"Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing."

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I’ll wait for you. Come back. The words were not meaningless, but they didn’t touch him now. It was clear enough - one person waiting for another was like an arithmetical sum, and just as empty of emotion. Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached. Waiting was a heavy word.

— Ian Mcewan