Gail Sheehy Quotes

At some stage in most people's lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be.

The future had suddenly become unknowable: anything could happen: the train of my life had jumped the rails and headed off across the fields and coming down the lane with me, then.

Forty freaked me out. I didn't see it coming. My life was in a state of chaos - I was moving jobs and moving house - and it just hit me like a ton of bricks.

How is it that one day life is orderly and you are content, a little cynical perhaps but on the whole just so, and then without warning you find the solid floor is a trapdoor and you are now in another place whose geography is uncertain and whose customs are strange?

Life is full of surprises.

Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does.

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

I suppose I try to look for those things where the world turns on you. It's every automobile accident, every accident at a party, you're having a good time until suddenly you're not.

My life has been a series of emergencies.

Most things in life come as a surprise.

Sometimes the transition from being in control of your life to having absolutely no control is swift, but other times it is so gradual that you wonder exactly when it truly began.

Life is nutty; anything can happen.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

I hate turbulence in life, but also on planes.

You can't prepare for something that you can't prepare for.

In true Slipknot fashion, nothing we plan works out the way we want it.

He sighed, wondering how his life had been turned upside down by this woman in less than forty-eight hours. Correction: by this woman, a pig, and a rabbit.

Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.

It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated.

It was the damnedest thing, life. Once you decide exactly how things are going to go, something or someone comes along and messes it all up.

Chaos is roving through the system and able to undo, at any point, the best laid plans.

Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.

But I remember seeing a mess of leaves suddenly go skittering in the wind and into the creek, then floating rapidly down the creek towards the sea, making me feel a nameless horror even then of 'Oh my God, we're all being swept away to sea no matter what we know or say or do

World is suddener than we fancy it.

I have a feeling I'm falling on rare occasions but most of the time I have my feet on the ground I can't help it if the ground itself is falling.