Jake Merris > Jake's Quotes

“We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.”
― Ira Glass

“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.”
― Peter Jackson, The Art of The Return of the King

“Magnus, you were trying to flirt with your own plate."

"I'm a very open-minded sort of fellow!”
― Cassandra Clare, The Bane Chronicles

“Where am I?" Magnus croaked.
"Nazca."
"Oh, so we went on a little trip."
"You broke into a man's house," Catarina said. "You stole a carpet and enchanted it to fly. Then you sped off into the night air. We pursued you on foot."
"Ah," said Magnus.
"You were shouting some things."
"What things?"
"I prefer not to repeat them," Catarina said. "I also prefer not to remember the time we spent in the desert. It is a mammoth desert, Magnus. Ordinary deserts are quite large. Mammoth deserts are so called because they are larger than ordinary deserts."
"Thank you for that interesting and enlightening information," Magnus croaked.
"You told us to leave you in the desert, because you planned to start a new life as a cactus," Catarina said, her voice flat. "Then you conjured up tiny needles and threw them at us. With pinpoint accuracy."
"Well," he said with dignity. "Considering my highly intoxicated state, you must have been impressed with my aim."
"'Impressed' is not the word to use to describe how I felt last night, Magnus."
"I thank you for stopping me there," Magnus said. "It was for the best. You are a true friend. No harm done. Let's say no more about it. Could you possibly fetch me - "
"Oh, we couldn't stop you," Catarina interrupted. "We tried, but you giggled, leaped onto the carpet, and flew away again. You kept saying that you wanted to go to Moquegua."
"What did I do in Moquegua?"
"You never got there," Catarina said. "But you were flying about and yelling and trying to, ahem, write messages for us with your carpet in the sky."
"We then stopped for a meal," Catarina said. "You were most insistent that we try a local specialty that you called cuy. We actually had a very pleasant meal, even though you were still very drunk."
"I'm sure I must have been sobering up at that point," Magnus argued.
"Magnus, you were trying to flirt with your own plate."
"I'm a very open-minded sort of fellow!"
"Ragnor is not," Catarina said. "When he found out that you were feeding us guinea pigs, he hit you over the head with your plate. It broke."
"So ended our love," Magnus said. "Ah, well. It would never have worked between me and the plate anyway. I'm sure the food did me good, Catarina, and you were very good to feed me and put me to bed - "
Catarina shook her head."You fell down on the floor. Honestly, we thought it best to leave you sleeping on the ground. We thought you would remain there for some time, but we took our eyes off you for one minute, and then you scuttled off. Ragnor claims he saw you making for the carpet, crawling like a huge demented crab.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Bane Chronicles

“Hello, companion," said Magnus.

The monkey made a terrible sound, half snarl and half hiss.

"I begin to rather doubt the beauty of our friendship," said Magnus.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Bane Chronicles

“Trust. It is like placing a blade in someone's hand and setting the very point to your heart.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Bane Chronicles

“Stop saying no offense,” I said, “when you say offensive things. It’s not a free pass.”
― Daniel Handler, Why We Broke Up

“Either you have the feeling or you don't. Hawk Davies”
― Daniel Handler, Why We Broke Up

“I'm telling you why we broke up, Ed. I'm writing this letter, the whole truth of why it happened. And the truth is that I goddamn loved you so much.”
― Daniel Handler, Why We Broke Up

“You either have the feeling or you don’t.”
― Daniel Handler, Why We Broke Up

“Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“Kinder than is necessary. Because it's not enough to be kind. One should be kinder than needed.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“I mean, at the end of the day, what the hell does it matter who I end up with if it can't be you?”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“How can something so wrong feel so right?”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“He is my soul mate, my fresh air, the reason I look forward to getting up every morning.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“How-how can we make it against the whole world?”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“Before there was anything, there was Lochan.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“Otherwise I'll fall apart. I'm going to fall apart. I am falling apart.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“If I keep breathing, then I have to keep living, and if I keep living, then I have to keep hurting, and I can't - not like this.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“Lochie. The boy I once loved. The boy I still love. The boy I will continue to love, even when my part in this world is over too.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“Nothing can relieve the pain. Not crying, laughing, screaming, begging. Nothing can change the past.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“I think I’m going to die from happiness. I think I’m going to die from pain.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“Y de repente me di cuenta que, mientras tuviera a Lochan, nada ni nadie podría hacerme daño.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“Talking to adults is bearable; it’s talking to people my age that’s impossible.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“whatever happens ,there will always be us.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“Estar juntos, no dañamos a nadie; permanecer apartados, nos extinguimos.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“Everything begins only to end. The moment you were born you began to die. That's how it is with everything.”
― Janne Teller, Nothing