Quotes About Uncertainty

The worst can always be true

I've been in-country a day and here's what I think: I'm going to die over here.

What happened to you if you hoped too hard for the best and got the worst? Was it better not to hope at all, to prepare?

All anyone could talk about was the gloomy future and the shocking present.

I let the bad times overwhelm me, and I ran. It wasn't until I'd gone too far to turn back that I remembered how much I loved your father, and by then it was too late. For all these years, I've been left wondering, 'What if?' " What if?

Time and again, she had returned to God, pleading for help, promising her faith. She wanted to believe that she was neither alone nor in charge, but rather that her life was unfolding according to His plan, even if she couldn't see it. Now, though, such hope felt as slight and bendable as tin.

don't believe in love. Or marriage.

I don't know the right thing to do anymore. I want to protect Sophie and keep her safe, but what good is safety if she has to grow up in a world where people disappear without a trace because they pray to a different God?

Had she made a mistake in bringing them here? They'd given up everything they'd known and loved to start over here, but what if there was no new beginning here? What if it was just the same hardship and hunger they'd left behind? Or worse?

If we weren't here—hiding in a safe house—if the world weren't ripping itself apart, if this was just an ordinary day in an ordinary world, would you want there to be an us, Gaëtan?

like a kid in a time-out, looking terrified. Crystal's

on a cough, but of course there was

The trick was to keep your balance. You couldn't control the direction of your family any more than you

could stop the continental shelf from breaking apart. All you could do was hold on for the ride.

What's more serious than a kiss on the brink of war?

Now, though, she wondered what her life could possibly be. She couldn't go back to who she'd been, but how could she go forward

Still, hope was a dangerous thing. It grew like a field of wildflowers within Eva, blossoming in all the spaces that had been filled with darkness and despair, until she began to believe with all her heart in the possibility that Rémy might have lived through the war after all.

I am not sure about anything. But if we don't have hope, we don't have anything.

Sometimes, God's plans are different from ours, and it's impossible to know why,

But you never know what will happen tomorrow, or the next day. One day, one week, one month can change everything.

What has happened to us? She asked. To this country? The world has gone mad, Jacob murmured.

I'm very wary of trust, you see.

So he watches me. I watch him. And I do not know who will win.

Part of the adventure in life is not always knowing what's going to happen next, and the next part may be grander than your original plan. The key to enjoying the journey is being open to the unknown.