Quotes About Uncertainty

Ani saw herself cleary in the moment, as a face in darkness gains sudden dimensions in a flash of lightning- -a young girl, a silly thing, a lapdog. a broken mare. She did as she was told. She rarely gave thought to her duties or spent deep hours or acted alone. She realized she would never have been capable of taking her mother's place. That realization did not bring relief. Instead, the thought of the journey and her unknown future chilled her skin and pricked her stomach with dread.

Nothing is quite right, or everything would be quite boring.

It's hopeless, trying to recruit a stranger to help me find someone who's a stranger to him. But then again, we are all strangers to ourselves, caught up in the monotony of daily life, stuck in our routines, never really stopping to think about what will happen to us if we fall off track.

He went to the light switch by the door and flicked it off. When he turned, she glowed in the golden light from the space heater, and the shadow over her shoulders on the wall seemed a looming, black-cloaked figure. An ancient, mythical harbinger of doom and destruction. He blinked. It turned into a pattern of blocked light again. Jesus, what the hell was that about? He was rattled, jittery, scared half to death. But he could no more say no to this girl than he could stop breathing.

I'm just afraid if I get used to leaning on you and you decide to walk away, I'll... fall over.

Bobby stopped laughing and craned his head to look up at her. "I hope it's a boy." "So does your Uncle Kevin." "I'm sick of being the smallest boy. We need another one so I have somebody to pick on, too." "Oh…great." It was scary to think her baby was going to be the low man on the totem pole of trickle-down family dynamics.

I'm not sure what there is to say. Everything? Or nothing.

The people are in need of a dose of terror. They must feel that they have no choice, can effect no change, or we will have more change than we currently know how to handle.:

Credo che tuo zio Tulman abbia perso il suo equilibrio mentale.

Life is like a bowl of spaghetti. Every once in a while, you get a meatball.

It looks bleak right now, but that is what faith is about.

Holy Maker of all, I'm setting out on the task to which You've called me. But I'm small and afraid. I need to hear Your voice again. I want to be sure of my next step.

To not know is then part of the gift you offer Him. It is where your obedience is tested.

We live in the in-between space—between when all that was right went wrong, and when all that is wrong will be made right again.

Sometimes I don't see exactly how to go on doing this.

I guess that's how people go on, without knowing how.

I am falling, and I do not feel that there are rocks, below, I think I may go on falling, like my own flesh, for the rest of my life

The last thing she needed was to fall for someone again. Before the move from Denver, she'd had her first serious boyfriend. Millicent had gone along on every one of their dates, suddenly determined to play chaperone. Uncle Pat's decision to move came just as the relationship was heating up Tara sagged. Why bother falling for another guy? It would hurt too much when Uncle Pat pulled up stakes again. My life sucks, she thought.

She was not who she wanted to be. And not only did she not know how to make herself over into someone else, she wasn't even sure who she wanted to become.

Well, that's the lesson, I suppose," Zoe said. "We can never predict who will love us or where we'll feel love in return.

She should leave you. Or you shouldn't leave her. I haven't worked it out yet. But you shouldn't be apart.

Your wedding completely changes the direction of your life, you know, no matter how greatly you desire it. I think that moment of doubt and faintness comes from all those imagined and now impossible futures all pressing in on you at once. It is your last chance to experience them, you see, and they all want to be lived at that moment.

I might be manipulating you to create risk for myself.

I wonder which is worse-the death, not knowing what comes after, or the wedding, when you think you know, but you're wrong.