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Quotes About Uncertainty

Sometimes, life leaves you without directions, without guideposts or signs. When this happens, you just have to pick a direction and run like hell.
~ Maureen Johnson
Last things were so strange. Most people had no control over of what their last acts would be.
~ Maureen Johnson
Sometimes I feel like I've been waiting for someone to tell me when I can be normal again,' she said. 'I keep thinking I'll get a letter. Or a call. When does it happen?' Pete looked like he wanted to walk toward her, but then he fell back against the car. The staring contest between them for almost a minute, and finally Pete exhaled loudly. It's okay,' he said.
~ Maureen Johnson
Well, what now? You have no job. I have no job. Wanna play Jenga?
~ Maureen Johnson
Maybe he understood how terrifying it is to do the thing you meant to do.
~ Maureen Johnson
I felt so alone on that train... a weird, unnatural kind of alone that bore into me. It was feeling just beyond fear and somewhere to the left of sadness.
~ Maureen Johnson
life leaves you without directions, without guideposts or signs. When this happens, you just have to pick a direction and run like hell.
~ Maureen Johnson
I had no idea if he had asked me because he liked me, or if his mom made him (our parents know each other), or because he lost a bet.
~ Maureen Johnson
It was feeling just beyond fear and somewhere to the left of sadness. Tired, but not the kind of tired that sleep fixes. It was dark and gloomy, and yet, it didn't seem that things would get any better if the lights were turned up.
~ Maureen Johnson
Like what?" he said, giving me a sideways glance, slipping in the process. "Saying that they're lucky.
~ Maureen Johnson
It all feels so fake that it seems okay.
~ Maureen Johnson
And then the surface beneath us just went away
~ Maureen Johnson
You know how depression lies? Well anxiety is stupid. I did not just say people with anxiety are stupid. No, no. I mean that anxiety itself is stupid. If you asked anxiety what two plus two is, anxiety will think very hard and say triangle or a bag of Fritos or a commemorative stamp. Because anxiety doesn't know what anything is. It will try to convince you that things that are totally fine are worthy of dread.
~ Maureen Johnson
The spaces were wide and wild. And for the first time since this started, she felt a real sense of the danger here.
~ Maureen Johnson
What you don't realize at the time is that you're not seeing the full picture, You don't think about the fact that things will change. Things always change.
~ Maureen Johnson
Sometimes, it's better not to know.
~ Maureen Johnson
Only he and Yash planned on making an actual career out of comedy, which was not known for being the most stable of livelihoods.
~ Maureen Johnson
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh David said. It was as good a summary of the situation as any. oh, Stevie said. Again, this about summed it up.
~ Maureen Johnson
I think I'm fine. Maybe it hasn't hit yet. Is that bad? It's not bad or good. It just is. That's something you'll find out if you decide to go into this line of work. You have to take things as they are, not how you hear they're supposed to be.
~ Maureen Johnson
We shall sleep on moss for many nights, till the beasts of the body come to tear our body. We have no bed now, save the moss,and no future, save the beasts.
~ Ayn Rand
It was a race he was running now, a race between his rent money and... he did not know the name of the other contestant. Perhaps it was every man whom he passed on the street.
~ Ayn Rand
They used to rush through here, and it was wonderful to watch, it was the hurry of men who knew where they were going and were eager to get there. Now they're hurrying because they are afraid. It's not a purpose that drives them, it's fear.
~ Ayn Rand
The weather seemed afraid to take a stand and clung noncommittally to some sort of road's middle; Board of Directors' weather, she thought.
~ Ayn Rand
They're not going anywhere, they're escaping. And I don't think they know what it is that they want to escape.
~ Ayn Rand