Jane Rogers > Quotes

“If you'll never leave me, I'll never leave you.”
― Jane Rogers, Island

“What's the truth? The truth is what people WANT. Liars are basically idealists, liars are saints and prophets. Jesus was a liar.”
― Jane Rogers, Island

“Perfect crime,' he said softly.
'Yes?'
'Persuade an innocent, idealistic young girl that the future of the human race depends on her sacrificing her own life. She will come into hospital as trustingly as a lamb to the slaughter. She will welcome the implantation of a baby that will kill her. She'll lie there while her brain is destroyed for nine whole months, and no police will arrest you, no court will judge you, you'll get away scot free. At the end of nine months she'll be taken off life support and she'll be completely dead. And no one will be blamed.”
― Jane Rogers, The Testament of Jessie Lamb

“Stillness was most natural. To go on scrabbling and running and grasping after some kind of life was aberration; stillness was lasting.”
― Jane Rogers, Island

“Lips move; lips touch; lips signal. Lips are on the outside for show, and on the most secret inside of your mouth. Lips frame words that lie. Lips frame a hole that wants to be filled.”
― Jane Rogers, The Ice is Singing

“You want to save the world."

"What's wrong with that?"

He sighed in exasperation. "You are too young to understand. People get by."

"I don't want to get by. I want to know my life's been useful.”
― Jane Rogers, The Testament of Jessie Lamb

“I climbed the ditch, walked out into the middle of the prayer stones and stared across to the monks' island. If you stood there and thought you heard mass when it wasn't being sung, how would it be different to standing there when it was being sung? Would the mass in your head be any less real?”
― Jane Rogers, Island

“We lay on the short grass and looked at the sky, waiting for the tide to go out. Even as we watched the clouds shrank and disappeared, we could see right into the universe.”
― Jane Rogers, Island