Quotes About Uncertainty

It's frightening to have a choice like this in front of me, a choice that changes all future choices.

He continues looking at me in this strange way, as though he's never seen me before or as though he thought he'd never see me again.

He is wearing his golden armour again, the boy who'd been my friend disappearing into a man I don't know.

When I wipe off a silver mirror with my hand and see myself dressed in a dead faerie's clothes, a shudder goes through me. Suddenly, I do not know why I am here in this place. I am not sure of Locke's intentions.

That's not how I'd thought of myself, as a runaway. I was someone with nowhere to go. Waiting until I was older. Or less afraid. Or more powerful.

no one chooses a future. You choose a path without being certain where it leads. Choose one way and a monster rends your flesh. Choose another and your heart turns to stone, or fire, or glass.

what's so great about lying is the not knowing.

I am not yet in pain. But I do not doubt that I will be.

I don't know what I want.' The words come out a whisper, too true by half. 'Destruction and ruin,' she says with a clack of her tongue. 'I can practically smell it on you.

Choose a future... But no one chooses a future. You choose a path without being certain where it leads.

We are getting older and things are changing. We are changing. And as eager as I am for it, I am also afraid.

You're no killer.' He has no idea what I am. Maybe I don't know, either. Maybe I never let myself find out.

As I gaze at him now, stretched out on my bed, I feel more off balance than ever.

And yours is to throw yourself into the mouth of the lion and hope it doesn't like your savor

The lady or the tiger? My lady, the tiger.

Fear is terrible, but the combination of hope and fear is worse.

Cardan's clothes are disarranged from crawling under tables or being captured and tied, and his infamous tail is showing under the white lawn of his shirt. It it slim, nearly hairless, with a tuft of black fur at the tip. As I watch, the tail forms one wavering curve after another snaking back and forth, betraying his cool face, telling its own story of uncertainty and fear. I can see why he hides that thing away.

There is always something to lose.

Worrying was interest paid on a debt that might never come due.

May you live in interesting times. She thought maybe it was a Chinese curse.

Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.

Don't spend your whole life waiting for someday to come," he'd told Gigi on that trip. "You never know when you're going to run out of time.

Too often, we conclude in terms of the known, that which is not yet known.

Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.