Quotes About Ambiguity

I guess life is full of maybes.

Sometimes, life leaves you without directions, without guideposts or signs. When this happens, you just have to pick a direction and run like hell.

The cast of Hamlet had not moved much. They had that haunted yet hopeful look in their eyes, like the ones you see in photographs of people crammed into steerage compartments, traveling to some new, unknown land.

I had no idea if he had asked me because he liked me, or if his mom made him (our parents know each other), or because he lost a bet.

It all feels so fake that it seems okay.

Stevie had absolutely no idea what he meant by "have a butcher's" and was not going to ask.

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh David said. It was as good a summary of the situation as any. oh, Stevie said. Again, this about summed it up.

What serves on either side, and if you wish to hide, may protect you from your foe, or show him where to go?

Do not expect consistency. Everything is a contradiction of everything else. Nothing exists but contradictions.

The weather seemed afraid to take a stand and clung noncommittally to some sort of road's middle; Board of Directors' weather, she thought.

They're not going anywhere, they're escaping. And I don't think they know what it is that they want to escape.

They seemed to want her approval, without having to know whether she approved or not.

a vague soil spread and ready from which friendships would spring.

The fact is I don't know what I want, and I don't know if I am doing the right thing. I've always been told what is right—and suddenly I don't know anymore. I know what I don't want, but I don't know what I want,' she said, looking down at the ice cream she had hardly touched.

This idea of purity and you're never compromised, you're always politically woke and all that stuff. You should get over that quickly. The world is messy. There are ambiguities.

A person can succeed and fail at the same time. Maybe letting me down was your way of getting me to be me.

The war's [World War II] end has left America with loads of get-up-and-go, and no place to go.

Two dots an inch apart, as small and tidy as punctuation marks at the end of a sentence none of us could read. The sentence would have started somewhere just above her heart.

There seemed to be no end to the things that could be hiding, waiting it out, right where you thought you could see it all.

Sóli, let me tell you. The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.

why, he very nearly almost looked handsome. If you could ignore the telltale signs that he is a certified creep.

Right there in the middle of the road he took the cigarette out of my mouth and put it in his, then struck a match on his thumbnail and lit the two of them together, exactly like Humphrey Bogart. Then, ever so gently, he put the lit cigarette back in my lips. It seemed almost like we had kissed. Chills ran down my back, but I couldn't tell for sure if it was thrill chills or the creeps. Sometimes it is very hard to know the difference.

No, you shouldn't have come here. But you are here, so yes, you should be here. There are more words in the world then yes and no.

It was hard to see where all this could possibly go when it melted.