Jaime Ellis > Quotes

“I was his apocalypse. And there was no way for him to escape the end of his world.”
― Jaime Ellis, Beautiful Storm

“Weak people seek revenge. Strong people forgive”
― Jaime Ellis, Beautiful Storm

“What was it that I was looking for? Revenge? Justice? Her sorrow? Her regret? Her apology? A beginning? An end? All of it? None of it? Goddamn”
― Jaime Ellis, Beautiful Storm

“One of the rules in a tense situation: remain nonplussed no matter what. People liked reactions because the more you gave them, the more out of control they could make you.”
― Jaime Ellis, Beautiful Storm

“The anger was nothing but a shield for pain, like a cornered soldier randomly throwing out grenades, scared for his life, lonely, desperate.”
― Jaime Ellis, Beautiful Storm

“clinically lacked empathy and emotion beyond the need for adrenaline.”
― Jaime Ellis, Beautiful Storm

“deep roots are not reached by the frost.”
― Jaime Ellis, Beautiful Storm

“a pack got quicker results than a lone wolf.”
― Jaime Ellis, Beautiful Storm

“As the great Machiavelli once wrote, the first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”
― Jaime Ellis, Beautiful Storm

“Time slowed to a nauseating crawl. The chill of the air turned my breath into a pull of soft frost. I fixed my gaze on the light snow-covered trees tall branches that spread out like witches’ fingers. My heart ached from the pain and grief that swirled around me in what seemed like a never-ending maelstrom. I wanted to rage and scream and shake her. Lili exhaled, her breath making a little white puff in the frosty”
― Jaime Ellis, Beautiful Storm

“words were nothing but arrows without tips.”
― Jaime Ellis, Beautiful Storm

“People with an inferiority complex can't feel good about themselves unless they kill the brightest light in the room.".”
― Jaime Ellis, Beautiful Storm

“I was Lilith, the first woman, who refused to lie beneath Adam, who said, “fuck this” and marched from the Garden of Eden with her head held high, refusing to allow even God to stop her.”
― Jaime Ellis, Beautiful Storm

“The key to breaking people open was hitching on the right crack, then shattering them to reveal the scared, hurt child inside.”
― Jaime Ellis, Beautiful Storm

“Even the prettiest flower will die one day. It’s nature’s way of teaching us that nothing lasts forever.”
― Jaime Ellis, Beautiful Liar

“I'm not holy water and soft hallelujahs. I'm a battle hum written in blood.”
― Jaime Ellis, Beautiful Storm

“I didn't know why I was here, what I was looking for. Reaching for catharsis, maybe, for a purging, a deliverance, a relief, a release, and yet never finding it. Not knowing where it was, what it looked like, how to grasp it.”
― Jaime Ellis, Beautiful Storm

“Peer aggression was usually rooted in competition. What did they have to compete over? Looks, boys, and money, naturally. In the world of our hunter-gatherer ancestors, who we still hadn't evolved away from, these things translated to desirability, mating prospects, and resources.”
― Jaime Ellis, Beautiful Storm