Jenna > Jenna's Quotes

“Why didn’t you tell me that the foundation you taught me to stand on is made from quicksand?”
― Colleen Hoover, November 9

“He grins. “Can I keep you?”
― Colleen Hoover, November 9

“If I were to live a thousand years, I would belong to you for all of them. If we were to live a thousand lives, I would want to make you mine in each one.”
― Michelle Hodkin, The Evolution of Mara Dyer

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.”
― Alain de Botton

“You've got the look of a girl who's no stranger to the page. I can tell. You've got words in your soul.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“No furniture is so charming as books.”
― Sydney Smith , A Memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith; 2 volume set

“If you love books enough, books will love you back.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

“We can’t always control our circumstances, who our parents are, where we live, or how much money we make, but in those rare moments when we can shape our fate, when we do have the power to make our own happiness, we can’t be too scared to do it.”
― Renee Carlino, Swear on This Life

“It’s impossible to really hate someone if you don’t love them at least a little.”
― Renee Carlino, Swear on This Life

“He wished he’d been able to walk. So she could see him crawl toward her.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Tower of Dawn

“Hugh Biggs had whiskey eyes that didn’t look away.”
― Chloe Walsh, Releasing 10

“I’d always known I loved Hugh, but my feelings for him had deepened over the summer. Like the roots of the tall oak tree in the meadow that sprawled deep beneath the surface of the earth, the love I felt for this boy had taken ahold of my heart to the point where I honestly thought I might die without him.”
― Chloe Walsh, Releasing 10