Jackson Kreck > Jackson's Quotes

“I see you made it Jack,’ he started to say, noticing a silver sphere roll across the loading bay floor. It stopped just short of his shoes before it exploded.”
― A.R. Merrydew, The Girl with the Porcelain Lips

“Her is closer than ever to the top of Namsan Tower.”
― Raz Mihal, Just Love Her

“Do you still distrust me?”
“No. Take your necklace with you so you can think of me when I’m not there.”
Brown brought the necklace over to her and put it on her neck.
“I think it rather suits me,” she laughed and left.
Brown didn’t understand what had made him insist she wear the necklace. Maybe it
was the readiness with which she had made love, or her frequent disappearances lately,
he was just curious. There was no harm in checking, before he parted with the money.
Later that evening, before going to sleep he decided to have a look at her location and
he was in for a surprise. She had not left Central City at all. In fact she was at the same
friend’s address as she had been the last time.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

“And then he says it, right there on the Hill, and of all the words I have hidden and saved and treasured, these are the ones I will never forget, the most important ones of all. 'I love you.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“The present was too urgent to let the past intrude.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

“I felt like an Israeli girl soldier, in shorts and the hot wind, sighting down the barrel of the rifle, holding the .38 with both hands. It was a strange feeling, him looking at me as I aimed. I found I couldn't quite lose myself in the target. His eyes split my attention between the C in Coke and my awareness of him watching me. And I thought, this was what it was like to be beautiful.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“parecía que la única virtud de Mamá Elena era la de encontrar defectos.”
― Laura Esquivel, Como agua para chocolate

“Простая душа, наивность - это дар, а не недостаток. Душа, ещё не изглоданная скепсисом и всей этой интеллигентской заумью. В жизни побеждают люди не мудрствующие, все же прочие видят слишком много препятствий и теряют уверенность, не успев ничего начать.В трудные времена такая простота - неоценимое благо, как палочка-выручалочка, спасает от опасностей, которые прямо-таки засасывают умника!”
― Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades