Jamie Day > Quotes

“but I guess we’re all just one secret away from feeling like an outsider.”
― Jamie Day, The Block Party

“My mom is fond of saying that if everyone threw their problems up in the air”
― Jamie Day, The Block Party

“How’d everything get this screwed up?” she asks in a muffled voice. I want to say: Because we were born and life seems to go awry no matter what we do. But I don’t.”
― Jamie Day, The Block Party

“Guys who bully tend to punch or shove, but girls are far more insidious. They’re emotional ninjas, delivering stealth wounds you don’t see or feel until you’re already bleeding out and near social death.”
― Jamie Day, The Block Party

“Grace focuses on her tea as she answers. “The world is full of mysteries. Nature is powerful. It takes as easily as it gives. We must respect it, always.”
― Jamie Day, The Lake Escape

“never had a family of her own, maybe she’s clung to the one she once knew, from a time before sorrow swallowed joy,”
― Jamie Day, The Lake Escape

“and please feel free to take this the wrong way—but what the hell is wrong with you?”
― Jamie Day, The Block Party

“To quote the Beastie Boys: I like my sugar with coffee and cream. I noticed you do, too.”
― Jamie Day, Beach Thriller

“Trauma does that to you. It makes sure you recall every painful detail of the triggering event so it can roost in your psyche and live there forever.”
― Jamie Day, The Block Party

“young love and naïveté go together like cookies and milk.”
― Jamie Day, The Block Party