Quotes About Ambivalence

She didn't really want to have a baby; she wanted to want to have a baby.

In the five years it took me to come to my conclusion, I endured intense anxiety, self-doubt, sorrow, and a great deal of ambivalence about my future.

I don't really want to have a baby; I want to want to have a baby." I longed to feel like everybody else, but I had to face the fact that I did not.

Stars will continue to shine even when you are inside the mud; the universe does not care about you!

It was no place, Ryan thought, to come home to. ???

And I hate him and love him and curse him and feel sorry for him, all at the same time.

I not really sure if we can

It was a riddle to see a person could get what they wanted and regret it, could even regret wanting it in the first place.

You wish for something, you've wanted it for years, and you're sure you want it, as long as you know you can't have it. But if all at once it looks as though your wish might come true, you suddenly find yourself wishing you had never wished for any such thing.

I had never liked my parents so much that I wished to be reminded of them every time I walked into a room. I

Daylight had not brought a solution, but it had accorded indifference. Having

I know not which I prefer the look of—those who attack us or that which defends us!

There's plenty of serious stuff that works to cord the muscles of literary merit. But

Yaz and Meyer didn't know whether to shit once, twice, go blind, or die – though the latter

What a magnificent race of creatures, he thought, that could build an airport on top of a sailing ship. But what a wretched one that mainly used it to bomb one another back into the Stone Age…

These days, the bigger the company, the less you can figure out what it does.

I didn't even want to fuck her, or maybe I kind of wanted to fuck her but I also kind of wanted to die, I couldn't really tell.

How do you keep doing that, Ford Winter? she wanted to ask. Have me swallowing back a lump in my throat one minute... And rolling my eyes the next.

And just because I was a little more willing and a lot more able to be a parent didn't mean I was itching to become one.

Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.

You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.

There's no right or wrong, success or failure.

But she could not imagine clinging to Japan, which was like a beloved stepmother who refused to love you,

Casey meant it when she said, 'Forgive us for our debts as we forgive our debtors,' because they were for her the hardest words to live by, and by saying them, she hoped they'd become possible. Like Ted, Casey would never discuss her ambivalent views on religion. She was honest enough to admit that her privacy cloaked a fear: the fear of being found out as a hypocrite" (Free Food For Millionaires, p.100-101.)