Rebecca Stead Quotes

Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of.

I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.

I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying.

I never feel more alone than when I'm traveling. Alone and, to some extent, helpless. The world expects a certain level of competence and can be merciless when this expectation is unmet.

Hemingway has expressed with genius the terrors of the modern man at the danger of losing control of his world

I know what it is like to feel vulnerable and fearful during a difficult time.

It's inevitable that you feel scared when you don't have control of a situation.

When I walked out of the seminary, I was 31, but I was like a scared, frightened kid. I had no place to live, no license, no clothes. I was just a lost soul.

Fear is a huge thing for older people.

I feel like everybody's always out to get me, and that's a weird feeling.

I can't even say what my greatest fear is because I, I can't even imagine. Being without my family... I can't even say it because it makes me cry.

I'm not sure I always feel like I'm in the seat. Sometimes I'm only holding on by one hand and flying out behind the roller coaster. I don't know anybody who doesn't feel that way.

Because I am basically so insecure and anxious and afraid, I never, ever in my life learned to reach out for help, ever.

I worry about everything, which is silly because there's very little you can control anyway.

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.

I'm always surprised to rediscover that there's something kind of scary about life; and that the feeling we have that we're in charge is probably ill founded.

Of course I had friends, but it was very limiting because there was always a chance that at every corner, someone would be laughing at me or waiting to beat me up. I had a very lonely childhood because of that.

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.

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

You're scared of what you can't control

She knows there's more to life, and she's scared of ending up alone

He seemed to be talking about my fears, my insecurity, and my unwillingness to see what was wonderful because tomorrow it might disappear and I might suffer. The gods throw the dice, and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not.

It's the unknown that makes me feel the most vulnerable.

Leave me in the night but please don't leave me in the dark

I don't like being in houses alone.