Jenny > Jenny's Quotes

“The most beautiful part of your body
is where it’s headed. & remember,
loneliness is still time spent
with the world.”
― Ocean Vuong

“There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well - or ill?”
― John Steinbeck

“I don't think you can do this?" David said angrily.
"You don't think I can do this!"
"[ I ]don't think you can do this?"
You don't think I can do [this]!"
"What the fuck is going on?" cried David's assistant director.
"Shut the fuck up, Justin! I [don't] think you can do this!"
"You don't think [ I ] can do this?”
― Susan Choi, Trust Exercise

“To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Everything in the world was in precarious balance, pure risk, and those who didn’t agree to take the risk wasted away in a corner, without getting to know life.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name

“A promise is a promise, yet, in the end, it is only that.”
― Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties: Stories — A Story Collection About Cambodian American Life

“It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Find me now. Before someone else does.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“It was a silly age, twenty-five; too old for teenaged dreaming, too young for settling down. Every corner was a possibility and a dead end.”
― Toni Morrison, Tar Baby