Quotes About Uncertainty

That's why they say 'falling in love' and not something like 'floating toward love.' Falling is scary.

questions that had begun to creep into her thoughts whenever they we're together. When would he be ready? Would he ever be ready? And of course, why he wasn't ready?

You think you know me, but I'm not sure that even I know who I am anymore.

What can you do when you're condemned to a place where every choice seems wrong - even the one you promised your lover you'd make?

his wartime experience had taught him to trust his instincts, even though he'd never been sure where they'd come from.

All I know is that I feel in love with you, and I've never been more frightened about anything in my entire life.

For some reason, it didn't feel right. Victor's words seemed to confirm that. There was another reason that he'd come here. Falling in love with Elizabeth might have been part of it. But that wasn't all. Something else was coming. There is more.

How do you explain something that you can't even understand yourself?

Theresa, remember - you've got nothing to lose. The worst that could possibly happen is that you fly home in a couple of days. That's all. You're not going on a quest to search for a tribe of cannibals. You're just going to find out if your curiosity was warranted.

No, I mean with us. Do you think we would have made it? It took a moment for her to answer. I don't know, Noah. I really don't, and you don't either. We're not the same people we were then. We've changed. Both of us. She paused. He didn't respond, and in the silence she looked towards the creek. She went on. But yes, Noah, I think we would have. At least, I'd like to think we would have.

She paused, as if trying to organize her chaotic thoughts. "I didn't want to fall in love with anyone," she said. "I wasn't ready for that. I've been through that once, and afterwards I was a mess. I know it's different, but you'll be leaving in just a few days and all this will be over… and I'll be a mess again.

Hope might leave me crushed in the end, but losing all hope somehow seemed even worse. I

How can you explain something that you cant even understand yourself

It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee, a sort of wager on my part.

I think," she said, "that the point is that people rarely understand that nothing is ever exactly what you think it will be.

It wasn't a question of if a bull rider got injured, but rather when and how badly.

Y además—prosiguió él–, no estoy seguro de que quiera ser tu amigo. —¿Por qué no? —Porque deseo algo más.

Siempre hay un momento, justo antes de empezar a leer, en el que el corazón me da un vuelco y me pregunto: «Sera hoy?». No lo se, de hecho nunca lo se de antemano, aunque en el fondo eso tampoco importa. Es la posibilidad lo que me mantiene con esperanza, no la garantía; es como una apuesta que me hago a mi mismo. Y a pesar de que quizás alguien me llame loco o soñador, creo que en la vida todo es posible.

For when it comes, she is gone, and sometimes I wonder whether she and I will ever love again.

with the possibility that he might never

Why did fate always seem to conspire against us?" she asked, turning to look at him over her shoulder. "Do you think there's a greater plan at work, one we can't even fathom?

It was any combination of a thousand things, she told herself, but it wasn't love. And

She wasn't fantasy anymore. But something real, something he couldn't imagine living without, and he crossed his arms, as if bracing himself from the possibility that all this might slip away.

I spent much of that year trying to imagine a future distorted by war.