Quotes About Uncertainty

you could only guess whether things were waxing or waning in this existence, and that the best we could ever do was commemorate any beauty.

Let go, he advised me, and I loosened my grip on his hands. No, not of me, he said, smiling. You can hold on to me as long as you want. Let go of the pain, Sookie. Let go. You need to drift away. It was the first time I had relinquished my will to someone else. As I looked at him, it became easy, and I retreated from the suffering and uncertainty of this strange place.

As it was, I couldn't escape the feeling that I was out of my element. I found myself thinking of a book I'd left half-read at home and wishing I'd stuck it in my purse so I could pull it out now.

i hate not knowing what i did. _Eric

They say when one door shuts, another one opens. But they haven't been living at my house. Most of the doors I open seem to have something scary crouched behind them, anyway.

I love him, I said, but even to my own ears I didn't sound happy about it.

Do you sometimes wish you could fast-forward a week? You know something bad's coming up, and you know you'll get through it, but the prospect just makes you feel sick. I worried for about thirty minutes, and though I knew there was no point in doing so, I could feel my anxiety twisting me up in a knot. 'Bullshit,' I told myself stoutly. 'This is utter bullshit.

She won't win, Eric said. He sounded confident, passionate--everything I might have hoped would be reassuring. You're sure? I asked. Yes, my lover. I'm sure. But you're not here, I observed, and I hung up very gently. He didn't call back.

Sabía que algo no iba bien en Sookielandia.

Maybe' is such a bad word," I said. "You can 'maybe' yourself back to Adam and Eve and the serpent.

I'm so sorry we were late," she was apologizing in her Lauren Bacall gracious woman mode, the one that always made people accept her apology. "John wasn't sure until the last minute whether he felt like coming or not. But I did so want to meet Aurora's new neighbors, and it was so kind of you to invite us…

I enjoyed my arms around him, the sense of him next to me. And if you were to ask me, I would confess that I thought Sam and I would be together, maybe by Christmas, maybe for always. I couldn't imagine a future without him. But I also knew that if he turned away from me at this moment, somehow I would survive that, and I would find a way to flourish like the yard that still bloomed and grew around my family home. I'm Sookie Stackhouse. I belong here.

We both knew there would be new problems to face, but there wasn't any need to talk about future trouble. Trouble always came at its own pace.

No one will tell you." "Like who?" "Anyone. It's the damnedest thing. I really want to know what I'm up against.

Since he'd had no clue about Chris Stybr (sometimes he had a genuine impression about the seeker, but this Chris could be a man or a woman or a hermaphrodite for all Manfred knew)

When you become first lady, it's like, 'O.K., now what do you do?'

I had no idea what I was going to do with my life. But then a lady at the youth theatre asked me if I'd ever thought of going to drama school.

I don't ever want to feel like my whole life is laid out before me and I know exactly what's gonna happen. That would be so boring.

If you've been laid off, you know how it goes: Everything you thought you knew and liked about yourself gets called into question.

I was 22 years old, actually, incidentally had just been laid off from my job and I had a dog. My parents just didn't understand any of it.

Nobody has a magic lamp which can tell you in advance whether what you say will be effective in persuading an audience.

And for myself, I think for the present He is calling me to another land; but how long shall be my abode, or what employment He has for me there, I know not, for I cannot think He is taking me there to live and lurk only.

Often, you're not quite sure what people have seen you in, but the script lands in your inbox. That was the case with 'The Night Manager.'

At 17 I was graduating and didn't know what to do. I was seriously contemplating going to Melbourne to play Aussie football.