Quotes About Uncertainty

As you may have guessed already, Peter had a soul that was always telling itself lies. When he was frightened, his soul told itself, I'm not frightened. And when something mattered that he couldn't control, Peter's soul told itself, it doesn't matter. So while I trained my ears and tired to listen hard to him, I couldn't always make out where he was, or what he felt. And so each time he let Wendy come a little closer, I didn't see what it meant, or how it would end.

You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road, and even as you choose one gritty path you've got your eyes on the other the whole time, certain that you're making a mistake.

Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs - you have those long, long seconds to know that you are going to be hurt, and badly?

Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we look at ourselves and wonder who we are and how we got that way. Only one thing about change remains constant...it is always painful

Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed--sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and worst of all, you never know which of the two it's going to be.

But will you miss me? More importantly - will I miss you? Does either one of us really want to hear the answer to that question?

You know how sometimes, your life is so perfect you're afraid for the next moment, because it couldn't possibly be quite as good? That's what it felt like.

Torn between fear and something that resembled love, she wrestled with questions she never dreamed she would face: How could she leave? Then again, how could she stay?

He began to trace a pattern on the table with the nail of his thumb. She kept saying she wanted to keep things exactly the way they were, and that she wished she could stop everything from changing. She got really nervous, like, talking about the future. She once told me that she could see herself now, and she could also see the kind of life she wanted to have - kids, husband, suburbs, you know - but she couldn't figure out how to get from point A to point B.

And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

if i'm going to fuck up my life, does it really matter which way i do it?.

All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down.

You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across?

Life isn't nearly as stable as we want it to be.

We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.

The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.

This is just my way of pointing out that we people who leap without looking are not stupid. We know damn well we might be headed for a fall. But we also know that, sometimes, it's the only way out.

What's worse ...? The devil you don't know ... or the devil you do?

If you want to see God laugh, make a plan.

You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.

You can't plan your life, Finn,' I say quietly, 'Because then you have a plan. Not a life.

She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.

If you choose to go looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.

If it's us, she whispered, how come you get to decide? When he didn't answer - couldn't answer - she turned and stared out the front window. As it turned out, they were still in the parking lot. They hadn't gotten anywhere at all.