Jo > Jo's Quotes

“I know you think of me as your mother only, but please remember, inside I am also just a girl.”
― Virginia Evans, The Correspondent

“I have found it to be absolutely astounding, all the trouble living has turned out to be. Things nobody ever warned me about.”
― Virginia Evans, The Correspondent

“we are thirty in our hearts, before all the disappointment, all the ways it turned out to be so much more painful than we thought it would be, but then again, it has also been magic.”
― Virginia Evans, The Correspondent

“I didn't know it was happiness at the time, because it felt like busyness and exhaustion and financial stress and self doubt.”
― Virginia Evans, The Correspondent

“You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“Perhaps you never have time when you are alone? You only acquire it by watching it go by in others".”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“My memory begins with my anger.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“Because I want to know! Sometimes, you can use what you know, but that's not what counts most. I want to know everything there is to know. Not because it's any use, but for the pleasure of knowing, and now I demand that you teach me everything you know, even if I will never be able to use it.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“Survival is never more than putting off the moment of death.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“Inevitably, with memory comes pain.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“Talking is existing.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“even a person raised in captivity learns to want, yearns to see beyond their cage. How much of our humanity is intrinsic? How much remains, when all else is stripped away?”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“what does having lived mean once you are no longer alive?”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“I wondered what would make me stop, whether it would be hunger, sleep or boredom – in other words, what prompts decisions when you are utterly alone.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“Perhaps, somewhere, humanity is flourishing under the stars, unaware that a daughter of its blood is ending her days in silence.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“Only now, I tell myself that what I'd felt for her, the trust that slowly built up, the constant preference for her company and the joy each time I was reunited with her after an expedition were probably what the women called love.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“It is impossible to predict what might happen in a world where you don't know the rules.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering and that I was human after all.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“No life is ordinary. No life is without hope, without light, even during the unimaginable.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“As long as the sheets of paper covered in my handwriting lie on this table, I can become a reality in someone’s mind.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“I lived in a perpetual present and I was gradually forgetting my story.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“Hope can blossom even in the harshest of environments.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“Nothing was ordinary, since nothing had ever happened to me.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“But human beings need to speak, otherwise they lose their humanity, as I've realized these past few years.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“I was deriving a sort of morbid pleasure from imagining myself giving in to despair,”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men