Jane Flett > Quotes

“There’s something utterly wonderful about ruin, because once you’ve fallen far enough, you stop trying to impress anyone. It’s only then that life’s true opportunities make themselves known.”
― Jane Flett, Freakslaw

“Teenage girls are a force for the future and when the world is so hell bent on keeping them on the straight and narrow, it’s only fair to balance that out with a push from the other side. Why, without that, who knows what might happen? A future that the old men want without a smidge of sweet chaos that will save the world”
― Jane Flett, Freakslaw

“The dials and switches wink. This one, that one, off—and the ride wheezes to a close. The men stumble into the grass, weaving like broken boxers, clutching their stomachs. The kids lower their arms and sit tight in the cart. When he comes to help them out, they wriggle and squeal and refuse to pry their hands from the bar. “AGAIN, AGAIN, AGAIN!” Zed is delighted. His mouth’s all sherbet fountains. “Again?” The children have the right idea. They know when to demand more and when to let go, when to have the world fling them and when to fight back.”
― Jane Flett, Freakslaw

“To admit you want. It’s very dangerous to live in a small town and want. It’s like building a garden of tiny flowers on a racecourse. Stick a head too high and be tramped to dirt.”
― Jane Flett, Freakslaw

“To want is to offer yourself up for disappointment”
― Jane Flett, Freakslaw

“All of a sudden, he’s sick of it all: sick of placating his da, sick of being a man when a man’s such a rotten thing to be.”
― Jane Flett, Freakslaw

“Usually existence hides itself. It is there, around us, in us, it is us. You can’t say two words without mentioning it but you can never touch it.”
― Jane Flett, Freakslaw

“To want is to offer yourself up for disappointment.”
― Jane Flett