Jacey > Jacey's Quotes

“You don't want to be forgotten
You just want to disappear”
― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

“So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“there's things you still don't know about me
like sometimes i'm afraid my sadness is too big
and that one day you might have to help me handle it”
― Lana Del Rey, Violent Bent Backwards Over The Grass

“She didn't understand the horror of watching your body star in something your mind didn't agree to.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“You know that there are no black people in Africa,” she said. Most Americans, weaned on the myth of drawable lines between human beings, have to sit with that statement. It sounds nonsensical to our ears. Of course there are black people in Africa. There is a whole continent of black people in Africa. How could anyone not see that? “Africans are not black,” she said. “They are Igbo and Yoruba, Ewe, Akan, Ndebele. They are not black. They are just themselves. They are humans on the land. That is how they see themselves, and that is who they are.” What we take as gospel in American culture is alien to them, she said. “They don’t become black until they go to America or come to the U.K.,” she said. “It is then that they become black.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

“And it was Du Bois who, decades before, had invoked an Indian concept in channeling the bitter cry of his people in America: “Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house?”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

“He experienced the singular pleasure of watching people he loved fall in love with other people he loved.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Ignorance is no protection from the consequences for inaction.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

“What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“I love the smell of her warm skin mixed with her Wings perfume. I'm so happy she's happy.”
― Jeannette McCurdy

“May my eyes always stay level to the horizon
may they never gaze as high as heaven
to ask why
The whys in this lifetime i’ve found
are inconsequential compared to the magic of the nowness
which is the solution to most questions”
― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

“Never to Heaven

May my eyes always stay level to the horizon
may they never gaze as high as heaven
to ask why
May I never go where angels fear to tread
so as to have to ask for answers in the sky
The whys in this lifetime i've found are inconsequential
compared to the magic of the nowness- the
solution to most
questions
there are no reasons.
and if there are- i'm wrong
but at least i won't have spent my life waiting
looking for God in the clouds of the dawn
or listening out for otherworldly contact
30 billion light years on
No. i'll let the others do the pondering
while i'll be sitting on the lawn
reading something unsubstantial
with the television on

I'll be up early to rise though of course-
but only to make you a pot of coffee
That's what i was thinking this morning Joe
that it's times like this as the marine layer lifts
off the sea from the view of our favourite
restaurant
that i pray that i may
always keep my eyes level to your eyeline
never downcast at the tablecloth
Yes Joe
it's times like this as the marine layer lifts
off the sea on the dock with the candle lit
that i think to myself
there are things you still don't know about me
like sometimes i'm afraid my sadness is too big
and that one day you might have to help me handle it

but until then
may i always keep my eyes level to this skyline
assessing the glittering new development
off of the coast of Long Beach
never to heaven or revenant

Because i have faith in man as strange as that seems
in times like these
and it's not just because of the warmth i've found
in your
brown eyes

but because i believe in the goodness in me
that it's firm enough to plant a flag in
or a
rosebud
or to build a new life.”
― Lana Del Rey

“Not my best friend though,” Mom continues. “You’re my best friend, Net. You’re Mommy’s best friend.” I beam. I’m so happy to be her best friend. To be the closest person in the world to her. This is my purpose. I feel whole.”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

“He broke my heart. You merely broke my life.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Why haven’t I heard the Holy Ghost? I’d ask in my prayers. Is there something I’ve done wrong that has made me not deserve him? Is it my impure thoughts about Frankie Muniz?”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

“I measure time by the days I've spent away from you/ that thought occurred to me/ as i watched the sky go dark from blue”
― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

“Does he really believe he’d ever go to prison, a Harvard-educated, well-spoken white man?”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“Mom looked stunned then hung up the phone and started wailing like somebody died. It was the first time I wished that I was prettier...”
― Jeannette McCurdy

“Marcus built the computer in his computer-building class at high school and I bought all the add-ons with the check from my co-star appearance on CSI, where I played a murderer's sister. The part was emotionally draining, but after mom said I could buy Microsoft Word and The Sims with the part of my paycheck she wasn't using for bills, it was worth it.”
― Jeannette McCurdy

“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Color is a fact. Race is a social construct.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

“A little girl shouldn’t have to worry about her entire family,’ Grandpa says to me one afternoon….

‘What?’ I ask, not because I didn’t hear what he said, but because I’m confused. Of course a little girl should worry about her entire family. That’s what little girls do.

‘I just…’ He steps closer to me. ‘I just think…you deserve to be a kid.”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

“I love u
But u don’t understand me
You see
I’m a real poet
My life is my poetry
My lovemaking is my legacy”
― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

“Because i have faith in man as strange as that seems
in times like these
and it’s not just because of the warmth i’ve found in your
brown eyes-
it’s because I believe in the goodness in me
that it’s firm enough to plant a flag in
or a rosebud
or to build a new life.”
― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

“You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Somehow I sensed what was coming for me even then. Really, though, what girl doesn’t? It looms over you, that threat of violence. They drill the danger into your head until it starts to feel inevitable. You grow up wondering when it’s finally going to happen.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“There must be a point where you’re allowed to be defined by something other than what he did to you.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby