Holly Goddard Jones > Quotes

“Fear sells better than hope. In business and in politics.”
― Holly Goddard Jones, The Salt Line

“to have drunkenly misspelled your suicide note. If only you could die of embarrassment,”
― Holly Goddard Jones, The Salt Line

“You’re complicit in the acts of evil that made her who she is. You’re complicit because you’ve let yourself be comforted by lies.”
― Holly Goddard Jones, The Salt Line

“There’s this assumption that most people, if you strip society and its laws away, are capable of evil.”
― Holly Goddard Jones, The Salt Line

“She had lived a life of sumptuous captivity.”
― Holly Goddard Jones, The Salt Line

“Was that the point of a hug? Two human hearts thudding together, testifying?”
― Holly Goddard Jones, The Salt Line

“The old United States was long gone—c’est la vie—and the people who had known the people who died in the epidemic or got shut out-of-zone were long gone, too,”
― Holly Goddard Jones, The Salt Line

“Her insurance didn’t cover generated tissue transplants, which were still deemed “experimental.” So she lay in a hospital bed and suffered.”
― Holly Goddard Jones, The Salt Line

“This will pass. This isn’t you. This is some stew of chemicals and hormones in your brain, translating stimulus into despair, and if you take these meds or do this exercise or spend this amount of time a day out in the sunshine, the recipe will change, and you’ll see clearly again. Wait for it. Just a little longer.”
― Holly Goddard Jones, The Salt Line

“There’s a gift in not getting. You’re never asked to give it up.”
― Holly Goddard Jones, The Salt Line

“Stay in suit, stay aware, keep your buddy close and your Stamp closer.”
― Holly Goddard Jones, The Salt Line

“... [T]his is what she had been waiting for: a conclusion so terrible that it eclipsed her everyday unhappiness--so terrible that it showed her the stupidity of thinking all this time that she had to live with it.”
― Holly Goddard Jones, The Next Time You See Me

“If I had a child, I think I’m the kind of person who would live in this world in a really narrow way. I would only want what would make my kid happy. And fuck everything else. That’s not how I want to be.”
― Holly Goddard Jones, The Salt Line