Quotes About Uncertainty

They look good but I was sick as a dog for eight months and my nipples are still numb." "You're here," I reminded her. "I'm here." She edged nearer, bumping my shoulder with her own. "The question is, for how long?

Those questions you have? Whether he's the one, whether you feel about him the way you should, or whether the relationship is going okay? When you're not sure whether you're in love with someone or not, the answer is not.

Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight.

Maybe I was being too picky. Maybe I didn't want to be close to anyone. Maybe I'd just be the type who couldn't feel love all the way or something. I couldn't tell what was wrong, but what was wrong was that it just wasn't right.

You were supposed to have hope, right? You were supposed to respect its power and hold on. And so I did. I held, and held, and let hope fill me. But as the days went on, it seemed I could be holding for a long, long time. Hope could be the most powerful thing or the most useless

Or so we don't think about how we're just vulnerable specks trying to survive on a violent, tumultuous planet, at the mercy of hurricanes and volcanoes and asteroids and terrorists and disease and a million other things. We concentrate on having little thoughts so we don't have BIG THOUGHTS. . . . You've got to ignore the one big truth - life is fatal.

The scariest part of forever is that nothing is.

Maybe sometimes you just feel like everything can be taken from you all at once.

Fate is a shape-shifter. It is the kindest and most generous entity imaginable, laying out more goodness than a person deserves, and then it shrinks and curls and forms into something grotesque. You think something is one thing, but then it´s another.

Love seems to be something to approach with caution, as if you'd come across a wrapped box in the middle of the street and have no idea what it contains.

You could try and understand people, you could read books and understand words and concepts and ideas, but you could never understand enough or have enough knowledge to keep away the surprises that both fate and human beings had in store.

I don't know why we do it. But sometimes we just swim straight for the net.

She survived something big, and when you survive something big, you are always, always aware that next time you might not.

Still, past assholes could make a person feel skittish. You had to be careful. It could all suddenly be different than you thought it was. A big possible mistake could be hidden anywhere, ready to blow up everything, same as stepping on a land mine.

It was strange to have those papers signed. Like any big project or crisis that takes every waking and non-waking moment in your life, it was odd to have it concluded. A move, a college degree, a wedding--something long-strived-for is completed, whatever the outcome, and there is a huge space where it all once was. All that open time now, and a continuing nagging sense that there's something you need to be doing.

He's going for wisdom but the real wisdom is knowing there sometimes isn't any.

All those maybes are just hope looking for a place to land.

Turned up or turned down, the feeling is permanent. She survived something big, and when you survive something big, you are always, always aware that next time you might not.

You never know what a day will bring, which is both the good news and band news of life.

You never know what a day will bring, which is both the good news and the bad news of life.

Endings and beginnings sit so close to each other that it's sometimes impossible to tell which is which.

Sometimes a decision is not one monumental event, but many small, slightly unsteady ones.

Those are such beautiful words aren't they? Happy ending?" Lilly says. They are. They so are. But after all she's seen, Nash doesn't know if she believes in those particular words. She believes in something intricate and thorny, she thinks then. What she believes is that the story goes on.

but love is always a risk. Life is. You could step into the street and get hit by a car, but then again, you could step into the street and get to the other side.