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1 " I remembered Nahadoth's lips on my throat and fought to suppress a shudder, only half succeeding. Death as a consequence of lying with a god wasn't something I had considered, but it did not surprise me. A mortal man's strength had its limits. He spent himself and slept. He could be a good lover, but even his best skills were only guesswork - for every caress that sent a woman's head into the clouds, he might try ten that brought her back to earth. "
― N.K. Jemisin , The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance, #1)
2 " All religions are guesswork "
― Bangambiki Habyarimana , Pearls Of Eternity
3 " That's the lovely thing about men, there's no guesswork involved when it comes to arousal. "
― Belinda McBride , An Uncommon Whore (An Uncommon Whore #1)
4 " All the sanguine guesswork of youth is there, and the silliness; all the novelty of being alive and impressed by the urgency of tremendous trivialities. "
― Siegfried Sassoon , Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
5 " In a way, being an addict is very proactive. A good addiction takes the guesswork out of death. There is such a thing as planning your getaway. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Choke
