Sarah Dessen Quotes

When I first walked into Uber, it was very difficult because people were unsure about what was going to happen - there was a real sense of powerlessness.

It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.

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

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

I felt vulnerable and very much between friends. I remember walking down the hallway and thinking I had no way of knowing what was coming, literally. This wasn't because I had some horrific bullying story, but because of a steady drip of negativity.

Major organizational changes create uncertainty.

The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.

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.

Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn't always hold.

I'm not someone who feels settled.

I feel confidence in myself, but at the same time there's these cracks in the facade and those little things underneath that are unstable.

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

In my teens, I eyed my adulthood with trepidation, as if stalked by a stranger - one who would seize control as if by demonic possession and regard my fledgling incarnation with contempt.

Whenever you get into a new environment, it's scary. You don't know the people; you're not really comfortable with the machine that the show is.

I wish that someone had said to me that it's normal to feel lost for a little while.

With my mother's death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun, many pleasures, many stabs of Joy; but no more of the old security. It was sea and islands now; the great continent had sunk like Atlantis.

MID-TWENTIES BREAKDOWN: A period of mental collapse occurring in one's twenties, often caused by an inability to function outside of school or structured environments coupled with a realization of one's essential aloneness in the world. Often marks induction into the ritual of pharmaceutical usage.

You do have this circumstance in Karachi that because people know things are changing, the stakes are higher. Everyone is thinking, "My home is threatened, my job is threatened, my identity is threatened, my world is threatened." And that creates a very particular sort of climate, that is linked.

I feel that when we leave here I think it's just another transition and whatever it is I hope I'm prepared for it.

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

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

Do you ever feel like a plastic bag, drifting throught the wind, wanting to start again. Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin, like a house of cards, one blow from caving in.

Maybe sometimes you just feel like everything can be taken from you all at once.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.