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Quotes About Uncertainty

Symington hadn't been
~ Jennifer Ashley
Moistening her lips, she asked, "That's what this is all about? Bringing me here?" His hesitation was so slight she almost missed it. "It could be. Probably is, after all." "You still want to seduce me." "I want whatever you can give me," he murmured against her ear. "Where we go from here may depend on what I can give you.
~ Jennifer Blake
The only thing I knew for sure at that moment was that David would be back.If I was gone when that happened, would he leave again? For good? David, do you know that's a chance I can't take?
~ Jennifer Castle
Words fail me sometimes. I have read most every word in the Webster's International Dictionary of the English Language, but I still have trouble making them come when I want them to. Right now I want a word that describes the feeling you get – a cold sick feeling deep down inside – when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don't want it to, but you can't stop it. And you know you will never be the same again.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
The thing is, you can't ever really know how rotten someone will turn out to be.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
I want to have hope, I can't help it, but I'm almost afraid to," Serafina
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Because I don't care anymore, Ms. Beezemeyer, I want to say. Not about Amade Malherbeau, my classes, college or much of anything. Because the gray world I've managed to live in for the past two years has started to turn black around the edges.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
So, besides Ava being lost in a swamp full of homicidal maniacs, and Astrid swimming off to meet the king of homicidal maniacs, what other insurmountable problems are we facing tonight? - Sera
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Because nothing is more dangerous than hope
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Mirror, mirror on the wall... who will bring about my fall?
~ Jennifer Donnelly
I'll give her the chance to change the path she is on. The chance to make her own path." "Fool," said the crone. "You understand nothing of mortals. We Fates map out their lives because they wish it. Mortals do not like uncertainty. They do not like change. Change is frightening. Change is painful." "Change is a kiss in the dark. A rose in the snow. A wild road on a windy night." Chance countered.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
when a Chinese wished you ill, he would tell you, "May you live in interesting times.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
You have no idea how the story ends. You're not its author.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
It does not look good. Then again, few things do in the dead of night. The small dark hours are the undoing of many. Candlelight throws shadows on the walls of our souls, shadows that turn a mouse into a monster, a downturn into disaster.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Mortals do not like uncertainty. They do not like change. Change is frightening. Change is painful." Excerpt From Stepsister
~ Jennifer Donnelly
A los mortales no les gusta la incertidumbre. No les gusta el cambio. El cambio da miedo. El cambio es doloroso. -El cambio es un beso en la oscuridad. Una rosa en la nieve. Un camino del bosque en una noche ventosa.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
They wait. For what? They do not know. But they can feel it coming. Splashed by carriage wheels, they feel it. Outside cafes, looking in, they feel it. At night, in their narrow beds, they feel it. Counting the days snubs and mocks, they feel it. And it fires them.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
it safe?" Sophie asked, looking around uncertainly. Arno snorted. "Safer than death?
~ Jennifer Donnelly
I should have run away from you and started college and gone on without you. But I would always have regretted it if I didn't give this a shot. - Tiffany
~ Jennifer Echols
When I'm with you," he began again, "it's like… I still don't feel normal. But I can see normal at twelve o'clock on the horizon." He pointed past me, through the windshield of an imaginary airplane. "At least I know normal is still out there. I've spent the last three months not sure of that at all.
~ Jennifer Echols
The Evil Twin was either Tracey or Casey Reardon. I wasn't sure which one, and no one else seemed to either. All we knew for sure was that the twins were evil. Or, one of them was evil and the other just looked the same.
~ Jennifer Echols
I guess' will get you killed.
~ Jennifer Echols
Sometimes I imagine myself looking back on right now and I think like where will I be standing when I look back Will right now look like the beginning of a great life or... or what
~ Jennifer Egan
There are things you're just positive will happen to you. Then there's that second when you realize, Jesus Christ. Maybe they won't.
~ Jennifer Egan