Quotes About Doubt

I don't think anyone would think that an ellipsis represents doubt or anything. I think it's more, you know, hinting at the future. What lies ahead.

I spent a lot of time looking at that picture. Wondering what I'd think of that girl, if I was someone else, seeing how easily she sits in her boyfriend's lap, laughing, with his arms around her. I would have thought her life was perfect, the way I once thought Cass's was. It was too easy, I was learning, to just assume things.

A second later, when he looked up at me, we were face to face, and again, even under these circumstances, I was struck by how good looking he was, in that accidental, doesn't-even-know-it kind of way. Which only made it worse. Or better. Or whatever. Yup, he said, as if there'd been any doubt, you're in there, all right. I was warned, too,I told him, as he stood up. I just saw that sculpture, and I got distracted. The sculpture? He looked at it, then at me. Oh, right. Because you know it.

How do you even begin to return to someone, much less convince them to do the same for you? I had no idea. More than ever, though, right then I had to believe the answer would just come to me.

I wondered if it was really because he cared about me, or if now I was just another challenge.

What if even if I had told, or did tell, nobody believed me? Or even worse, blamed me for it?

You don't know that. He made a face, doubting this. You don't. You have your whole life ahead of you. Maybe, he said. But even that's not long to be the person she deserves.

I turned and looked into the gas station, where Wes was now paying, as the man who'd driven us looked on. That's too bad, I said. It's okay, though, she assured me. Someday I'll show you an extraordinary boy, Macy. They do exist. You just have to believe me. Don't worry, I said. I do.

If this was my instinct talking, I didn"t want to hear what it was saying.

At times, I found myself questioning his very existence, even though I knew I had, in fact, spotted him, with my own eyes.

She was looking right at me, shaking her head, and I told myself she was wrong, so wrong, even as she spoke. "You're a goner.

It took a lot to have hope in this world where so little evidence of it existed.

how when nothing made sense and hadn't for ages, you just have to grab onto anything you feel sure of.

sometimes even when I know that you're lying, I still almost believe you.

Like maybe it's forever, maybe it's not

Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can't fully understand.

the truth is, nothing is guaranteed.

It's interesting said Jack. What is? You believe in God. he said. You just don't believe that God is good.

No, I don't think poems will save us. And yet, and yet

again, right? But how will they know to save us? Hmm. Yopopa's supposedly a genius. That's probably

Do you think she's still here?" Jonah asks.

He knew he was sounding a little Holden Caulfield-esque calling everyone a phony, but he really did think everyone was a phony.

I hesitate. I feel like we forgot something. But what?

Like a lot of once devout people who have lost their faith, I had holes the size of heaven and hell in my head and in my heart.