Quotes About Uncertainty

If you had to choose, and if you were not allowed to see either ahead of time and had no other information to go on, would you rather fight Mindcrow or Gonadulus?

Nope. No idea.

This is my emergency kit. It contained a roll of duct tape, a spare pair of pants, an envelope with two hundred dollars, two bags of dried fruit, two packages of beef jerky, three bottles of water, a roll of thick shop towels you see mechanics use, a small metal pipe - just right for cracking a skull with - and a fake beard. Look, you never know.

I stared at the thing, blinking, thinking it would reveal itself to be, I don't know, a hot-water heater or something. Then I realized the monster-shaped shadow was, surprisingly, a monster.

In those moments of chaos, everything you thought you could depend on falls away. Everything turns upside down. Heroes turn out to be cowards, and vice versa. Your best-laid plan fails, your most haphazard improvisation saves your life. Friends turn out to be enemies. In the end, Zoey, you can trust nothing. You can only have another plan ready to go. One after another.

CHAPTER 11 By the way . . . Looking back, if I had gone in and seen what was in the toolshed, I would have put a bullet in my own skull one minute later.

I squinted drunkenly into the rearview mirror and tried in vain to find the headlights of the black truck that was chasing us, but I actually wasn't sure if its drivers needed headlights to see or if they even had eyes. I also wasn't sure it was a truck, or if it was black, or if we were being pursued at all. It was definitely raining, though.

There's something I don't trust about the way she exploded and then came back from the dead like that.

Something was off, I knew right then. Lingering in the back of my mind, like a kid in the last row of the classroom with his hand up.

A ghost sighting is usually nothing more than your brain trying to put a familiar face on something that does not have a face at all.

Franky the Cop let me lead the way outside to the shed, staying a few steps back so that he could have time to shoot me in case I decided to wheel on him with fists of fury.

hope and passion slip through your fingers like sand and in front of you lies a vast stretch of darkness

To be and not to be, that is the quantum question

The Hall Of Fame Is Built On Quicksand

You never know whether you've already experienced your greatest moment or your worst

The only "right" answer is one that can be questioned.

2 + 2 = 5: the sum of all fears

Fate is by far the greatest mystery of all.

Life is too uncertain... You must seize happiness where you find it.

I hesitated for all the right reasons. And I accepted for all the wrong ones.

I suppose it is quite certain he is dead?" I asked faintly. "There are bits of him stuck to your shoe," he remarked, rather unhelpfully.

A good wet weep is always just the thing. You will feel better soon. Not just yet, but soon. And when you do, enjoy it. Life is too uncertain, my dear. You must seize happiness where you find it.

Of course, I did not realize it at the time, but it was to be nothing like a year before I came home again. I did not know when I would see Brisbane again, but I knew that I would. Someday. And indeed I did. That is when we found the body in the chapel. But that is a tale for another time.

For just these few hours, I was on the tightrope again, balanced precariously between glory and disaster, and the thrill of it coursed through me with far more effect than the glittering wine.