Quotes About Ambiguity

Sve je bilo mogu?e, a ništa se nije ostvarivalo.

Najgore je kad ljudi ?ute, kad se ne objasne, pa svaka sumnja ima pravo na život. I moja i tvoja.

Sve sam to ja, isitnjen, sav od komadi?a, od odsjaja, probljesaka, sav od slu?ajnosti, od nerapoznatih razloga, od smisla koji je postojao pa se zaturio, i sada više ne znam što sam u tom kršu.

sve ima svoju suprotnu stranu i ljudski duh, živ i uznemiren poželi da prevrne svaku stvar da joj vidi nali?je pitaju?i se da to možda nije lice

Sve sam to ja, isitnjen, sav od komadi?a, od odsjaja, probljesaka, sav od slu?ajnosti, od neraspoznatih razloga, od smisla koji je postojao pa se zaturio, i sad više ne znam šta sam u tom kršu.

Uko?ila mi se ruka kojom držim pero, svije?a tiho kašljuca i prska sitnim varnicama brane?i se od smrti, a ja gledam u duge redove slova, u nišane misli, i ne znam jesam li ih ubio ili oživio.

Ne?e da prizna koliko se nadala. A ne zna ?ak ni ?emu.

I want to tell him that everything is a mess, that I hate the in-between space, that my feet ache for the ground, that a very small, very scared part of me wants to touch the sky, and that that is maybe the worst thing of all.

A piano might fall on your head, he said, but it also might not. And in the meantime you never know. Something nice might happen.

A veces veo cosas que no puedo entender. Como personas que sonríen cogidas de la mano cuando en realidad se odian. Es algo que me desconcierta, y Gil dice que es porque sin duda es desconcertante. Es lo mismo que ser traductor. Hay cosas que no se pueden traducir porque las palabras no existen en el otro idioma, o el significado es tan específico de un lugar o un modo de hablar que desaparece en la traducción. Pero a veces hay pistas.

To keep people from the particulars of your life kept you from being seen as one thing or another, and so it was possible you could be thought of as anything, or even as everything.

Faith had taken an interest in her. She had even said she admired her. And now Faith was giving her permission. But permission to do what? The answer wasn't at all obvious.

He didn't feel the need to have his life figured out. But the truth was that he didn't want to deal with it.

you sometimes feel totally unready for them, or even that they're

I don't know,' Greer said to Zee, aware of a kind of familiar vagueness sweeping around her. She sometimes said, 'I don't know,' even when she did know. What she meant was that it was more comfortable to stay in vagueness than to leave it.

We get a fat-slicked chocolate chip muffin, which we heat up in the rotating toaster machine. Standing next to it, the heat radiating off its coils, I imagine myself suffering eternal damnation for sins not yet clear.

Trying to justify a world we don't hold all the answers to is what bedevils the best of us. Sometimes it's better just to accept that things are as we see them.

Yes, she was his angel. But can't you guess, my love? She was his demon too.

I know everything and nothing about him all at the same time.

What are you, Elle? Are you a ghost? Are you an angel or a demon? Because you can't be real.

I murmur something that sounds like "goodbye" but tastes like "hello.

Darkness reveals as much as it hides, sometimes.

Sometimes love takes you by the hand and leads you to run through fields of flowers while butterflies weave you a dress out of rainbows. Other times, love takes you by the throat and chokes you until all you see is the bright, sharp trail of shooting stars right before everything turns to black. The problem is, you can never tell in advance which way the story ends, not until you're too far into it, and you have no choice but to keep turning the pages.

What I envy most about you and everyone else heading back to school is the certainty of it all. You've got a prescribed set of requirements to guide you through the next few years. Focus your energy on the completion of those assignments and you'll succeed. Guaranteed. Where's my syllabus to guide me through life?