Jennie Fields > Quotes

“There is nothing one can do to delay the inevitable, and so it's best just to stand tall.”
― Jennie Fields, The Age of Desire

“But passion and pride rarely occupy the same space.”
― Jennie Fields, The Age of Desire

“Passion for something is a gift.”
― Jennie Fields, Atomic Love

“America isn’t the land of the brave. It’s the land of bravado. We’re show-offs. In this country, all we desire is things. America is a place that hoards and accumulates and boasts and compares. Meanwhile too many poor people are suffering.”
― Jennie Fields, Atomic Love

“... sin has always been more delicious than loyalty.”
― Jennie Fields, The Age of Desire

“Not talking is noisy. Being angry, that's noisy.”
― Jennie Fields, Atomic Love

“How do we survive a world where death awaits at all times.”
― Jennie Fields, Atomic Love

“How many people in the world are so poisoned by sadness, they push love away when it's the one thing the long for most ?”
― Jennie Fields, Atomic Love

“People fall in love and put up with someone who gives them none of what they want. They've chosen badly, and then feel stuck. A lifetime of suffering. With a glimmer of hope that things will change. But people don't change.”
― Jennie Fields, Atomic Love

“... But she sees that his mouth sucks on his mischievousness as one might savor a hard candy.”
― Jennie Fields, The Age of Desire

“It's swallowing down the memories that turn the world so black.”
― Jennie Fields, The Age of Desire

“Of everyone here, you are the fish I would like to catch.”
― Jennie Fields, The Age of Desire

“She’s heard that the glaciers in the Alaska territory hold such an extraordinary azure color they seem to have trapped the sky beneath the ice.”
― Jennie Fields, The Age of Desire: A Novel

“I just can't believe you feel nothing when I feel so much for you.”
― Jennie Fields, Atomic Love

“Sometimes friendships go bad, she tells herself. Relationships soften and rot like old fruit. They have their time, and then they shrivel and grow putrid. She”
― Jennie Fields, The Age of Desire: A Novel

“Winter grew into a wet spring. It felt like the sun would never shine. After days of no sun, she found it hard to get out of bed.”
― Jennie Fields, Atomic Love

“Someone who would bear my shock, reflect back my outrage, so I could see it better, feel more than this electric numbness.”
― Jennie Fields, The Middle Ages

“I hope they never drop that damn bomb again ..”
― Jennie Fields, Atomic Love

“The Nodders shows how young children in imaginative ways are encouraged to nap using positive reinforcements. The author creates a poetic story where the rhyming words flow easily in solving the problem of getting children to rest.

Brian Schmidt’s illustrations are whimsical and colorful and do an excellent job in bringing the story to life. Since pictures support the beginning reading process, the visual and verbal expressions are easy to understand making the The Nodders a fun book. Possessing a treasure pouch is anothergood incentive to support a child’s quiet time.”
― Jennie Fields, Atomic Love

“Boys weren't built for such things. Like two buttons and no buttonholes.”
― Jennie Fields, Atomic Love

“Sometimes, this is how grownups act. They have their own problems and sadness.”
― Jennie Fields, Atomic Love

“Edith learned long ago that men are drawn to women who are either undeniably beautiful or alluringly vulnerable. She’s never been either.”
― Jennie Fields, The Age of Desire

“He experiences everything with a childlike pleasure that she deems the essential element of a good traveler.”
― Jennie Fields, The Age of Desire

“You look peaceful,” he tells her. “Maybe that’s what a man feels when he stands before a firing squad. There is nothing one can do to delay the inevitable, and so it’s best just to stand tall.” Morton”
― Jennie Fields, The Age of Desire: A Novel

“She's surprised how long he presses her close and has no wish for it to end.”
― Jennie Fields, Atomic Love

“Those days when I had both hands, Linda. Those were ''great'' days.”
― Jennie Fields, Atomic Love

“We were broken by then. We were all barely human.”
― Jennie Fields, Atomic Love

“I'm not interested in her nose.''
''How about the rest of her ?''
''Not right now..”
― Jennie Fields, Atomic Love

“Do you ever think to say thank you ?''
''Thank you ? She's my mom. It's her job.”
― Jennie Fields, Atomic Love