel whatever you feel when it comes.
Refreshing has never once changed the answer.
You've been decent company this week, with all that on your mind.
Waiting is work, even though it looks like nothing.
This week still belongs to you, whatever's in the post.
You laughed in the right places and thought about it throughout.
Wanting to know this badly shows how much it matters.
Whatever it says, it's no verdict on you.
Nobody's expecting you to be good at this.
You could recite their last email by now.
Hope and dread can share a morning.
Nobody was ever readier for a phone call by worrying harder.
The portal still says pending.
The kettle's boiled twice. You forgot both times.
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