Charlotte Bronte Quotes

There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.

It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen ... wonderful things.

Everything is holding its breath inside me. Everything is waiting to explode like Christmas. I want to be all new and shiny. I want to sit out bad at night, a boy around my neck and the wind under my skirt. Not this way, every evening talking to the trees, leaning out my window, imagining what I can't see.

I feel like I've passed through a certain door in my life and that I'm standing in a different room now.

I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.

And in fact the only way I can deal with this eerie situation at all is to make a conscious decision that I have already lived and finished the life I planned to live - and everything from now on will be A New Life, a different thing, a gig that ends tonight and starts tomorrow morning.

I'm like a child inside and I really get excited, so sometimes when I'm trying to go to bed, I'm so excited about the next day that I can't go to sleep.

I feel a bit like when we came through the doors on the first day of rehearsals of that play, from that minute on, my whole life changed.

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

I look forward to change, but there is a part of me that absolutely dreads it.

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

I'm not someone who feels settled.

Changes in my personal life are nerve-racking for me.

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

I suppose whenever you go through periods of transition, or in a way, it's a very definite closing of a certain chapter of your life - I suppose those times are always going to be both very upsetting and also very exciting by the very nature because things are changing and you don't know what's going to happen.

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

I find myself thinking: Oh God, now what? I always have to have a new plan, otherwise I get very, very bored.

Before I ever start a job that I'm really excited about, I usually have some sleepless nights or weeks or months. But that anticipation for a person like me... I don't do so well with a lot of time off.

Stepping away from Fun. was both exciting and terrifying.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

Youth is such a fascinating and volatile concoction of vulnerability, dependence, restlessness, relentlessness. You're still learning the terms of the world and of the self, in a very immediate way.

Change is very scary.

We don't often talk about the quarter-life crisis, but it is a real thing.

I'm so tired, but I can't sleep. Standing on the edge of something much too deep.

I'm too excited to sleep!