J.T. Lawrence > Quotes

“You look like shit.” “Thanks. I look way better than I feel.”
― J.T. Lawrence, The Memory of Water

“What would Warhol be without his paranoia, Hunter S. Thompson without his Quaaludes, Johnny Cash without his philandering? We Somebodies are not expected to walk the line.”
― J.T. Lawrence, The Memory of Water

“You’re a taker. And you’ve been taking for a long time. And I think that you can only take so much from the universe before it closes shop.”
― J.T. Lawrence, The Memory of Water

“My heart is an empty refrigerator.”
― J.T. Lawrence, The Memory of Water

“Maybe that’s why God made childbirth so painful, so that when your life is wrecked by children you know it could be worse.”
― J.T. Lawrence, The Memory of Water

“Spells are like knives, capable of good or evil.”
― J.T. Lawrence, Grey Magic

“Damn it, Nick, I’m trying not to swear!” “How’s it going?” “How the bloody—berry blowtorch!—do you think it’s going?!” “Not very well, by the sound of things.” “Well, flock you, Nick. Flock you.”
― J.T. Lawrence, Dasher

“Life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.”
― J.T. Lawrence, Sticky Fingers 4

“Hate is a destructive emotion: like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.”
― J.T. Lawrence, Sticky Fingers

“You're always trying to stop the bleeding, the relentless flow of blood.”
― J.T. Lawrence, Sticky Fingers 4

“While a memory is a mental snapshot of a moment, it carries with it layers of emotion and texture and scent. Your experience will differ to the person who is standing right next to you, and as the moment is imprinted in your brain, it’s coloured by your mood and life experiences.”
― JT Lawrence, Sticky Fingers 2

“What did you say, strange lady at the party with watery eyes and wobbly chin? Science isn’t enough for you? You still think I should just calm the fuck down about it? You still think that if I stopped focussing on my dream of having a baby that my endo would magically disappear and that my ovaries would un-wilt and be so brimming with beautiful, ripe eggs that they would start clapping? Maybe chest-bumping each other? Come closer, cheap-gold crucifix-clutching lady, tell me about that friend-of-a-friend you know that fell pregnant after adopting. And that other friend-of-a-friend, your cousin’s best friend’s father’s sister, that ‘gave up’ and ‘stopped trying,’ only to find that she was pregnant with twins. Come here, strange lady. Put down that chip-and-dip and let me high-five your face.”
― J.T. Lawrence, The Underachieving Ovary: A Hilarious and Heartbreaking Infertility Memoir about Love, Life, and Lazy Ovaries

“Smith has been killed. He was in another fight and a man named Axxe drove a shiv into his stomach. Talk about nominative determinism.”
― J.T. Lawrence, Sticky Fingers

“Only the most striking parts of your existence are remembered, which means that you don’t remember the majority of your life. You have, roughly, the three seconds of your present moment, plus a (mostly inaccurate, and decaying) memory of around one percent of your past, and that’s it. The rest fades away.”
― JT Lawrence, Sticky Fingers 2

“It seemed to me that if you are abandoned as a child, that sense of rejection stays with you for your whole life. When you finally make friendships, you hold off on asking for help, for fear of being rejected again.”
― JT Lawrence, The Dusk Reapers

“saints are just sinners who keep trying”
― J.T. Lawrence, Sticky Fingers

“tattoos”
― J.T. Lawrence, Sticky Fingers

“The brain abhors a vacuum, and you no longer have that thing to reach for. Yes, you reach for bad memories, even though the experience is unpleasant. It’s like the compulsion to probe a sore tooth with a tongue: it’s difficult to just leave the pain alone.”
― JT Lawrence, Sticky Fingers 2

“No one can be happy one hundred percent of the time, and he didn’t try. Being contented was what he wanted and what he was especially talented at.”
― JT Lawrence, Cursebreaker Box SetBooks 1-6

“The Shelter is a living organism. It will evolve organically as other natural things do, according to what is best for its people. It is not a crowd that needs to be fenced in by petty rules.”
― JT Lawrence, Sticky Fingers 3

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― J.T. Lawrence, Blood Magic Box Set

“Structural womb-issues aside, endometriosis is a disease. Terrorist cells are invading my insides and taking my pipework and my dreams hostage. It’s like a non-fatal form of cancer. Would you tell someone with cancer to ‘relax’? Would you advise someone with diabetes to ‘just go on an island holiday cruise’?”
― J.T. Lawrence, The Underachieving Ovary: A Hilarious and Heartbreaking Infertility Memoir about Love, Life, and Lazy Ovaries

“Multi-millionaires don’t buy toilet paper in bulk, I laughed. But it turned out that they do.”
― J.T. Lawrence, Sticky Fingers

“If you can’t trust the deep gut / balls combination then you can’t trust anything. The penis, on the other hand, the shaft, is another story altogether.”
― J.T. Lawrence, Sticky Fingers

“Time itself is a gift-curse. Time says: ‘Look here! Here is a precious moment to do something with!’ Then as soon as you try to grasp the moment, it’s gone. And you haven’t done anything. And while you’re thinking about that, there is another moment, and then it too is gone. Cruel, like an eternal game of pass-the-parcel.”
― J.T. Lawrence, The Memory of Water

“Berry! Blazing! Bok choy!” “You sound like you have a unique form of Tourettes.”
― J.T. Lawrence, Dasher

“The very last thing a terminally ill patient wants is to be fussed over with antibiotics and feeding tubes in order to prolong his pain, but this is often what families insist on. They panic and press red buttons and jam oxygen masks over their loved ones’ faces, despite their clear DNR stickers, because they are the ones afraid of death.”
― J.T. Lawrence, Sticky Fingers

“There were horrors deep inside me that were trying to claw their way out, and I was exhausted from keeping them inside.”
― J.T. Lawrence, Sticky Fingers 4

“upbeat classical music is piped in, and a video of guinea pig olympics begins.”
― JT Lawrence, The Sigma Surrogate