Joyce Pennington > Joyce's Quotes

“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Why not think that sometimes—just sometimes—you can overcome evil with silence? And let people hear their hatefulness in their own ears, without distraction. Maybe goodness is enough to expose evil for what it really is, sometimes.”
― Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Inferno

“Kindness is never wasted.”
― Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Inferno

“Sometimes goodness doesn't tell everything it knows. Sometimes goodness waits for the appropriate time and does the best it can with what it has.”
― Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Inferno

“Evil had its own logic and it was not something he, given his own moral code, would ever understand. And humans think we are monsters.”
― Sylvain Reynard, The Shadow

“He was handsome. One might even say he was beautiful, with blond hair, gray eyes, and a youthful appearance. His body, although less than six feet tall, was lean and muscular beneath his black suit.”
― Sylvain Reynard, The Prince

“But some days, he looked as if he’d been up all night drinking, hung over with whatever he’d done in his past, buried beneath guilt and disgrace.”
― Pepper Winters, Unseen Messages

“Some grief is so great, it can't be felt; it can only be observed. Or denied.”
― Sylvain Reynard, The Shadow

“Oh, Psyche. “‘Fortune doth menace unto thee imminent danger, wherof I wish thee greatly to beware. . . . thou shalt purchase to mee great sorrow, and to thyself utter destruction. . . . Beware that ye covet not . . . to see the shape of my person, lest by your curiosity you deprive your selfe of so great and worthy estate.”
― Sylvain Reynard, The Raven

“A bird in a cage is never as beautiful as a bird that is free [...].”
― Sylvain Reynard, The Raven

“I didn't know what darkness was until I lost you.”
― Sylvain Reynard, The Raven

“I’d donated everything I was to those I loved. I would die for them. I would survive for them. And nothing was better than that. Nothing.”
― Pepper Winters, Unseen Messages

“He was my havoc, my harmony, my only chance at hope. I”
― Pepper Winters, Unseen Messages