Jen Crane > Quotes

“I could not recall the last time I had been so flagrantly insulted.

Don't make enemies, I told myself.
Swallow your pride.
Hold your tongue.

But the fact was, I had real difficulty with those particular virtues.”
― Jen Crane, Rare Form

“I had reason to be wary of Rowan Gresham.

Crazy doesn't always look crazy.

Sometimes it looks like the most handsome and refined gentleman ever encountered in one's short life.”
― Jen Crane, Rare Form

“At his words not my body, but my soul bucked, decimating barriers that until then had been untouched.”
― Jen Crane, Rare Form

“Isn’t it amazing the effect on one’s perspective that can be made by a glass of wine and a moment’s peace?” he asked.
I rather thought that it was amazing the effect one glass of wine and one grumpy old dude could have on my libido, but no way was I telling him that.”
― Jen Crane, Rare Form

“Let me guess. Hmmm. Mocha. Nonfat. Covered with whipped cream.” “That’s exactly right. How did you know?” I supposed he could add mind reader to his growing list of useful talents. “A lucky guess. Would you settle for vanilla, though? The nonfat and whipped cream I have covered, but even this tan would never qualify as ‘mocha’.”
― Jen Crane, Rare Form

“unbelievable' is just due to a prosaic bent in the mind of beholder.”
― Jen Crane, Rare Form

“After a time skin sags; appearance fades,” a favorite professor told me on my twenty-first birthday. “Look deeper,” she said.”
― Jen Crane, Rare Form