Jennifer Weiner Quotes

He that's secure is not safe.

Pull a string, a puppet moves ... each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the front tire, the bed, the walls, the room; all our necessities including love, rest on foundations of sand - and any given cause, no matter how unrelated: the death of a boy in Hong Kong or a blizzard in Omaha ... can serve as your undoing. all your chinaware crashing to the kitchen floor, your girl will enter and you'll be standing, drunk, in the center of it and she'll ask: my god, what's the matter? and you'll answer: I don't know, I don't know.

Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

With such riches as I have in life, you're always nervous. Being Irish, you're waiting for something to knock it sideways.

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.

What annoys me about it is that your fate is always in somebody else's hands. It's always up to somebody else to decide whether or not they want you in their show and so the majority of actors have to play out a waiting game. The constant fear is that it could all end tomorrow.

There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.

The world's my oyster. But it worries me, all this showing off about being happy. Life is so precarious, and I know terrible things can happen. At the moment, everything is happy.

It's so easy for all the success in the world to suddenly end, and I'm quite aware of that.

I'm not fixated on death but I know tomorrows are not guaranteed.

Life is a very scary thing because it's unknown. Anything can happen anytime, and that is terrifying for all of us: to not to be in control.

You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice.

I was also ready to believe, though, that whatever good things I had managed to set upright could topple at any second.

The world is fine. Our place on it is precarious.

No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.

Somehow, in many of those near-miss instances, I've managed to fight through and continue. But in all these situations, even when they're apparently going well, I feel I am living on the razor's edge between success and failure, adulation and humiliation - between justifying my existence and revealing my unworthiness to be alive.

We must expect everything and fear everything from time and from men.

Most people are one car wreck away from needing somebody's help. So, I don't take anything for granted much anymore.

Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us. Missing, a lot of the time. A lot of miles on the motorway without a front wheel blow-out. A lot of viruses that slither through our bodies without snagging. A lot of pianos that fall a minute after we've passed. Or a month, it makes no difference. So unless we're going to get down on our knees and give thanks every time disaster misses, it makes no sense to moan when it strikes.

You can plan all you want to. You can lie in your morning bed and fill whole notebooks with schemes and intentions. But within a single afternoon, within hours or minutes, everything you plan and everything you have fought to make yourself can be undone as a slug is undone when salt is poured on him. And right up to the moment when you find yourself dissolving into foam you can still believe you are doing fine.

Every day the bucket a-go a well, one day the bottom a-go drop out.

Where destiny blunders, human prudence will not avail.

Anything can go away. There's no such thing as safety and security. You can do things that give you the illusion of safety and security, but there's really no such thing.

This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable.

These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.