Emma Gonzalez Quotes

People are tired of constant movement, improvisation, and wild scrambling when plans fail.

How is the birdhouse coming along, Charlie Brown?" "Well, I'm a lousy carpenter, I can't nail straight, I can't saw straight and I always split the wood... I'm nervous, I lack confidence, I'm stupid, I have poor taste and absolutely no sense of design... So, all things considered, it's coming along okay!

Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.

With so much at stake maybe I'll just leave now.

I don't ever feel like I have it all together.

For the first six or eight months at Juilliard I felt paralysed. I didn't know what I was doing.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

It is most difficult to deal with. There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

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

I'm not good with decisions.

Decision-making is very scary for me.

I believe there are various aspects of me - sometimes I am very capricious and cannot make up my mind, so I'm unpredictable!

The 21st century is a really terrible time to be a control freak.

My world is just one big chaos!

I feel like a Space Jam' creature.

This crazy world that looks like a lot of fun is also really stressful and crazy at times.

I think it is a burden... that we constantly realise that there isn't that much rhyme or reason to why something happens. If we think about that too much, it can make all of our decisions very stressful.

Sometimes I feel I don't know even know how to run.

There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.

Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.

It is like sitting in a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway with your windows rolled up and Portuguese music booming out of the surround-sound speakers while animals gnaw on your neck and diseased bill collectors hammer on your doors with golf clubs.

Sometimes it feels like the whole world is conspiring to destroy my house... " - Shigure Sohma

None of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong.

There is simply too much to think about.

The chaos surrounding her was confusing. Everyone was suddenly talking at the same time. Perhaps she should try to swoon after all, Christine considered. No, the settee was already taken, and the floor didn't look all that appealing. She settled on wringing her hands. It was the best she could do to look upset.