Quotes About Uncertainty

I'm the worst at making decisions!

I am really happy here in Manchester and we will just see what happens in the future.

In the marathon anything can happen.

Of course I'm going to marry, but I don't know when.

Nobody knows who hasn't been there." To war.

I was hopeful of his answer, or fearful of it. The answer was a slight shrug.

A fickle heart is the only constant in this world

Don't interrupt,' one of the boys said. 'He'll lose his life.' Seeing it was a matter of life and death, Sophie and Michael backed toward the door. But Howl, quite unperturbed at killing his nephew, strode over to the wall and pulled the boxes up by the roots.

Then there you are, then. The day Howl forgets to do that will be the day I believe he's really in love, and not before. Michael to Sophie about wether or not Howl is really in love with Lettie. pg, 170

She had a silly impulse to add, But she was alive an hour ago! And she stopped herself, because death is like that: people are alive until they die.

I don't know, Your Majesty. He's a mess.

Honestly, David, sometimes when they all start I don't know whether to scream or just walk out into the sunset. [...] - Why don't you do both? Walk into the sunset screaming?

Every day our life was full of thoughts of the horrible present, and even our own death.

Inevitably, fear raided everyone's mood. But as zookeepers, the Zabínskis understood both vigilance and predators; in a swamp of vipers, one planned every footstep. Shaped by the gravity of wartime, it wasn't always clear who or what could be considered outside or inside, loyal or turncoat, predator or prey.

you feeling?" "Not—We're

It is time to venture out of the comforting land of either/or opposites and travel into the uncertain territory of both/and.

She thought she would do something with them someday, although she could not have said what and in fact she never did.

It was sublime—and the sublime is not to be trusted.

I was in a kind of no-man's-land, a place between places. The mind plays all sorts of tricks, gets up to all kinds of things while we ourselves are slumbering in a white zone that looks for all the world like inattention to the onlooker.

I pushed my pile of papers to one side, stroked Shadow and stared into the fire, longing for the comfort of a story where everything had been planned well in advance, where the confusion of the middle was invented only for my enjoyment, and where I could measure how far away the solution was by feeling the thickness of pages still to come. I had no idea how many pages it would take to complete the story of Emmeline and Adeline, nor even whether there would be time to complete it.

holding up a single picture and studying it with a frown. She's seen a ghost

She had been able to bear not knowing a thing when she could be sure that God knew, but now...

Gawd, he thought furiously, he hadn't expected it to be like this. Just a lousy walk down the yard to give a carrot to the gangly chestnut. Guilt and fear and treachery. They bypassed his sneering mind and erupted through his nerves instead.

ones. I could see that I would be inevitably eased out, and not by doubt but by concern.