Jenni Keer > Quotes

“Everything you do should be driven by love.”
― Jenni Keer, No. 23 Burlington Square

“September heard October creeping up behind, and it gracefully stepped to one side, opening the door to the darker evenings and falling leaves, frost-covered lawns and hearty stews.”
― Jenni Keer, No. 23 Burlington Square

“My faith is important but there are so many contradictions in the Good Book that I have been forced to forge my own path and focus on those tenets that are important to me. Honouring my mother and father, treating others as I wish to be treated, and reserving judgement for God alone. If he forgives the sinner, who am I to convict? Besides, God made all living things, and that includes you, my darling, however imperfect you are. And I can’t believe anything He made can be condemned.”
― Jenni Keer, No. 23 Burlington Square

“minute”
― Jenni Keer, The House of Lost Whispers

“I have learned the bitter lesson that life is not black and white. We are none of us truly one thing or the other, but shades of everything in between.”
― Jenni Keer, The Ravenswood Witch

“I still can’t decide which is worse – the suffering of the victim or the suffering of those left behind.”
― Jenni Keer, No. 23 Burlington Square

“for a person who reads lives not only his own life, but the lives of every hero he reads about.”
― Jenni Keer, The Secrets of Hawthorn Place

“If you’re going to break the rules, do it because not conforming makes you happy, rather than because you simply don’t know what else to do.”
― Jenni Keer, No. 23 Burlington Square

“You could build the tallest”
― Jenni Keer, At the Stroke of Midnight

“There are many dark forces at work within our world and to dismiss them is foolhardy. When evil triumphs over good, it is not because the good has failed, but that the evil was stronger.”
― Jenni Keer, The Ravenswood Witch

“Besides, I have long since given up worrying about material possessions. It’s people who matter in this world.”
― Jenni Keer, The Ravenswood Witch

“It is merely snobbery that prevents people from reading a good book,’ I continued. ‘One that will have them turning the pages and living a thrilling adventure through the words. The loss, my dear, is theirs.”
― Jenni Keer, The Secrets of Hawthorn Place

“carry alone. You should have said something sooner. I may not understand, but I would never judge.”
― Jenni Keer, No. 23 Burlington Square

“he often wished it were enough – that people understood the ones we love never truly leave us whilst we still hold them in our hearts.”
― Jenni Keer, The Peculiar Incident at Thistlewick House

“God’s plans for us all are a wonder to behold,’ she said,”
― Jenni Keer, No. 23 Burlington Square