Quotes About Uncertainty

Something, someone, cut off her head, yanked out her tongue. My mother is a middle-aged woman, a middle-class woman, a woman of moderate intelligence and medium-sized ego and average good luck, so that you would expect her to land somewhere near the middle of the world. Instead she's over there at the edge. The least vibration could knock her off.

Brian looked at Michele and shrugged. Michele shook her head back at him. They both looked at Jo Dee. Here they were on the verge of finding the head, Michele pondered, and they were at the mercy of a ten-year-old. Have you got that item covered? she asked Jo Dee, hopefully.

We don't know what to do about Eve. She hasn't called and isn't here." Janie could not worry about Eve, who would do the best she could.

She took one of her poodle's charcoal biscuits out of the packet and ate it herself. 'Either these are quite delicious or quite disgusting. Like many things in life, it's rather hard to tell which,' she said.

remind yourself continually of the higher truth that you cannot possibly see all the facts or details of any situation, nor visualize the long-term consequences of your actions.

We are so deluded. We are in control of nothing whatsoever; not the weather, not the government, not the stock market, not traffic, barely our health and relationships, not the millions of decisions being made by people all over the world every second—all of which influence our lives in both unseen and all-too-apparent ways. We

When we are in a holding pattern, it is because we know exactly what we should do next, but we are terrified to act on it.

Life was never meant to be safe. It was meant to be lived right to the end.

Nothing was ever definite, but in that moment, Jill's soul had found a permanent home.

When we come to the edge of the light we know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, of this we can be sure…either God will provide something solid to stand on or we will be taught to fly.

Fear will ruin the future quicker than anything.

Life doesn't come with guarantees.

When we come to the edge of the light we know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, of this we can be sure…either God will provide something solid to stand on or we will be taught to fly.' I

When we come to the edge of the light we know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, of this we can be sure…either God will provide something solid to stand on or we will be taught to fly.' I can't remember

Faith may want answers, but somehow it is able to survive without them.

And to think," Ned said huskily, "only this afternoon I thought I'd lost you to another guy.

Do you think he's going to hurt Sam?" Bess asked. "I don't know. But it sounds like that's on the table.

Every time I think we're on to something meaningful, it dissolves into nothing.

I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.

What worries me is, what if this guy is really the one for me and I just haven't had enough therapy yet for me to be comfortable with having found him.

I couldn't find Dr. Flemming among the audience, either. So, Duke, Flemming, and Stockton had all ditched. Did that make me the last one standing? Did that mean I won? What, exactly, did I win?

She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.

Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them . . . She thought a long time and kept hitting her thighs with her fists. Her face fell like it was scattered in pieces and she could not keep it straight. The feeling was a whole lot worse than being hungry for any dinner, yet it was like that. I want - I want - I want - was all that she could think about - but just what this real want was she did not know.

She did not know why she was sad, but because of this peculiar sadness, she began to realize she ought to leave the town.