Rachel Caine Quotes

I don't want to make the wrong mistake.

I wish I hadn't said I'm going to retire.

Why couldn't she have this, just enjoy this, without creating obstacles, digging up problems, worrying about mistakes, about tomorrow's? Why let the maybe's, the what if's, the probabilities spoil something so lovely?

Have I gone too far?

I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.

It looks like I'm this huge shark going in for the kill... I don't know what I was thinking.

I have a feeling that very soon I'm going to fail very, very big. I'm going to try something and everybody's going to be like, 'What was she thinking?'

What's my greatest fear? I don't know; I have lots of fears. Regret, I don't want to have any regrets; that makes me scared.

With so much at stake maybe I'll just leave now.

There was a period where I was a little scared that I'd blown my chance.

I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea.

In doubt, fear is the worst of prophets.

Down on the West Coast I get this feeling like it all could happen.

You don't know what you're doing. You're just hoping that people won't make fun of you. I had no idea how it would turn out.

It's hard to do," I said. Wes looked at me. "What is?" I swallowed, not sure why I'd said this out loud. "Get it right.

If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been.

No one could make a choice without feeling afraid.

How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.

What if I’ve forgotten the most important thing?

Paranoia plays into all of us. Trust is a terrifying idea of not knowing who we can rely on.

Speed eliminates all doubt. Am I smart enough? Will people like me? Do I really look all right in this plastic jumpsuit?

It was better to know the worst than to wonder.

The lens of fear magnifies the size of uncertainty.

The thing is, you don't get to know. It's not like you wake up with a bad feeling in your stomach. You don't see shadows where there shouldn't be any. You don't remember to tell your parents you love them or--in my case--remember to say good-bye to them at all.