Quotes About Uncertainty

I believe,' he thought. 'I have faith.' He jaunted again and failed again. 'Faith in what?' he asked himself, adrift in limbo. 'Faith in faith,' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief.

The truth frightens people because it isn't stable. It shifts every day.

You watch teenage girls and feel shivers up and down your arms -- those poor creatures don't know the first thing about time or agony or the price they're going to have to pay for just about everything.

We never know the end of the story until we get there.

I wasn't quite as certain that I knew her soul. When it came right down to it, I wasn't sure she knew me either.

She's beginning to wonder if perhaps she's haunting herself.

Although I am no longer caught in the past, the future seems like a ridiculous thing to me. Try to catch it, hold it in your hand. It disappears every time.

she wonders if she has something other people don't. Intuition or hope -- she wouldn't know what to call it.

I never once stopped to consider that what you are given can also be taken away.

She wishes nightmares were all that kept her awake. She cannot tell which disturbs here more, the future or the past.

Was it fate?" she asked. "Do we care?" he answered.

Time wasn't the same anymore. Doors were slamming shut before we even knew they'd been opened. Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.

Fate could twist you around and around if you weren't careful. Just when you thought you knew where you were headed, you'd wind up in the opposite direction, or flattened against a wall.

You can get addicted to trouble if you're not careful.

Amazing where your life can deposit you before you know it. One, two, three, and you're on a completely different road than the one you'd always expected to be on at this point in your life. There is no compass when such things happen, no rules and no maps to guide you, and no one who cares if the sun is glaring or if the asphalt is melting beneath your tires.

But Sally didn't have the heart to fight back. She wore dark clothes and tried not to be noticed. She pretended she wasn't smart and never raised her hand in class. She disguised her own nature so well that after a while she grew uncertain of her own abilities.

The truth frightens people because it isn't stable. It shifts every day. If you'd prefer to remain in the dark, I would understand.

Love had to happen without any certainty, the ultimate leap of faith.

I should have begun to worry then, for as fortune comes to you, so does it slip away.

One day she would surely vanish altogether, and there was no way to stop her. She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future

Life was like a book, Jet thought, but one you would never finish. You would never know how people would wind up; the good often suffered and the wicked prospered and there was no explanation for the way in which fate was meted out as there was in novels.

I have wondered all my life what I am made of, if there is straw inside of me, or a beating heart, or if I simply burned for all I did not have.

Love is not always under our control

Pete wondered if the endings of things gathered in the corners of a room, hanging down like a spider's web, waiting.