Jessica Alcott > Quotes

“We're just imagining a possibility. Something to believe in. That's all writing is: making sense out of chaos' giving random events narrative and purpose and meaning.”
― Jessica Alcott, Even When You Lie to Me

“I’d had crushes before, but this was worse than anything I’d ever felt. It started in my stomach and soon it was everywhere, spreading outward like an infection; it swallowed my concentration, blotted out my other interests, consumed whole days I would have normally spent reading. I felt like a tuning fork perpetually vibrating at his frequency. It happened suddenly: one day I barely noticed it and the next it felt like it had always been there and I would never be able to shake it.”
― Jessica Alcott, Even When You Lie to Me

“But the thing is, the more you learn, the more you realize how much there is that you’ll never know. The point of education is not to teach you everything there is to learn but to teach you how to learn - how to interpret meaning.”
― Jessica Alcott, Even When You Lie to Me

“All intellectually curious people feel that way,” he said. “Only incurious people feel comfortable with how little they know.”
― Jessica Alcott, Even When You Lie to Me

“The loneliness felt like an infection I couldn't shake, something hollowing me out from the inside. It wasn't the longing for him that hurt the most; it was the gnawing feeling that no one wanted me and I had no idea when, or if, that would ever change.”
― Jessica Alcott