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1 " How did you get so scratched up then, Emlynn?” He looked at me uncertainly again.I felt wildly like laughing. Too many swooping highs and plummeting lows. What a weird fewdays. Weird being a massive understatement.“Cr-Crawling through gorse bushes.” I took a perverse delight in answering his questions in a way that told him nothing at all. I’d never paid much attention to boys before. Maybe Grace was onto something after all.“Crawling through gorse,” he repeated. “Part of your action-girl antics, no doubt?”“N-no doubt.” I smirked again. "
― J.A. Ironside , I Belong to the Earth (Unveiled, #1)
2 " Now she realized that she was not peering at a so-dark-blue-it-looked-black ocean, but rather she was looking straight through miles of incredibly clear water at something enormous and black in its nethermost depths. Maybe it was the bottom--so deep that not even light could touch it.And yet, down in those impossible depths, she thought she could see tiny lights sparkling. She stared uncertainly at the tiny glimmerings. They seemed almost like scattered grains of sand lit from within; in some places they clustered like colonies, faint and twinkling.Like stars... "
― Fuyumi Ono , The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow (The Twelve Kingdoms, #1)
3 " In economics, it is often professionally better to be associated with highly respectable error than uncertainly established truth. "
― John Kenneth Galbraith , The Affluent Society
4 " Poetry is a finikin thing of airThat lives uncertainly and not for longYet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs. "
― Wallace Stevens , The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play
5 " All uncertainly is fruitful... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand. "
