Jaime > Jaime's Quotes

“You invite things to happen. You open the door. You inhale. And if you inhale the chaos, you give the chaos, the chaos gives back.”
― Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!

“We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils.”
― Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

“That's death and life, you see. We all shine on. You just have to release your hearts, alert your senses, and pay attention. A leaf, a star, a song, a laugh. Notice all the little things, because somebody is reaching out to you. Qualcuno ti ama. Somebody loves you.”
― Ben Sherwood, The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud

“People, generally, suck.”
― Christopher Moore, The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror

“Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him....”
― Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal

“Oh, I get it," I said. "It's a parable. Cute. Let's go eat.”
― Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal

“I love you above all things, even pie.”
― Christopher Moore, Fool

“But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.”
― Dave Eggers, What Is the What

“Still though, I think if you're not self-obsessed, you're probably boring.”
― Dave Eggers

“It is no way to live, to wait to love.”
― Dave Eggers

“I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.”
― Dave Eggers, What Is the What

“All I ever wanted was to know what to do.”
― Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!

“We see the beauty within and cannot say no.”
― Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

“I see colors like you hear jet planes.”
― Dave Eggers, How We Are Hungry

“Goddamn sometimes I only want this feeling to stay and last.”
― Dave Eggers, How We Are Hungry

“Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot.”
― Dave Eggers, What Is the What

“The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us.”
― Dave Eggers

“Why did we do that to Pluto? We had it good with Pluto.”
― Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

“Every part of my body felt electric. My chest ached and my head throbbed with the great terrible limitless possibility of the morning, and when it came, the sky was washed white, everything was new, and I hadn't slept at all.”
― Dave Eggers, What Is the What

“There's nothing to be gained from passive observance, the simple documenting of conditions, because, at its core, it sets a bad example. Every time something is observed and not fixed, or when one has a chance to give in some way and does not, there is a lie being told, the same lie we all know by heart but which needn't be reiterated.”
― Dave Eggers

“I was feeling everything too much. Everything pulled at my eyes. I spent hours floating in pools.”
― Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!

“When there is pleasure, there is often abandon, and mistakes are made.”
― Dave Eggers, What Is the What

“I had the sensation that I might always be running like this, that I would always have to run, and that I would always be able to run.”
― Dave Eggers, What Is the What

“He wanted to fly in lightweight contraptions with her.”
― Dave Eggers

“My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full thrust, the churning does not stop. The machines do not rest, the systems rarely cool. And while I can forget anything of any importance--this is why people tell me secrets--my mind has an uncanny knack for organization when it comes to pain. Nothing tormenting is ever lost, never even diminished in color or intensity or quality of sound.”
― Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!

“How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting.”
― Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!

“His lies were so exquisite I almost wept.”
― Dave Eggers, What Is the What

“You're breaking out of character, again.”
― Dave Eggers

“If you think I'm annoying and preachy now, you should have known me in grade school.”
― Dave Eggers

“Why do we pursue information that we know will never leave our heads?”
― Dave Eggers