Quotes About Uncertainty

He had told her a few weeks ago that being this age was like walking among snipers, that people he cared about were being picked off and there was nothing you could do and no way of telling who was next.

That's life. We don't know what will happen. Which is why we have to take our chances while we can. And...I think this might be yours.

It was a terrible thing to discover you no longer wanted the life that stretched ahead of you.

Cand oamenii pe care ii iubim mor tineri este ca si cum am primi un semnal care ne aminteste ca nimic nu este garantat, ca aveam datoria sa profitam la maximum de ceea ce avem. Am sentimentul ca, in sfarsit, am inteles asta.

den Duft durch ihr Haar ein und lässt sich ablenken, als sie ihm die Arme um den Nacken legt und ihn zu sich herunterzieht. «Fahren wir dieses Wochenende wirklich zusammen weg?» Widerstrebend macht er sich von ihr los. «Kommt darauf an, wie der Deal läuft. Zurzeit hängt alles ein bisschen in der Luft. Es kann immer noch sein, dass ich nach New York

I don't really know what I'm hoping for, but all suggestions gratefully received.

To commit to Sam was to commit to the likelihood of more loss.

and for the first time since I had embarked upon my plan, I felt properly despondent.

Nie wiemy, co b?dzie. I w?a?nie dlatego musimy korzysta? z mo?liwo?ci, które mamy.

I want to tell him that I don't know what I feel. I want him but I'm frightened to want him. I don't want my happiness to be entirely dependent on somebody else's, to be a hostage to fortunes I cannot control.

what has happened to him—and to Andrea—has left her feeling like the earth can shift under your feet without a moment's notice so that nothing in the world, no happiness, feels secure.

His stomach, a packed elevator, began a slow descent toward his feet.

writing is perilous, as you can't always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.

hinted at his decision. I reread my own e-mail, wondering if perhaps I had sounded off-putting, too bold, too assertive, whether I had conveyed my own strength of feeling. I loved Sam. I wanted him with me. Did he understand how much? But having issued the most enormous of ultimata it

Even thinking about heading up there again made my heart thump harder; it took nothing for me to recall that sense of the world disappearing from beneath me, like a rug pulled from under my feet.

You never know what will happen, when you fall from a great height.

Es gribu teikt, ka ?sti nezinu, ko j?tu. Ka gribu vi?u, bet baidos. Es nev?los, lai mana laime b?tu atkar?ga no k?da cita, negribu b?t ??lniece tam, ko nesp?ju kontrol?t.

Hey," he's saying softly, "hey . . . this isn't like you." How would you know? she thinks. Nobody knows what is like me. I'm not even sure I know.

I was living in a city whose rules I didn't entirely understand, with no permanent address, and I had failed in pretty much every job I had ever held.

Crees que sabes lo que te espera —una noche horrible delante de la televisión, bebiendo en un bar, escondiéndote de tu pasado— y, de repente, te desvías del camino y acabas en un destino que no sabías que estuviese allí.

Eu tinha vinte e seis anos e não sabia muito bem quem era.

I want to tell him then. I want to tell him that I don't know what I feel. I want him but I'm frightened to want him. I don't want my happiness to be entirely dependent on somebody else's, to be a hostage to fortunes I cannot control.

Quiero decírselo. Quiero decirle qué no sé que es lo que siento. Le deseo pero me da miedo desearle. No quiero que mi felicidad dependa enteramente de otra persona, ser rehén de destinos que no puedo controlar.

I'm not sure I'm doing it very well.