Jill A. Davis > Quotes

“Happy endings aren't for cowards.”
― Jill A. Davis, Girls' Poker Night

“Second chances do come your way. Like trains, they arrive and depart regularly. Recognizing the ones that matter is the trick.”
― Jill A. Davis, Ask Again Later

“Lost people are different. They will drive around in the same circle over and over rather than try a new path. Their fear of getting more lost paralyzes them into staying lost in the area that's just become familiar. It supersedes their ability to chart a new course. They circle and backtrack and stay comfortably lost because it's less scary than seeing something different than what's presently in front of them.”
― jill a. davis

“The surprise is that you continue to be surprised.”
― Jill A. Davis, Ask Again Later

“I daydream - and get paid for it. I recall a scene from An Officer and a Gentleman. At the end of the movie Richard Gere, dressed in his naval whites, goes into a factory, picks up Debra Winger, and carries her out of that depressing place with all of those dirty machines.

I wish that would happen to me. Of course the whole time I'd be worried that the guy was trying to guess my weight or something. I realize how truly pathetic I am. Some guy in a uniform drags his woman out of the workplace to stick her in a house to cook and possibly even clip coupons, and I am staring to buy into it, into the anti-female propaganda disguised as romance. As soon as he picks her up, things have to head south from there, because at some point, he has to put her down.”
― Jill A. Davis, Ask Again Later

“The number of family secrets is just staggering.”
― Jill A. Davis, Ask Again Later

“I'm one of those people who other people like but never remember. I think most of the world is probably like me. Until recently nothing about me was outstanding, and then my mother got cancer. It's a disease people like to talk about, so I'm more popular now. And when I flip through magazines, I read the breast cancer articles first, even before the numerology column.”
― Jill A. Davis, Ask Again Later

“When pressed to tell people how I got myself into my current nepotism-gone-bad situation, I like to describe it as a mini-breakdown. The prefix makes all the difference. It makes it sound more like a vacation than a condition best treated with medication and art therapy.”
― Jill A. Davis, Ask Again Later

“Olakšanje je izgovoriti istinu i zbog toga biti voljen, a ne prezren.”
― Jill A. Davis