Quotes About Uncertainty

This house feels unfamiliar and disturbingly full of possibilities.

I think I really am back this time, Call, Aaron's voice said. Now what the heck are we going to do?

Kaye watched as he calmed somewhat, thinking that she should stop trying to anticipate what was going to happen next. After all, when you were already in a slippery place, reality-wise, you couldn't afford to assume things would be straight forward from here on in.

I imagine giving up. No more peering through windows, mourning the loss of a life that could never again be mine. No more hopeless desire. No more uncertain future. No more terror.

it cost me something to be the way I am. But I do not know what. And I don't know if I can get it back. I don't even know if I want it.

It's not what you think," Vince said from the mouth of the hall. He didn't turn, so she couldn't even try to interpret his expression. The humor had left his voice, though. "Oh, yeah?" she called after him. "Then why are you leaving?" "Because it's worse.

What does that mean?" The Thistlewitch smiled. "Time will tell. It always does.

Each person seemed to have a destination, but Val was a piece of driftwood, spinning down a river, not even sure in what direction she was moving. But she knew how to make herself spin faster.

I always liked you. I should have said something, but I'm not a good person. I'm not even sure I'm a person at all." "Oh." Surprised, Charlie took his hand and folded her fingers through his. They were surprisingly solid. "You're a person. You're my person." He bent down to bring their clasped hands to his lips.

After all, when you were already in a slippery place, reality-wise, you couldn't afford to assume that things would be straightforward from here on in.

You're going to be okay,' I say. 'You know,' he says, hanging on to me, 'that ought to be reassuring. But when mortals say it, it doesn't mean the same thing as when the Folk do, does it? For you, it's an appeal. A kind of hopeful magic. You say I will be well because you fear I won't be.

No quiero ser un monstruo, pero quizá sea demasiado tarde para poder ser otra cosa.

We're not going to be fine, Tana. We're never going to be fine ever again.

now normal felt fragile, as though she could unravel it all just by teasing out a single string.

There are many things I don't know, but I know a great deal about imprisonment.

The revel will go on, I realize. Everything will go on. But I am not sure that I can.

Only to see Oak, the heir to Elfhame, standing in a clearing. All my memories of him were of a merry young boy. But he'd become tall and rawboned, in the manner of children who have grown suddenly and too fast. When he moved, it was with coltish uncertainty, as though not used to his body. He would be thirteen. And he had no reason to be in my woods.

I feel all around me the closing of a trap, and yet I do not think I am the one who is meant to be caught.

I am no closer to finding a way to get out of here and no clearer on my father's plan. The only thing I am closer to is getting caught.

He might not want to hurt me, but that doesn't mean he won't.

You choose a path without being certain where it leads.

Las tormentas son menos volubles de lo que son, los mares menos caprichosos.

He picked up her purse from where it rested beside her and shook it gently. "In case you were concerned. All just as you left it." She nodded. "Thanks. Although I guess whether I'll ever get to use that marker is pretty up in the air right now." "You should have let me eat her in that parking lot," Gavriel said, raising his eyebrows.

The hardest part was having so much time to think. To have to make his own decisions. To wrestle with the guilt of being alive when by all rights he shouldn't have been. Vince was used to measuring out his life in small moments, never letting himself look much ahead, and never daring to look behind…And now Vince had to make plans if he was going to survive.