Jenny Trout > Quotes

“Strength isn't about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences.”
― Jennifer Armintrout

“I have to go. I have a finite amount of life left and I don't want to spend it arguing with you.”
― Jennifer Armintrout, Ashes to Ashes

“I'd never been a good damsel in distress. I was a "hands-on" damsel.”
― Jennifer Armintrout, Possession

“No one's place in this world is guaranteed. Not everyone is going to get a happy ending. But life isn't about how it ends. It's about the moments between. It's about the small things. The way our loved ones laugh. The sight of a butterfly in the sunlight after a year or two in the darkness. The love and support of an old friend. They might not be with us in body, but they are with us in spirit. The feeling of something we'd thought lost to us forever returned in a single, life-changing moment. Yes, that is simple, even though it might be momentous to us as individuals. Because every day, on this planet, people are born and people die and stranger things happen. But I know my place now, and my purpose. And no matter what trial you have to endure to find that out...
It's worth it.”
― Jennifer Armintrout, All Souls' Night

“If you're afraid of something, face it. Fear is irrational. The only way to conquer your fear is to stand next to it.”
― Jennifer Armintrout, The Turning

“One minute she acts like she wants to be with me and I'm the one rejecting her. The next, she's got this barbed wire fence and barking dogs around her, like I can't even ask her the simplest questions."

"And here I was assuming you didn't care about her."

Stabbing his fingers through his hair, he groaned, "I don't!"

"And you make it perfectly clear." Men. Idiots.”
― Jennifer Armintrout, Ashes to Ashes

“It was the damnedest thing, life. Once you decide exactly how things are going to go, something or someone comes along and messes it all up.”
― Jennifer Armintrout, Ashes to Ashes

“No one's place in this world is guaranteed. Not everyone is going to get a happy ending. But life isn't about how it ends. It's about the moments between. It's about the small things. The way our loved ones laugh. The sight of a butterfly in the sunlight after a year or two in the darkness.
The love and support of an old friend. They might not be with us in body, but they are with us in spirit.
...
Because every day, on this planet, people are born and people die and stranger things happen.(Armintrout, All Souls' Night, 367)”
― Jennifer Armintrout, All Souls' Night

“I couldn't take much more of this. Being the object two men competed for wasn't as glamorous as it sounded in the movies. The two men who both wanted one hundred percent of my time weren't dashing, international playboys. They were undead and surprisingly immature, considering the youngest was just over a hundred years old.”
― Jennifer Armintrout, Ashes to Ashes

“Well, I always did want to go out in a Braveheart kind of way. I'll just have to think of something cool to yell before they cut my head off.”
― Jennifer Armintrout, Ashes to Ashes

“Let the meek have the kingdom of heaven. The strong shall rule on earth.”
― Jennifer Armintrout, Ashes to Ashes

“I am sorry the only outlet for her troubled mind was in clumsy foreplay with an inadequate partner."

He threw the rest of her sandwich at the swinging door as she passed through it.”
― Jennifer Armintrout, Ashes to Ashes

“Near mint my ass! Bluebird45 is getting some seriously bad feedback."
"You bought this on eBay?" I flipped to a random page and started reading. "Man, you really can get anything on there.”
― Jennifer Armintrout, The Turning

“Wasn't loving him like loving the sun, so beautiful and warm, essential to light but deadly if you got too close?”
― Jennifer Armintrout, Queene of Light

“I'm sorry I'm not more cultured. I'll watch PBS. And cut people open for fun. Will that be better? Will you be less embarrassed to be my fledgling then?”
― Jennifer Armintrout, The Turning

“If you’re afraid of something, face it. Fear is irrational. The only way to conquer your fear is to put yourself next to it.”
― Jennifer Armintrout, The Turning

“Really, it's amazing. You are his other half, Alexandria, You are fated to be with him. You belong to him."

It felt like something sat heavy on my chest. "Oh.Oh.No."

Seth frowned at me. "You don't have to sound so disgusted.”
― Jennifer Armintrout

“You know, there comes a time in everyone's life when they have to carefully examine the goals they've set for themselves. When they have to admit their limitations and look at their capibilities in a more realistic way.”
― Jennifer Armintrout, The Turning

“No one’s place in this world is guaranteed. Not everyone is going to get a happy ending. But life isn’t about how it ends. It’s about the moments between. It’s about the small things. The way our loved ones laugh. The sight of a butterfly in the sunlight after a year or two in the darkness. The love and support of an old friend. They might not be with us in body, but they are with us in spirit. The feeling of something we’d thought lost to us forever returned in a single, life-changing moment. Yes, that is simple, even though it might be momentous to us as individuals. Because every day, on this planet, people are born and people die and stranger things happen. But I know my place now, and my purpose. And no matter what trial you have to endure to find that out…

It's worth it.”
― Jennifer Armintrout, All Souls' Night

“Can I have a glass of water?" Her voice was hoarse, probably from screaming. She'd always sounded like that after they'd-

He didn't just force the thought aside. He clubbed it unconscious, threw it into a crawl space and walled it up alive.”
― Jennifer Armintrout, Ashes to Ashes

“What happened to your face?"

"What happened to yours?" I retorted. "You look like a damn Oompa Loompa. You should lay off the spray tanning, Lea.”
― Jennifer Armintrout

“What?” I whined, and tried to push his hands away.

He cursed and gripped me tighter. “Wake up!” he yelled. When I didn’t, he slapped my cheek.

My eyes flew open and I sputtered in shock. “What? Just let me go back to sleep!”

“I can’t! You’ve lost a lot of blood. If you go to sleep, you’ll die.”
― Jennifer Armintrout, The Turning

“The fork fell from my fingers, splatterng mashed potatoes across the table. I mustered my best "ice princess" look at met his gaze. "You're in my personal space, buddy.”
― Jennifer Armintrout

“Lucian is nothing to me. What you saw in that office was bizarre. He must've been high on power or meth.”
― Jennifer Armintrout

“I glanced down at the dumbbel and pictures it flying across the room- at his face. But it was sch a nice face, andI'd hate to ruin it.”
― Jennifer Armintrout

“Then I smiled at her, right before I grbbed a handful of copper hair and yanked her out of the chair. Screw being a better person.”
― Jennifer Armintrout

“I rolled my eyes. He made me sound like a cunning criminal about to bring down the entire covenant.”
― Jennifer Armintrout

“That’s what happens with Millennials. They’re so used to getting participation ribbons and trophies for losing, they think everything is owed to them. They’re ungrateful.”
― Jenny Trout, Say Goodbye to Hollywood

“One of the worst parts about working in entertainment is that there’s so much you’re expected to have seen. Oh, you’re a screenwriter? You’ve seen the new Batman, then, right? I’m watching this show on Amazon, right now, and oh my god, it’s so good—but I’m sure you’ve already seen it. The reality is, I’m usually so busy on my own work, I rarely have time to see anything that isn’t required for some kind of voting.”
― Jenny Trout, Say Goodbye to Hollywood

“I love writing, but I would be able to love it more if that love wasn’t motivated by fear of homelessness.”
― Jenny Trout, Say Goodbye to Hollywood