Quotes About Uncertainty

Hasta esa noche había sido tan feliz, claro que lo habían visto raro las últimas semanas; no raro, mejor distraído, mirando el aire como si viera cosas.

La vida es una sala de espera –dijo el señor calvo, pisando el cigarrillo con mucho cuidado

Por qué no aceptar lo que estaba ocurriendo sin pretender explicarlo, sin sentar las nociones de orden y de desorden

E se corria a oitenta quilômetros por hora em direção às luzes que cresciam pouco a pouco, sem que já se soubesse bem para que tanta pressa, por que essa correria na noite entre automóveis desconhecidos onde ninguém sabia nada sobre os outros, onde todos olhavam fixamente para a frente, exclusivamente para a frente.

para pessoas como ela, o mistério começava exatamente com a explicação.

La realidad se ha difuminado y, en su lugar, ha surgido otra en la que el tiempo corre sin ningún control.

Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.

If I've changed, I've changed." "Have you really changed, or are you only making a show?" "Making a show?" "Yes." "...I don't really know.

but once you start doubting,it's hard to know what to believe.

You were sixteen years old and you were messed up and alone like a motherfucker. You were also convinced - like totally utterly convinced - that the world was going to blow itself to pieces.

Nilda is watching the ground as though she's afraid she might fall. My heart is beating and I think, We could do anything. We could marry. We could drive off to the West Coast. We could start over. It's all possible but neither of us speaks for a long time and the moment closes and we're back in the world we've always known.

What else she doesn't know: that the man next to her would end up being her husband and the father of her two children, that after two years together he would leave her, her third and final heartbreak, and she would never love again.

I should say something but I don't know where a person can start.

You don't want to let go, but don't want to be hurt, either.

Ana Iris once asked me if I loved him and I told her about the lights in my old home in the capital, how they flickered and you never knew if they would go out or not. You put down your things and you waited and couldn't do anything really until the lights decided. This, I told her, is how I feel.

Nuestra relación no era el sol, la luna y las estrellas pero tampoco era una mierda.

He's the sort of man who'll go to the airport but won't be able to get on board, she says

Ana Iris perguntou-me se eu o amava e eu falei-lhe das lâmpadas na minha antiga casa na capital, que estavam sempre a tremeluzir e uma pessoa nunca sabia se a luz se iria ou não abaixo. A gente interrompia o que estava a fazer e ficava à espera; não conseguíamos continuar enquanto as luzes não se decidissem. É assim que eu me sinto, disse-lhe eu.

Ana Iris m-a întrebat odat? dac?-l iubesc, iar eu i-am vorbit despre luminile din vechea mea cas? din capital?, despre cum pâlpâiau È™i nu È™tiai niciodat? dac? urmau s? se sting? sau nu. ÎÈ›i laÈ™i treaba deoparte È™i aÈ™tepÈ›i È™i nu poÈ›i face cu adev?rat nimic pân? nu se hot?r?sc. Asta, i-am spus, este ceea ce simt.

Besides it only happens when you're not looking for it. That's what everybody claims. Easier to say that than This shit sucks.

I can see myself watching him shave every morning. And at other time I see us in that house and see how one bright day (or a day like this, so cold your mind shifts every time the wind does) he will wake up and decide it's all wrong. I'm sorry, he'll say. I have to leave now.

I always hated obvious dreams like that. I still do.

She did not believe in fate; the world seemed far chancier than that, a series of mishaps and narrow escapes you somehow managed to survive until, one day, you didn't.