Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes

I remember distinctly running through my neighborhood, thinking I knew how to get to 'Sesame Street,' and then finally finding myself among some scrub trees and realizing I don't know where to go from here. I had to just mope back home.

I could not have told where those damned islands were within 2,000 miles.

I have an incredible sense of direction, but London is confusing. It's a circle, but then it stops being a circle.

I was in a maze. No matter which way I turned, it was the wrong way.

We're right here on this very spot. Besides, being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't - and I don't care at all about where I'm not.

We live in a bewildering world.

To be honest everything goes over my head a bit.

The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray.

I rather like mysteries. But I do dislike muddles.

I just don't see the light. Where is the light? What am I in this for?

Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.

Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.

I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.

'The Names' is a story about a woman who might feel that she's in a kind of maze. She's unable to find her way forward or out because she can't see the whole picture.

Politics is a labyrinth without a clue.

We're lost, but we're making good time.

I get lost a lot.

What's clarity like? Try to remember that funny feeling inside your head when you had math problems too difficult to solve: the faint buzzing noise in your ears, a heaviness on both sides of your skull, and the sensation that your brain is twitching inside your cranium like a fish on the beach. This is the opposite sensation of clarity. Yet for many people of my era, as they aged, this sensation became the dominant sensation of their lives. It was as though day-to-day twentieth century living had become an unsolvable algebraic equation.

I don't know where I'm running now, I'm just running on

Where's my syllabus to guide me through life?

I'm not lost, because I haven't any idea where to go that I might get lost on the way to. I'd like to get lost, because then I'd know where I was going, you see.

When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost.

At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

My dad used to say that life's a journey, but somebody screwed up and lost the map.