Quotes About Uncertainty

Option 1: Attempt to back out. Probable result: Death after painful torture. Option 2: Do the job and hope. Probable result: Death but probably no torture (good)

You don't fear me, he said now. She wasn't stupid enough to lie. I'm petrified. But I figure you didn't make me come all this way just so you could push me off the roof.

As for asking Tam Lin, Matt didn't know how to bring up the subject. By the way, is anyone planning to cut me up into T-bone steaks? Even more terrifying was the bodyguard's possible answer: You hit the nail on the head there, laddie. I always said you were bright as a button.

Matt worried about what would happen to him now. Would Rosa come back and throw him into the sawdust? Would she make good on her promise to bury him alive?

Matt was strapped to a bed in a room full of alarming machinery.

It was better to take a chance on the devil she didn't know than to leave herself completely unprotected against the man who (despite his recent assurances of devotion) had made it his business to torment her in the past.

Sophia feared that divorce, re-marriage, and subsequent poverty would not bring out the best in her character.

y los himnos pluviales que nacen de su boca envolviéndonos sí como a dos nautas enlazados al velamen incierto del amor. (de A Un Muchacho)

Whenever I begin reading a new book, I am embarking on a new, uncharted journey with an unmarked destination. I never know where a particular book will take me, toward what other books I will be led.

The one certainty in life is that it changes.

Life is a gamble and sometimes when you gamble you win.

Fate sure has a funny way of messing up our well-ordered lives." As

When you first fall in love, it's supposed to be awful. Awful, uncertain, scary, wonderful, confusing, all at once. That's how you know it's real. You have to care deeply. Passionately. That hurts.

Emmy, the events we lived through taught me to be sure of nothing about other people. They taught me to expect danger around every corner. They taught me to understand that there are people in this world that mean you harm, And sometimes, they're the people who say they love you.

We all cope with fear and uncertainty differently. A great many conservatives are dealing with their fears about a changing and destabilizing world by attempting to force back the clock. But if the Right specializes in turning backward, the Left specializes in turning inward and firing on each other in a circular hail of blame.

Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear

losing one's job is much less frightening when getting it seemed an accident in the first place.

No matter how hard you've worked, there's always something to worry about.

Yeah, Aadhya agreed. The school wants you to go maleficer. What could you do if you decided to start using malia? If you had me make a list of the top ten questions I go to great lengths to avoid asking myself, that one would have comprehensively covered items one through nine, and the only reason it wasn't doing for item ten as well was that So how do you feel about Orion Lake had quietly crept onto the bottom of it. But it's a long way from the rest.

You don't actually want to date me, do you? I-- he looked baffled and desperate and then said, If you-- I don't--it's up to you!

We all have to gamble with our lives in here, we don't get a choice about that; the trick is figuring out when it's worth taking a bet.

It was exactly what I wanted, only once I was in it, I didn't want it after all.

The point being that we still needed a better strategy for graduation than Wait and see if El can keep her big-girl pants on, and here I was whinging on about how nice it would be for me to do something unbelievably stupid instead, like Orion.

He looked at me, baffled and for the first time uncertain, as though he had stumbled into something, unprepared. His long narrow hands were cradled around mine, both of us holding the rose together. Magic was singing in me, through me; I felt the murmur of his power singing back that same song. I was abruptly too hot, and strangely conscious of myself. I pulled my hands free.