M.J. Rose > Quotes

“The owl,” he was saying, “is one of the most curious creatures. A bird that stays awake when the rest of the world sleeps. They can see in the dark. I find that so interesting, to be mired in reality when the rest of the world is dreaming. What does he see and what does he know that the rest of the world is missing?”
― M.J. Rose, Seduction

“There is no glory in honesty if it is destructive. And no shame in dishonesty if its goal is to offer grace.”
― M.J. Rose , Lying In Bed

“Is there a secret? Yes. Anaïs Nin and Pauline Réage and Anne Rampling and Erica Jong all knew it. E. L. James knows it.
It is the secret behind all of our writing. And our reading. Arousal starts in the mind. And grows in the mind. The brain is the most erogenous zone in a woman’s body. That is our secret. And it is what we share.”
― M.J. Rose, Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey

“Perfume is magic. It’s mystery. We recreate the smell of a flower. Of wood. Of grass. We capture the essence of life. Liquefy it. We store memories. We make dreams,” he told her once. “What we do is a wonder, an art, and we have a responsibility to do it well.”
― M.J. Rose, Seduction

“‎"As Oedipus learned, the more you run away from what is predetermined the more you run toward it.”
― M.J. Rose, The Reincarnationist

“The secret, which is not so secret after all, is that the people who we love live on in our hearts, in the beat of our blood.”
― M.J. Rose, The Collector of Dying Breaths

“No, the sadness will soften, its edges will become less rough. In time missing him will be the way you love him.”
― M.J. Rose, The Witch of Painted Sorrows

“Needing someone doesn't make you weak, it makes you feel. And feeling is how you know you're alive. -Jack Reacher”
― M.J. Rose, In Session: Dr. Morgan Snow with Steve Berry’s Cotton Malone, Lee Child’s Jack Reacher & Barry Eisler’s John Rain

“The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse. It can keep a soul alive even if all that survives is a shimmering. I've even seen it. I've been bathed in it. I've been changed by it.”
― M.J. Rose, The Witch of Painted Sorrows

“The business of living can steal away the wonder of life.”
― M.J. Rose, Tiffany Blues

“...if you want to talk to God, it's best to do it where you don't have to shout to have yourself heard.”
― M.J. Rose, The Collector of Dying Breaths

“We're all broken in one way or another, but it's through the cracks in our souls that the light comes through. And the light, Jenny, that's our art. Now, paint. Paint as if your life depends on it.”
― M.J. Rose, Tiffany Blues

“The Kabbalah says if we have not fulfilled our condition during one life, we must commence another... until we have acquired the condition that fits our reunion with God.”
― M.J. Rose, The Memorist

“Aunt Grace had once told me that we can romanticize the unknown far too easily. It is much harder but more satisfying to assign wonder to what we were familiar with.”
― M.J. Rose, Tiffany Blues

“Everyone in the tribe believed in life after death and the spirit’s ability to be reborn and live again in a new body. The undying soul was unquestioned. Did not the leaves fall off the tree and become part of the soil that nourished the tree which spouted new leaves?”
― M.J. Rose, Seduction

“There are no accidents of fate. Every act has a reaction through lives, through time. Déjà vu and coincidence are God tapping you on the shoulder, telling you to pay attention, showing you that you are walking in the footprint of your own reincarnation.”
― M.J. Rose, The Memorist

“...men are monsters all, and something in them wants to force others to see the world the same way they see it.”
― M.J. Rose, The Collector of Dying Breaths

“There's an answer to every question even if it's elusive. The Kabbalah tells us that there's a level of our souls where we all connect to all the world's accumulated knowledge. Jung agreed, just used different words and called it the collective unconscious. It manifests itself in an inner voice we all can hear if we listen deeply enough.”
― M.J. Rose, The Memorist

“Regret isn’t like grief; it never lessens, just stays the same. A little hard ball in the pit of your stomach.”
― M.J. Rose, The Secret Language of Stones

“The dead live as long as someone who loves them lives.”
― M.J. Rose, The Collector of Dying Breaths

“...(T)here is a record in the universe and that if we're attuned to it, we can go back and see it, hear it again, use it.”
― M.J. Rose, Seduction

“Art frees us from our prejudices and gives us the chance to become our best selves, individuals who dare to dream. And even if those dreams aren’t always as pretty as we’d like, or don’t conform, or frighten us, it is our duty to encourage art to flourish. All art. Every kind.”
― M.J. Rose, The Secret Language of Stones

“...you have all the hallmarks of a seeker...You chase special knowledge. You find threads of connections and then share them with people who need them. I can read it in the way you looked at me, the questions you ask, but more importantly, the ones you don't.”
― M.J. Rose, Seduction

“Spend lavishly on creams. Wash your hair with henna at the first sign of gray. Never spend one minute thinking about what you do not have. And most importantly, indulge in everything but love.”
― M.J. Rose, The Witch of Painted Sorrows

“Sometimes love worked out, but more often it failed”
― M.J. Rose, In Fidelity

“They called it the Great War, but that implied worthiness and grandeur, not violence and helplessness and the utter waste and devastation our country, our city, our people endured.”
― M.J. Rose, The Secret Language of Stones

“The ancients had instincts and abilities that are lost to civilization today. Magic was real. It lived inside the shamans. Inside the priests. They passed it on from generation to generation. You have the dregs of that power in you. It it not the strength that it was, but you can access it. But to do so you must be willing to travel deep into your own darkness and be open to risk. To pull from the earth's energy.”
― M.J. Rose, Seduction

“I wouldn’t think it happens easily or often, never for some people. I imagine a love like that is like a fire starting with a spark and growing into a blaze becoming an engulfing passion too hot for most people to withstand.”
― M.J. Rose, The Secret Language of Stones

“Titanic as it sank into the icy sea? Would you prefer that the men leap ahead of you into the lifeboats, leave you and your children to die?” Alva answered without pause. “If a woman had designed the ship in the first place, there would have been enough lifeboats for everyone.”
― M.J. Rose, Stories from Suffragette City

“All you have to do is open yourself up to the cosmos as it lays itself before you. See it in all its mysterious dimensions. Without prejudice. Without assumption... All you ever needed was the key to open yourself to it. And that key is the wonder of the world. All the songs you could never remember but couldn't forget? You can find them now.”
― M.J. Rose, The Memorist