Who are you?" Violet asked. It is confusing to fall asleep in the daytime and wake up at night. "what are you doing with Uncle Monty's reptiles?" Klaus asked. It is also confusing to realize you have been sleeping on stairs, rather than in a bed or sleeping bag. "Dixnik?" Sunny asked. It is always confusing why anyone would choose to wear a plaid shirt.
The more unsettling the more I feel at home.
The White House that I worked in, that Trump administration, was - it was troubling. And it was very difficult.
Attending a Sarah Palin rally was simultaneously one of the strangest and most chilling events of my life.
The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds-the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians; while sometimes the wind tolled like a distant church bell, and sometimes gave a broad roar around the traveler, as if all Nature were laughing him to scorn. But he was himself the chief horror of the scene, and shrank not from its other horrors.
Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.
As I said many times, the fashion world, its system, can be disturbing.
Sometimes, I myself, even though I'm in Washington, I go quiet because there is so much intimidation around me.
I think the U.S. Open just doesn't suit my personality. I'm more of a calm person. There, it's noisy all day, cars are everywhere, and it takes so long to get to the site. I know that those things shouldn't matter when you're playing, but I just find they drain your energy.
The world I've grown into at the moment is becoming increasingly more disturbing and unsettling.
It's pretty weird when you are just touring all the time and you don't have a normal life. You're out of touch with reality too much.
Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.
What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.
