Lisa Kleypas Quotes

I'm familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control over a situation.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse -- borne away with every breath!

You can look out of your life like a train & see what you're heading for, but you can't stop the train.

We are in the grip of some big machine grinding us along. The force of it simplifies everything. A weird calm settled over me from inside out. What is about to happen has stood in line to happen. All the roads out of that instant have been closed, one by one.

I could not stop something I knew was wrong and terrible. I had an awful sense of powerlessness.

My money was stolen from me. I was eventually stripped of the ability to make even the most basic decisions... my daily life became unbearable.

Once you know how completely and suddenly the earth can open up at your feet and the worst can happen, it also, paradoxically, leaves you more afraid of everything else.

It's just scary to think how fast everything is rolling, and you can't stop it.

There are so many things that could happen and will happen that are out of my control.

Some things you can't control.

Panic implies that there is no rational thought taking place. That we are frozen and incapable of adjusting. Powerless to logic, and subject to seemingly unthinkable behavior.

There are things that are not in your control and you will never be able to control them. You've got to accept that very quickly.

If the world wants you, it's gonna keep on coming till it gets you. And who am I that can fix it? Who am I that can change this if the world wants it so badly? Who am I to stop the end of the world if it keeps on coming?

When we weren't being transcendent we specialized in self-inflicted disaster.

I can’t fight the sun. I can only watch helplessly as it drags me into a day that I’ve been dreading for months. Katniss Everdeen

It's much too late to save myself from falling.

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

The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.

It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.

[I] have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one.

Fate rules. You follow the steps and you plan and you work. Then fate slips in laughing and makes fools of us. Sometimes we can trick it or out guess it but most often its already written. For some its written in blood. That doesn't mean we stop, but it does mean we can't comfort ourselves with blame. It's easier to take the blame than to admit there was nothing you could do to stop whatever happened.

This is why people cry at the movies: because everybody’s doomed. No one in a movie can help themselves in any way. Their fate has already staked its claim on them from the moment they appear onscreen.

Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else.

It wasn't his, it wasn't my fault, we both had nothing except patience, but Death has none. I saw him come (how meanly!) and I watched him as he took and took: none of it I could claim as mine.