Jayne Ruesch > Jayne's Quotes

“Just kids' isn't a thing. Important stuff happens to kids. Kids do important stuff.”
― Kate Clayborn, Georgie, All Along

“I don't like thinking about what I want for my own life, because I don't think I've ever known. My job was always a good distraction from that problem.”
― Kate Clayborn, Georgie, All Along

“You are not the things that happened to you, Gideon.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, Heartless Hunter

“God is everywhere—you just have to clear your channel, or you’ll miss it.”
― Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

“if you spend too much time looking in the rearview mirror, you will crash your car.”
― Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

“The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

“It was the wanting that made my life hard. If I could only stop wanting, perhaps I might find some happiness in what I had.”
― Danielle L. Jensen, A Fate Inked in Blood

“But I wanted to do more than just survive. I wanted my days to be more than a time I needed to endure. I wanted to live them, to relish them. To find passion and excitement in them the way I had for that fleeting moment on the beach with a stranger.”
― Danielle L. Jensen, A Fate Inked in Blood

“I would not let a man who knew the value of nothing make me doubt the value of myself.”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

“I know that human life shines more brightly because it is but a shimmering candle against an eternity of darkness, and it can be extinguished with the faintest breeze.”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive, and will come forth later, in uglier ways. —SIGMUND FREUD”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“Remember, love that doesn't include honesty doesn't deserve to be called love.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“I suppose what scares me is giving in to the unknown.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“Love that doesn't include honesty doesn't deserve to be called love.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“Women can be heroes.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women

“Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women

“Live in the darkness too long, and eventually you won't recognize the light. You'll become like the monsters you hate.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, Rebel Witch

“The problem with love is the more you try to destroy it, the stronger it becomes. It might look like weakness on the surface. But in truth, it's tougher than steel. Love can't be controlled. Love can't obey unjust laws. Love will always oppose tyrants. Love is the real enemy of the regime, and that's why you despite it. It's why Cressida tries to crush it. Because you both know, deep down, it has the power to topple you.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, Rebel Witch

“Rich people, thought Judy—she thought this then, and she thinks it now—generally become most enraged when they sense they’re about to be held accountable for their wrongs.”
― Liz Moore, The God of the Woods

“the quickest way to make an attractive man ugly was to give him too much to drink.”
― Liz Moore, The God of the Woods

“Hate is a knife without a handle. You can't cut something with it without cutting yourself.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

“Sometimes the thing we want most in the world is the thing we're most afraid of. And the thing we're most afraid of is often the thing we most want.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

“Haven't you ever missed anybody? When they're gone, a day feels like a million years.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

“People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Someone needs to tell those tales. When the battles are fought and won and lost, when the pirates find their treasures and the dragons eat their foes for breakfast with a nice cup of Lapsang souchong, someone needs to tell their bits of overlapping narrative. There's magic in that. It's in the listener, and for each and every ear it will be different, and it will affect them in ways they can never predict. From the mundane to the profound. You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows what they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift. Your sister may be able to see the future, but you yourself can shape it, boy. Do not forget that... there are many kinds of magic, after all.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Why and if. The two most painful words in existence”
― Kate Quinn, The Rose Code