Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes

I still don't know quite what I'm supposed to do or be.

But I don't have anything left inside of me to figure out where I fit in or what I want. If I want anything, it's to know what's possible to want.

What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid.

The real trouble comes from not knowing what we really want in the first place.

I do not know who I am, where I am going - and I am the one who has to decide the answers to these hideous questions.

I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

I don't know what I am. And it's not important.

I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory.

There are times I can't even figure myself out.

I was actually looking for answers where I kept asking myself - what am I doing?

I had money, but I still didn't know what to do with my life.

I'm not even sure who I really am sometimes.

So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.

It's so hard to retain what your purpose is - or to even realize what it is.

But knowing what I don’t want to do doesn’t help me figure out what I do want to do. I could do just about anything if somebody made me. But I don’t have an image of the one thing I really want to do. That’s my problem now. I can’t find the image.

How would I know which one I was?

Sometimes I'm not so sure just who I am either.

I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am.

Who am I? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted?

You can't put your finger on who I am. I can't put my finger on who I am.

He longed to be lost but he couldn't bear not to be found.

I tend toward characters who are more lost than found.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.