James Morris > Quotes

“It’s amazing what we keep hidden from others.”
― James Morris, What Lies Within

“the grounds looked like a traveling carnival caught in a dream.”
― James Morris, What Lies Within

“At some point, she didn't know when or for how long, she found herself lost, lost in a song. Her eyes had been closed, and against her will, the music had seeped into her, as if by osmosis, fusing with her soul.”
― James Morris, Melophobia

“He hadn’t learned much in chemistry, but he knew this: he was a particle and others around him reacted.”
― James Morris, What Lies Within

“Hope it didn't come easy. It had to be continuously created and called upon or it would disappear as soon as something else took its place…”
― James Morris, Feel Me Fall

“Entering the rain forest was like passing through a green curtain into a massive haunted room. It was as claustrophobic as I feared. We could only see a few feet in front of us, like a bank of fog, except it was trees and vines: trees that soared well into the sky, vines that grew at impossible angles and thick waxy leaves the blotted out the sun.”
― James Morris, Feel Me Fall

“I'm terrified. But I'd rather live my life doing something I love, something I believe in - even if for only a day than to live safe and bored for the rest of it.”
― James Morris, Melophobia

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us. —Ralph Waldo Emerson”
― James Morris, What Lies Within

“Every artist, no matter what medium, can’t fully hide behind their creation. There”
― James Morris, Melophobia

“I walked away, feeling his eyes on me and I felt… connected somehow. As if I just met the missing piece of the puzzle that was me.”
― James Morris, Feel Me Fall

“I have tried so hard to forget, but memory is a stubborn thing. Memories linger no matter what I do. They're there all the time – and worse. Even my dreams aren't safe. I have vicious nightmares, and they're real – too real – and suddenly I'm back there. I can't will them away, I can't squeeze them away, and the more I try the more they burrow in my head. I want to cut open my skull and dig my fingers into my brain and just pull them out.”
― James Morris, Feel Me Fall

“But there is something about pain. It’s the price of being alive.”
― James Morris, Screams You Hear

“He reminded me of a seed that had blown onto the island and grown into a weed.”
― James Morris, Screams You Hear

“Music was a gateway drug, easy to start, but doomed to send its listeners on a journey of rebellion.”
― James Morris, Melophobia

“So he’s the Patron Saint of Raves and just happens to risk his life for you because, what the hell, he loves a party?”
― James Morris, Melophobia

“Until today, Merrin felt safe in her own No Man's Land, but she knew this was fallacy, a fantasy. There was no middle ground. Just the law and the lawless. What does that make me?”
― James Morris, Melophobia

“All the joy you feel is a lie.”
― James Morris, Screams You Hear

“No, I didn't spit in her food. That's gross. But I did wipe her bun on the bottom of my shoe.”
― James Morris, Feel Me Fall

“But he wasn’t a godsend at all. He was God’s end.”
― James Morris, What Lies Within

“Rock has always been the Devil’s music…I believe rock and roll is dangerous…I feel we’re heralding something even darker than ourselves.” – David Bowie, Rolling Stone, February 12, 1976”
― James Morris, Melophobia

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― James Morris, Feel Me Fall

“Seriously, I just Luke Skywalker-ed you from the Death Star!”
― James Morris, What Lies Within

“I always felt prom was one of those overrated high school conventions that people put too much importance on, like New Year's Eve parties with all the pressure to have the best time ever and were inevitably a disappointment. The best times came from the unexpected, the unplanned.”
― James Morris, Feel Me Fall

“Wouldn’t you agree that we are all ‘created’ and all of our lives are . . . ‘experiments’ to some degree?”
― James Morris, What Lies Within

“There was no outlet, my fear was so deep and tangible I couldn't scream. It felt like an actual substance that enveloped my body, my brain, my very being, I receded further and further within myself, a dark hole, my entire body a taut muscle.”
― James Morris, Feel Me Fall

“The government keeps trying to regulate music," Lorna said, "as if it's something tangible they can put their hands on, like corn or oil. That's where they're wrong. It's not something you can touch. You can only feel.”
― James Morris, Melophobia

“She could see how easily someone could succumb to the hex music weaved over them, the temptation to lose oneself within the hypnotic trance-like beats. No thoughts of the future, or the past, only the immediate present, as if life itself had condensed into a single moment.”
― James Morris, Melophobia

“You ever want proof of God, just wake up to a sunrise over a mountain range.” He”
― James Morris, Melophobia

“She recalled Matthew’s warning to her, seemingly so long ago. “You’re in danger,” he’d said. And she realized with horrifying clarity: I’m not in danger. I am the danger.”
― James Morris, What Lies Within

“The rain pelted us, each drop a tiny bullet.”
― James Morris, Feel Me Fall