Jere Veasley > Jere's Quotes

“Those who can best cope with setbacks have the greatest chance of fortune.”
― Annejet van der Zijl, An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew

“It was the way they had exploited his schizophrenia to their advantage, wielding it to maim a man who was already mentally crippled.”
― Vivian Barz, Forgotten Bones

“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
― Amanda Lamb, Love Lies: A True Story of Marriage and Murder in the Suburbs

“Vengeance,” Pino said calmly, feeling weirdly out of his body. “Italians believe in it, mon général. Italians believe bloodshed is good for the wounded soul.”
― Mark T. Sullivan, Beneath a Scarlet Sky

“If God makes all our faces, did he laugh when he made me? Does he make the legs that cannot walk and eyes that cannot see? Does he curl the hair upon my head 'til it rebels in wild defiance? Does he close the ears of the deaf man to make him more reliant? Is the way I look coincidence or just a twist of fate? If he made me this way, is it okay, to blame him for the things I hate? For the flaws that seem to worsen every time I see a mirror, For the ugliness I see in me, for the loathing and the fear. Does he sculpt us for his pleasure, for a reason I can't see? If God makes all our faces, did he laugh when he made me?”
― Amy Harmon, Making Faces

“The development of our personalities doesn’t take place in isolation, but in relationship with others—we are shaped and completed by unseen, unremembered forces; namely, our parents. This is frightening, for obvious reasons. Who”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“If only she could join in, belong to them. Kya knew it wasn’t so much that the herd would be incomplete without one of its deer, but that each deer would be incomplete without her herd.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“The ones that test the limits sometimes do the most amazing things in life. That’s what I’ve always thought.”
― Gregg Olsen, Lying Next to Me

“Silence sat between us, shivering with misery.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
― Neil Gaiman

“lagged”
― Loreth Anne White, A Dark Lure

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches