Susan Beth Pfeffer Quotes

We understand tornadoes scientifically, but it still feels supernatural. The randomness makes it feel supernatural.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

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

One thing you cannot control is nature.

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

In presence of Nature's grand convulsions, man is powerless.

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.

It is well for the man in the street to realize that there is no power on earth that can protect him from being bombed. Whatever people tell him, the bomber will always get through.

We don't have control over many things. We're always grasping for it, but in reality, we don't have a lot of control.

I've lost a lot of control in my life.

After the tragic events of Manchester, with the senseless loss of life and the fear that came from knowing my family was unsafe and that I was completely powerless to protect them, I went to a very dark place with no tools to handle the feelings that came along with the devastation of the attack.

it's impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren't taken into account because no one knows what they will be.

She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.

You're scared of what you can't control

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

You have no control [over natural disaster]. That's what's scary about it. You're helpless. That feeling of helplessness is really scary.

It is vain to look for a defense against lightning.

There's no way I can be tossed around like a bottle slapped here and there on the waves.

O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small.

There's no theme, no moral to be learned, except for the knowledge that lightning can strike from a clear blue sky one morning and take away everything you've built, everything you've counted on, leaving wreckage and no meaning behind. It can happen to anyone, it can happen to you.

the beast is the monster that destroys your dream

Anyway, it doesn't matter how much, how often, or how closely you keep an eye on things because you can't control it. Sometimes things and people just go. Just like that.

When men die, they die in fear", he said. "They take everything they need from you, and as a doctor it is your job to give it, to comfort them, to hold their hand. But children die how they have been living - in hope. They don't know what's happening, so they expect nothing, they don't ask you to hold their hand - but you end up needing them to hold yours. With children, you're on your own. Do you understand?

The sea, vast and wild as it is, bears thus the waste and wrecks of human art to its remotest shore. There is no telling what it may not vomit up.

I have given my all Catch me catch me I think I'm gonna fall