Carolyn Jess-Cooke > Quotes

“Nobody needs to be taken to Hell to experience it. We just grow despair inside the soul until it becomes a world in and around a human.”
― Carolyn Jess-Cooke, The Boy Who Could See Demons

“Sometimes an answer doesn't come in one go. Sometimes it has so many layers to it that it takes time for the person to tell you what they really mean.”
― Carolyn Jess-Cooke, The Boy Who Could See Demons

“I feel the human mind is a jigsaw puzzle that I will never be able to solve.”
― Carolyn Jess-Cooke, The Boy Who Could See Demons

“I think some of us have really big challenges in life. But I think everything can be overcome.”
― Carolyn Jess-Cooke, The Boy Who Could See Demons

“Sometimes the imagination is the true predator.”
― Carolyn Jess-Cooke, The Boy Who Could See Demons

“As the trees turned red, then white, then naked as pitchforks, Margot and Xiao Chen immersed themselves in several forests' worth of pages, and I watched, tortured, as brick after brick of a new development was laid on the wasteland of Midtown West like slabs of gold bullion.”
― Carolyn Jess-Cooke, The Guardian Angel's Journal

“He must have read the headlines in a newspaper. I glanced again at the word ruend. Could Ruin be Ruen?”
― Carolyn Jess-Cooke, The Boy Who Could See Demons

“I hesitated. “An offhand remark from a PhD candidate doing a placement at the unit I worked at in Edinburgh. She mentioned that even those kids in Northern Ireland who have never experienced the Troubles, who have never been fished from a swimming pool and wrapped in tinfoil during a terrorist threat, who have never measured distance by the sound of a bomb, and who have never even seen a gun are experiencing psychological effects because of what the older generation has suffered.” “Secondary impact, isn’t that what it’s called?”
― Carolyn Jess-Cooke, The Boy Who Could See Demons

“For hundreds of years, nature held dominion over humans.”
― Carolyn Jess-Cooke