Quotes About Uncertainty

Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank—but that's not the same thing. —Joseph Conrad

At any rate, as Uncle Ray once explained to him, if you examined the language, the concluding lines of the kaddish might have been interpreted as a wish that God and everyone else would just, for once, leave the speaker and all his fellow Jews alone.

But what if he's lost?" my grandmother said for the thousandth or millionth time. "He isn't lost," Uncle Ray said, issuing the finding that ultimately prevailed in the family Talmud. "He knows where he is.

You have a decision to make and right now too little information for making it." By chance or instinct, she had hit on the type of reasoning that could move my grandfather

Out of the blue and into the black is what they called going into a tunnel. Each one was a black echo. Nothing but death in there. But, still, they went.

Trust no one. You may be working with the last honest cop in Mexicali, but why bet your life on it?

He called them human tumbleweeds moving with the winds of fate.

human tumbleweeds moving with the winds of fate.

felt confusion ambush him. He didn't know

anticipated doing, anyway. But for now he was

I do love you, Harry. I want to try to keep that alive because it's one of the best things about my life. One of the best things I know. I know it will be hard. But that might make it all the better. Who knows?

for the first time in a long time Ballard thought she might lose her job. And for the first time in a long time she thought that might not be so bad.

Ultimately, Bosch was confounded

Out of the blue and into the black is what they called going into a tunnel. Each one was a black echo. Nothing but death in there. But, still, they went. Bosch

We are all circling the drain, he thought. Some are closer to the black hole than others;

decírselo tú? No estoy segura de querer entrar ahí. —Claro, Cassie, iré a decírselo ahora mismo.

no longer tell if he was upset by being so far

you find the one that you think fits, then grab on for dear life. Bosch didn't know if she was the one, but for the moment he held on with everything he had left.

I guess. I don't remember his name but it

We are all circling the drain, he thought. Some are closer to the black hole than others. Some will see it coming and some will have no clue when the undertow of the whirlpool grabs them and pulls them down into darkness forever.

Looks like it,' Winston said.

You can come in and you can lose the mask. I haven't got the vax yet but I'll risk it. And

Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really dropped anchor. It was a transient place. People drawn by the dream, people running from the nightmare. Twelve million people and all of them ready to make a break for it if necessary. Figuratively, literally, metaphorically— any way you want to look at it— everybody in L.A. keeps a bag packed. Just in case.

Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.