J > J's Quotes

“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“Words save our lives, sometimes.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“God has no religion.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Girls love each other like animals. There is something ferocious and unself-conscious about it. We don't guard ourselves like we do with boys. No one trains us to shield our hearts from each other. With girls, it's total vulnerability from the beginning. Our skin is bare and soft. We love with claws and teeth and the blood is just proof of how much. It's feral.

And it's relentless.”
― Leah Raeder, Black Iris

“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.”
― Théophile Gautier

“I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.”
― E. M. Forster

“There is no such thing as a perfect world – or a perfect anything –”
Zeus let out a gruff “ahem.”
“Well, perhaps excepting you, Zeus.”
― Elisa Freilich, Silent Echo

“It is better to ask for forgiveness then permission.”
― Tucker Max

“This may come as a shock to some of you, but I have a slightly volatile personality. I don’t suffer fools well.”
― Tucker Max, Hilarity Ensues

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

“Old enough to know better and young enough to want to do it anyway.”
― Stormy Glenn, Alpha Born

“Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? ”
― Ernest Gaines

“Some madness doesn't act mad to begin with, sometimes it will knock politely at the door, and when you let it in, it'll simply sit in the corner without a fuss - and grow.”
― Nathan Filer, The Shock of the Fall

“I love you. And I'm going to keep loving you even after you don't know I exist.”
― J.R. Ward, Lover Unbound

“I will not fall in love with you," she said. "I can't let myself. I won't."

"That's all right. I'll love you enough for the both of us.”
― J.R. Ward, Lover Eternal

“The worst battle you'll have to fight is between what you know and how you feel.”
― Turcois Ominek

“To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.”
― Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History

“Music is the only form of magic in this world, except maybe for love. Not that I’d know much about love.”
― J.J. Knight, Revenge

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Of course, dear. I knew the moment I saw you that we are meant for great things. I’m never wrong about these things, you know!”
― Elle Field, Kept

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

“I have good intentions, but... But what? But all the time I fail. I hurt the ones I love.”
― Blake Crouch, Pines

“They say all art—whether books, music, or visual—is a reaction to other art.”
― Blake Crouch, Pines

“The sting and the shame of all he’s put her through are still raw. He can’t say for certain, but he suspects that if she’d done the same to him, he’d already be gone.”
― Blake Crouch, Pines

“Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can feel compassion for others.”
― Brian Jacques, Redwall

“Yesterday lasts forever.
Tomorrow comes never.
Until you”
― Penelope Douglas, Bully

“The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.”
― Amy Bloom, Away

“I fell in love underneath a tree.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist