"I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain."

Ambiguity, Grief, Identity, Conflict, Morality

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"I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain."

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"Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with."

Skeet Ulrich, American Actor

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"Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity."

Graham Nelson, English Mathematician

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"The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way."

Stephen Rea, Irish Actor

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"I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door."

Michael Ondaatje, Canadian Author

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"If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious."

Kingman Brewster, Jr., American Educator

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"As if violence could make light. Maybe violence could make light."

Aspen Matis, American Author

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"Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be."

Roger von Oech, American Author

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"In sum, every pore of his being oozed one thing okay, FINE. Every pore oozed two things. The first was irrelevant. The second was dangerous."

G.S. Jennsen, American Author

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"The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes."

Aldrich Ames, American Criminal

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"It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift back and forth."

John C. Hawkes, American Novelist

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"She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair."

Desire

"Remember that I'm still a monster. I can listen to you scream and cry and beg and I still won't let you out."

Power

"When Tana was six, vampires were Muppets, endlessly counting, or cartoon villains in black cloaks with red polyester lining."

Innocence

"You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet."

Self

"I'm afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts."

Emotion

"Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to."

Ethics

"The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies."

Truth

"The moment she was cursed, I lost her. Once it wears off- soon- she will be embarrassed to remember things that she said, things she did, things like this. No matter how solid she feels in my arms, she is made of smoke."

Romance

"We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be."

Identity

"I'm going to take off your gag. And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I'll hit you with this thing as hard as I can as many times as I can. Understood?"

Safety