Quotes about Uncertainty

It isn't the sort of thing you ask questions about, because the answers are not usually answers you want to know.

You don't believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.

The only sure camouflage was unpredictability.

From this distance it does resemble fun. Fun is not knowing how it will end.

Their youngness is terrifying. How could I have put myself into the hands of such inexperience?

Think of me as a guide. Think of yourself as a wanderer in a dark wood. It's about to get darker.

Yes, it does feel deceptively safer with two; but Thou is a slippery character. Every Thou I've known has had a way of going missing. They skip town or turn perfidious, or else the drop like flies and then where are you?

And still, what a risk he'd taken. The woman was like an amateur car bomb: you never knew when she would explode or who she would take down with her when she did.

It's a gamble every time you get up in the morning.

If I'd been older I would've asked what it was right away, but I didn't because I wanted to postpone the moment when I would know what it was. In stories I'd read, I'd come across the words nameless dread. They'd just been words then, but now that's exactly what I felt.

Last night I felt the approach of nothing. Not too close but on its way, like a wingbeat, like the cooling of the wind, the slight initial tug of an undertow.

What will Ofwarren give birth to? A baby, as we all hope? Or something else, an Unbaby, with a pinhead or a snout like a dog's, or two bodies, or a hole in its heart or no arms, or webbed hands and feet? There's no telling. They could tell once, with machines, but that is now outlawed. What would be the point of knowing, anyway? You can't have them taken out; whatever it is must be carried to term.