Jeff Hirsch > Quotes

“If it was true that all paths in our World led to only one place, then why not fill whatever path you chose with the best things you could find?”
― Jeff Hirsch, The Eleventh Plague

“It's four A.M.! Who goes to bed this early!?”
― Jeff Hirsch, Breakaway

“She slipped Glenn into her bed and then her face hung over Glenn's for one quiet moment, like a moon.
"Meera doe branagh, Glennora Morgan."
The strange words drifted down from her mother's lips, whispered as light as falling snow.
"What does it mean, Mommy?"
Fingertips grazed Glenn's cheek. "It means I love you. It means I'll always love you." She kissed Glenn softly on the forehead, then backed away. "No matter what."
She stepped into the bright hallway and closed the door.
When Glenn woke the next morning, her mother was gone”
― Jeff Hirsch, Magisterium

“Nothing is separate. Everything is one thing.”
― Jeff Hirsch, Magisterium

“Shadows of what you'll become. Silhouettes.”
― Jeff Hirsch, Magisterium

“There is no road home.”
― Jeff Hirsch, Magisterium

“There was never anything between us and there never will be. Don't waste any more time worrying about feelings that neither of us ever had. - Jake”
― Jeff Hirsch, Breakaway

“It struck Glenn how their whole life had been made up of such little things.”
― Jeff Hirsch, Magisterium

“You were stalwart.”
― Jeff Hirsch, Magisterium

“Tunis.”
― Jeff Hirsch, Breakaway

“You thinks there's this thing between us, but there never was, and there never will be. - Amy Cahill”
― Jeff Hirsch, Breakaway

“Each question would open a door. What Glenn had to ask herself was, did she want to step through them to the other side?”
― Jeff Hirsch, Magisterium

“What did it feel like?" (Glenn)
"A dream, kind of, You know? The ones that are so real you wake up and wonder if they really happened. And then for the whole day, you walk around in this fog like ... pieces of it are clinging to you and won't let go. (Kevin)”
― Jeff Hirsch, Magisterium

“I'm saying that if you want a dog to drop one bone, all you gotta do is give him a new one."
"And ow am I supposed to do that?"
"When I want to get reporters off my back, I call in an anonymous tip that Justin Bieber is getting a crew cut on the other side of town.”
― Jeff Hirsch, Breakaway

“This is about Gormey, I assume. Nadine Gormey? Have you hired her yet?... What in the blazes is wrong with you, man!... In the entire time I spent slumming at the Harvard chemistry labs," Ian continued, "Nadine Gormey was, without doubt, the only certifiable genius I ever encountered. Only a complete moron would be so stupid as to not hire her the second she walked into his office. Are you a complete moron?... And get down on your knees right now and beg - BEG! - Nadine Gormey to take over that rattrap of an operation you're running! Beg her and just perhaps she'll deign to bring the light of reason and scientific rigor to that pit of mediocrity you call a lab. Good day, sir!”
― Jeff Hirsch, Breakaway

“Cara's stomach knotted with anger, and a strange sort of hunger.
Let's see who the fittest is now, Dad.”
― Jeff Hirsch, Breakaway

“You know who I am?
Sure, Pony typed. You're the Queen of the Universe.
Flattering, April responded. Wanna fill me in on you?
They call me Pony.
You're not bad... What do you want to know?
…
Who's the bad guy? You? Or me?”
― Jeff Hirsch, Breakaway

“Atticus, Dan is right, Atlantis is a myth."
"Everybody was pretty sure Troy was a myth," Jake said. "Until Calvert and Schliemann found it.”
― Jeff Hirsch, Breakaway

“don’t know,”
― Jeff Hirsch, Breakaway