Jenni Howell > Quotes

“It’s safer to be angry than sad. Anger is a weapon. Sadness is a tomb.”
― Jenni Howell, Boys with Sharp Teeth

“Life begins without our choice and ends the same way, a straight line of birth, breath, death. It’s us, our ideas and hopes and dreams and needs, that make the way difficult.”
― Jenni Howell, Boys with Sharp Teeth

“That all my life I’ve wanted something I’m not even capable of. That I won’t ever be more, because I couldn’t even be enough.”
― Jenni Howell, Boys with Sharp Teeth

“I hate that place and its sorrys. Sorry has never fixed anything. It just bares the wound; it doesn’t bind it.”
― Jenni Howell, Boys with Sharp Teeth

“Armed with a fake ID and a half-baked plan born of three a.m. logic and suffocating grief, I pivot and press the button marker intercom.”
― Jenni Howell, Boys with Sharp Teeth

“Lives with him and still hungers for his presence. Adorable.”
― Jenni Howell, Boys with Sharp Teeth

“not all nightmares stay in dreams
Some follow you to waking.”
― Jenni Howell, Boys with Sharp Teeth

“I've been caged goddesses, immortal thieves, grieving mothers, and wayward sons with magic buried beneath their skin”
― Jenni Howell, Boys with Sharp Teeth

“Wander these halls, a novel in one hand, a coffee in the other, unaware and uncaring if it was midnight or midday. A place that has never felt this much like home”
― Jenni Howell, Boys with Sharp Teeth

“We must not think too much: People go mad if they think too much,”
― Jenni Howell, Boys with Sharp Teeth

“Worlds, hearts, hurts hidden between all those pages, and the students here have enough to drown in. I could be anyone, with this many stories waiting for me. No, even more: I could be so many people, that maybe, just maybe, I could actually find myself.”
― Jenni Howell, Boys with Sharp Teeth

“history is made by average people, not just conquerors”
― Jenni Howell, Boys with Sharp Teeth

“I’m tired of being bored”
― Jenni Howell, Boys with Sharp Teeth