J.W. Lynne > Quotes

“Crying doesn’t mean you’re weak ... Sometimes it’s what you need to do to get strong again.”
― J.W. Lynne, Above the Sky Trilogy

“You and I are extremely alike. Sometimes people who are alike don’t get along too well. Qualities that other people would respect, they take for granted in each other, and qualities that they wish they could curb in themselves, seem magnified in the other person. It’s like looking into a hypercritical mirror.”
― J.W. Lynne, Above the Sky

“You are so much stronger than you realize. Don’t let anyone ever tell you that you’re not. Not even you.”
― J.W. Lynne, Above the Sky

“Nobody is normal once you get to know them.”
― J.W. Lynne, The Unknown

“Even after the bruises disappear, the scars inside you are still there.”
― J.W. Lynne, The Unknown

“You can’t stop living your life because you’re afraid that something is going to go wrong.”
― J.W. Lynne, The Unknown

“When all you have left of the people you love are things, then the things become really important.”
― J.W. Lynne, The Unknown

“Life is fragile and fleeting. And cruel.”
― J.W. Lynne, Above the Sky Trilogy

“I will care for you, baby girl. I will protect you, baby girl. I will defend you, my baby girl. Because you are my only baby girl.”
― J.W. Lynne, Above the Sky Trilogy

“I don’t think you really know for sure what you’ll do until it comes down to the moment when you have to make that decision for real.”
― J.W. Lynne, The Unknown

“The question turns Aria’s face bright red and, based on the heat I feel in my cheeks, probably mine too. Until now, we haven’t publicly defined our relationship. It didn’t seem necessary. “We haven’t gone on an official date,” Aria says. “Do you want to?” Paris asks. “Sure,” Aria answers, somewhat dismissively. Paris looks at me expectantly. “Sure,” I say, trying to end the inquisition. “Then you should go on a date,” Paris says.”
― J.W. Lynne, The Haven

“The problem is, the hardest time to admit you need help is when you need it the most.”
― J.W. Lynne, The Unknown

“I can only remember one name: Yates. It’s the name of the dark-haired boy.”
― J.W. Lynne, The Haven

“They can hurt you, but they can only break you if you let them.”
― J.W. Lynne, The Unknown

“I think they would be ideal leaders. They would work for the good of all rather than just a select few.”
― J.W. Lynne, Above the Sky Trilogy

“I will let him leave the legacy of having died while protecting someone who he cared about.”
― J.W. Lynne, Part of the Sky

“The movie is about a woman who falls in love with a monster. Her love magically transforms the monster into a handsome man. At the very end of the movie, after the monster becomes a man, the woman does something very odd. She presses her lips against his. I can’t help wondering what it might feel like to do that.”
― J.W. Lynne, Above the Sky Trilogy

“Connor had become a doctor just two days ago—along with all of his friends. They were hand-selected at just three years old to undergo intensive medical training as part of a controversial experiment, called Kid Docs. In the past few years, the Kid Docs program had produced some of the best doctors in the entire country, if not the world. They had some of the lowest complication rates and the highest success rates, and they had developed innovative new procedures that saved lives that were previously unsalvageable. Connor hoped that he would be among the best doctors in the world someday. But right now, he was focused on only a single thing: saving this one man’s life.”
― J.W. Lynne, Kid Docs

“When we give up hope, we give up living. And so we never give up hope, even when everything seems hopeless.”
― J.W. Lynne, The Unknown

“Crying doesn’t mean you’re weak,” he says. “Sometimes it’s what you need to do to get strong again.” “I will never be strong.”
― J.W. Lynne, Return to the Sky

“I’m perfectly capable of making my own decisions. If I want to destroy my life, I should be allowed to do it.”
― J.W. Lynne, The Unknown

“When I leave this planet, I want it to be a better place than it was when I arrived on it.”
― J.W. Lynne, Above the Sky Trilogy

“Crying doesn’t mean you’re weak,” he says. “Sometimes it’s what you need to do to get strong again.”
― J.W. Lynne, Return to the Sky

“I’m not good at comforting people when they’re upset. I never know what to say. Sometimes I say things that make people get more upset, even though I am trying to be helpful. Sometimes I even say things that make them get angry at me, which makes me upset because I was trying my best to make them feel better. And so when someone is upset, I just stay nearby, out of the way, and watch over them to make sure they’re okay, and I wait for someone else to come and comfort them.”
― J.W. Lynne, The Unknown

“So much of my heart has already died.”
― J.W. Lynne, The Unknown

“I won’t let down my guard”
― J.W. Lynne, The Unknown

“Fear only benefits us when it propels us to take action against danger. If not, there’s no sense in being afraid, only aware.”
― J.W. Lynne, Return to the Sky

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― J.W. Lynne, Beyond the Sky

“The world is broken. It probably always will be, but it’s better with you in it.”
― J.W. Lynne, Part of the Sky

“The elevator rises toward the ceiling of the lobby. The gigantic silver-framed window above us shows yet another view of the ocean. “This place is completely underwater?” I ask. “Right,” Aiden says. “That’s part of what makes it so well-protected.” The”
― J.W. Lynne, The Haven