Quotes About Unanchored

We are adrift, and the thinnest breeze may blow us where it will.

Maybe they just didn't have anywhere they needed to go.

We were wavering around like a ship without a sail.

She wants to propel herself into the dark and terrifying universe. Being that unanchored and that much in peril seems preferable to being here, grounded on the earth that wrecked her.

Luca feels unmoored from the boundaries of time that have always existed.

Remember the unmoored boat floats about.

a la deriva.

If you don't have your code, you got nothing to hold you down. You just drift, any way things blow you.

I saw myself, sharply, as a wanderer, an adventurer, rocking through the world, unanchored. [...] The wind of my life was blowing me away. [...] I take the blue envelope...and tear it slowly into many pieces, watching them dance in the wind, watching the wind carry them away. Yet as I turn and begin walking toward the waiting people, the wind blows some of them back on me.

I saw myself, sharply, as a wanderer, an adventurer, rocking through the world, unanchored.

Living without anchors had its consequences. It was dangerously easy to drift.

I haven't felt anchored my entire life. But I kind of like it.