Quotes About Ambiguity

Not knowing is half the fun, Aphrodite said, Exquisitely painful isn't it? Not being sure who you love and who loves you? Oh, you kids! It's so cute I'm going to cry!

Far, far below, red liquid bubbled. Blood? Lava? Evil ketchup? None of the posibilities were good.

I wasn't sure whether I was supposed to kneel or buy stamps from him or what.

The thing about talking swords…it's hard to tell when they're kidding. They have no facial expressions. Or faces.

You're probably wondering: why were Medusa's kids a golden warrior and a winged horse? And how had they been stuck in Medusa's body all those years?Heck, I dunno. I'm just telling you how it was. You want stuff to make sense, you're in the wrong universe

Maybe—just maybe—Sadie had my best interests at heart. (I just caught her making faces at me, so maybe not.)

I didn't learn a thing," I promised Alex. "You are still a mystery wrapped in a question mark wrapped in flannel.

Aren't I happy?' Ursula puzzled. What do you think? Ursula didn't know. She wasn't sure that she had a yardstick against which to measure happiness or unhappiness. She had obscure memories of elation, of falling into darkness, but they belonged to that world of shadows and dreams that was ever-present and yet almost impossible to pin down.

her. It was a cruel thing, trying to sprout and find the light of day. It was truth. She wasn't sure that she wanted it.

Surprise?" she said when she eventually tracked him down. "It is," he said. They had hugged warily, as if one of them might have a knife.

As an exercise, can you recall the last time you saw someone whose gender was ambiguous? Was this person attractive to you? And if you knew they called themselves neither a man nor a woman, what would it make you if you're attracted to that person? And if you were to kiss? Make love? What would you be?

And then I found out that gender can have fluidity , which is quite different from ambiguity. If ambiguity is a refusal to fall within a prescribed gender code, then fluidity is the refusal to remain one gender or another. Gender fluidity is the ability to freely and knowingly become one or many of a limitless number of genders, for any length of time, at any rate of change. Gender fluidity recognizes no borders or rules of gender.

Sometimes there are no reasons. Often, most of the time, there are no reasons. The world cannot be explained.

I don't know," said Diana. "I gave up a long time ago trying to decide whether we're ever ourselves or are only playing roles. And who could tell which the role was, the passionate kisser or the ruthless conqueror? Maybe they both are roles. Or maybe they're both true. Can't two contradictory things exist inside one person?

Everyone always believes him to be the person they think he is, which in truth is no one

Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.

You never know ahead of time what something is really going to be like.

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That I was a success is not apparent now; that I would be a success was not apparent then. Within

That I was a success is not apparent now; that I would be a success was not apparent then.

Perfume should tell a story – the story of who you are, who you might be, perhaps even of who you fear becoming . . . all of these things are possible. It's a very intimate element of a woman, just like her signature or the sound of her voice. And it conveys feelings and states of being that have no name, no language. Its very ambiguity makes it truer than words because, unlike words, it can't be manipulated or misunderstood.

He didn't know what he wanted. He only knew what he didn't want.

We were right for each other once. Whether we always will be, that's anyone's guess.

We drove past a large creature with numerous limbs and eyes, then even as I watched, a crack appeared down its center. As it divided itself, I realized it had been, all along, two separate people – a runner and a dog walk woman – moving in opposite directions who for an instant happened to be passing one another. Then came a store with a sign saying 'Eat In Take Out' and in front of it, a lost baseball cap on the sidewalk.