Meg Wolitzer Quotes

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.

There is a feeling that events are in the air; all that is unpredictable is their timing. Perhaps we shall see several more years of peace, but it is equally possible that overnight some tremendous upheaval will happen.

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?

World is suddener than we fancy it.

So this is what insanity is. Not goofy behavior, but watching a sudden change in the world you used to know.

There's chaos out there, and chaos means opportunity.

Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.

Change is rarely comfortable.

Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.

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.

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.

God, life changes faster than you think.

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.

You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it.

Sudden change, even if it is for the good, is disruptive.

Companies don't like uncertainty; travelers don't like uncertainty.

Change is good, but in the middle of it, it can be very sad.

The world has not just "turned upside down". It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.

The world hasn't ended, but the world as we know it has-even if we don't quite know it yet.

Anything can happen in one day.

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

I'm trying to keep up with what's happening in this turbulent world.

I went through an experience that taught me that as soon as you think that you know how your life is going to be, something in the universe will make you realize that you really are not that in control of it.