Jenna > Jenna's Quotes

“Studies show:
Intelligent girls are more depressed
Because they know
What the world is really like
Don't think for a beat it makes it better
When you sit her down and tell her
Everything gonna be all right
She knows in society she either is
A devil or an angel with no in between
She speaks in the third person
So she can forget that she's me”
― Emilie Autumn

“You're trying to block out every bit of noise. But people are made of noise, Mac. The world is full of noise. And finding quiet isn't about pushing everything out. It's just about pulling yourself in.”
― Victoria Schwab, The Archived

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

“Day followed day, each one a little different from the one before...but the little house stayed just the same.”
― Virginia Lee Burton, The Little House

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespear, Hamlet

“We know what we are, but not what we may be.”
― William Shakespeare

“I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.”
― Philip Levine

“We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“Without movement there is no Life...We should use our energy to the fullest.”
― Ai Qing

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
― E.M. Forster

“Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.”
― Louise Erdrich

“It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.”
― Allan Gurganus

“It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”
― Bill Watterson

“Give me your honest opinion. I don't want truth with a veil on—I like naked ladies naked.”
― Christina Stead, Miss Herbert (the suburban wife)

“Talk between women friends is always therapy...”
― Jayne Anne Phillips

“Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.”
― Patrick O'Brian, The Hundred Days

“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.”
― S.E. Hinton

“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
― Isabel Allende

“Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.”
― Jonathan Kellerman

“There are no happy endings.
Endings are the saddest part,
So just give me a happy middle
And a very happy start.”
― Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It

“You can't lie to your soul.”
― Irvine Welsh, Porno

“... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.”
― Tracy Kidder, Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness

“I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”
― Susan Sontag

“Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place.”
― Harlan Coben, Promise Me