Jess > Jess's Quotes

“The underlying notion of a world where the sane is insane”
― Erica Spindler, Killer Takes All

“Hard as nails Stacy Killian was one like one of those Tootsie Roll Pops - hard shell, soft, chewy center.

Once a guy knew the center could be chewed, that's what they did. Chewed you up and spit you out. Or swallowed you, bite by bite. Goodbye respect. Goodbye self-esteem.”
― Erica Spindler, Killer Takes All

“(he'd never faniced himself a butt pilot), and he'd been making up for it ever since. As far as Nemo was concerned, a day without tang was like a day without sunshine.”
― Robert Gregory Browne, Kiss Her Goodbye

“he sucked the nectar from her heart like a famished butterfly.”
― Ellen Hopkins

“empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

“you come home, and everyone talks at once and everyone asks questions, but no one waits for the answers.Instead they talk about themselves, what they've been up to, what they're going to do next,       as if you're a photo on the wall.And then they talk to one another, forgetting you've jsut flown in, forgetting you're in the backseat, forgetting they've already said it all.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

“The Screaming
flashed me back
to a time
when mom and dad
were still together
if you could call
miles apart together.”
― Ellen Hopkins

“Taking no chances means wasting your dreams..”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

“here in the summer desert, winter found my blood”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“Don't tell me what's necessary, you presumptupus pup. What's necessary is whatever I wish to do, regardless of how unnecessary it might be.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what.”
― Dean Koontz

“We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“POD is DOA.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“The things that we preceive as beautiful may be different, but the actual characteristics we ascribe to beautiful objects are similar. Think about it. When something strikes us as beautiful, it displays more presence and sharpness of shape and vividness of color, doesn't it? It stands out. It shines. It seems almost iridescent compared to the dullness of other objects less attractive.”
― James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy