Michelle Moran Quotes

I'm ready to live on my own. It's a really big step, but I'm ready.

Life calls us forth to independence, and anyone who does not heed this call because of childish laziness or timidity is threatened with neurosis. And once this has broken out, it becomes an increasingly valid reason for running away from life.

Once you move away from home, it's never quite the same again. You expect everything to be just as you left it, and it never is. It's almost the first step into adulthood, realising you've got to make your own way.

School is school-she wants it to be over, but she's afraid of it being over, because then she'll have to figure out what comes next.

In S Club I played a role in a band, but now I can go off and be me - My horizon's wide open now. It's scary and it's daunting, but it's an absolute thrill. I feel brand new!

I realised I was living in my own universe with lots of assistants. I didn't have a cell phone; I didn't know how to use a computer. Everybody was doing everything for me. So I left and moved to New York. It was the end of an era, and I must say I found myself a bit lost. I wasn't in the protected Mugler universe any more.

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.

I'm not scared of growing up, but it just happens, doesn't it?

I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village.

College and the responsibilities that came with it helped me transition from teenager to adulthood.

My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road.

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.

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

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.

Acting was definitely a comfortable place. It didn't force me into adulthood because I was ready to be independent.

I am always scared when I start something new. That hasn't changed.

Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on the edge. We all are on the brink, and it takes a lot of nerve, a lot of energy, to teeter on the edge, looking over, looking down into the windy blackness and not being quite able to make out, through the yellow, stinking mist, just what lies below in the slime, in the oozing, vomit-streaked slime; and so I could go on, my thoughts, writing much, trying to find the core, the meaning for myself.

Progress may feel more like loss than gain.

And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness

So something had begun, and now she could not stop it. Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement. She could leave this place today. She could start a new life somewhere else.

It is always the first and last steps that are the hardest to take. We walk away and try not to turn back, or we stand just outside the gates, terrified to find what's waiting for us now that we've returned. In between, we stumble blindly from one place and life to the next. We try to do the best we can. There are moments like this, however, when we are neither coming nor going, and all we have to do is sit and look back on the life we have made.

Growing up is scary because it happens without you knowing it.

Now that I am moving, I am afraid. Where am I going?

Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin.