Quotes About Uncertainty

Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers.

You know someone for a while and then one day a hole opens underneath them, and they fall out of your world.

It was something... the way a person's life picked up speed, the way a life was like a bullet aimed at one final target, impossible to slow or turn aside, and like the bullet, you were ignorant of what you were going to hit, would never know anything except the rush and the impact.

one teebs? You mean tablespoon?" "I don't know.

It'll always bother you, wondering what you missed out on," Merrin said now. "That's how men are. I'm just being practical. I'm not waiting to get married to you so I can fight through your midlife affair with our babysitter. I'm not going to be the reason for your regrets.

Sometimes Wayne felt that the world had been sliding apart beneath his feet for years. He was still waiting for it to pull him down, to bury him at last.

Later, she thought, not imagining that there wouldn't be a later. Not for Father Storey.

I feel like most folks want a book they feel like they have time to finish. You don't want to start A Game of Thrones when you might catch fire all of a sudden. There's something horribly unfair about dying in the middle of a good story, before you have a chance to see how it all comes out.

You get an astronaut's life whether you want it or not. Leave it all behind for a world you know nothing about.

It's about the terror of an ordinary life" or "It's the story of a man shipwrecked in his own mind." But

There's something horribly unfair about dying in the middle of a good story, before you have a chance to see how it all comes out. Of course, I suppose everyone always dies in the middle of a good story, in a sense. Your own story. Or the story of your children. Or your grandchildren.

I was so scared of doing the wrong thing I hardly ever did the right thing." Vic

For all we know, we might've already slipped into the future without noticing it.

You don't want to start A Game of Thrones when you might catch fire all of a sudden.

You don't want to start A Game of Thrones when you might catch fire all of a sudden. There's something horribly unfair about dying in the middle of a good story, before you have a chance to see how it all comes out. Of course, I suppose everyone always dies in the middle of a good story, in a sense. Your own story. Or the story of your children. Or your grandchildren. Death is a raw deal for narrative junkies.

You get an astronaut's life whether you want it or not. Leave it all behind for a world you know nothing about. That's just the deal.   I

The most important things in your life are almost always impossible to predict.

It is the strain of walking around the world-down the street, riding city buses and elevators, moving from place to place to place-and not knowing who might want to destroy you, who might like to fill your heart with poison, who might rob you and stab you, who might stand above you in the dark with a tarantula.

The last four days where everything has finally made some sense. And why is she so ready to throw this away? Because. Because eventually every relationship she's been in has turned to shit. Eventually she ends up screwing everything up. So maybe it's better to leave now before people's feelings get hurt.

Contemplating suicide-- or a graduate degree

the only thing you are sure of is that you aren't sure of anything any more.

Deep down I think I may be just like everyone else. And do you know what, Harry?" "No sir." "That bothers me.

I'm scared," he said. "Dad's face—" "Listen to me," Kale said. "That wasn't Dad." Trig stared at him. "That was something else. We know what Dad was like.

I have nightmares about it now. I probably will for months. And I think …" She shook her head. "… what if it isn't over? What if the Sickness that Darth Scabrous created … got out somehow?