## Metadata - Author: [[Naomi Alderman]] - Full Title: The Future - Category: #books ## Highlights - Lenk drew breath and Zhen understood that sometimes you can know the future. You can know it in the inability of people to change. In their desire to have things over. If you can’t tolerate uncertainty, you will try to make things certain. Sometimes the only way to make them certain is to make them bad. ([Location 4766](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0BX7CK5VG&location=4766)) - We are all falling, all the time, from the half-understood past to the unknowable future. The other name for falling without fear is flying. ([Location 5738](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0BX7CK5VG&location=5738))