Jack Davidson > Jack's Quotes

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Because we all need to believe in movies, sometimes.”
― pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You

“my heart woke me crying last night
how can i help i begged
my heart said
write the book”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

“He unzipped his hooded top and took it off, and wished emotions were like clothes, that he could remove them, fold them, set them somewhere.”
― Nick Laird, Glover's Mistake

“I always thought there would be more interesting people at my wedding.”
― Sarah Ruhl, Eurydice

“I used to love you very much.”
― Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman

“I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature.”
― Harold Pinter, Betrayal

“There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.”
― Harold Pinter, Old Times

“Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.”
― Bertolt Brecht

“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. 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 hurricane.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.”
― Philip Larkin

“I sleep. I dream. I make up things that I would never say. I say them very quietly.”
― Richard Siken

“I write to find out what I'm talking about.”
― Edward Albee

“Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed”
― Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City

“Always tell the truth. It's the easiest thing to remember.”
― David Mamet

“He said, “I think at various times in life we’re either more or less true to who we really are.”
― Rebecca Kauffman, The Gunners

“Dear me, whatever shall we do with mother?”
― James Goldman, The Lion in Winter

“Well, what family doesn't have its ups and downs?”
― James Goldman, The Lion in Winter

“I know. You know I know. I know you know I know. We know Henry knows, and Henry knows we know it. We're a knowledgeable family.”
― James Goldman, The Lion in Winter

“Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have left to hold onto.”
― David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames

“I wish I could put a pen in your hand and gently remind you how the world has given you poetry and now you must give it back.”
― Lang Leav, Memories

“There was someone called Hippasus in Greek times who found out about the diagonal of a square and they drowned him because no one wanted to know about things like that. Like what? Numbers that make you uncomfortable and don’t relate to oranges.”
― Caryl Churchill, Love and Information

“I think maybe heaven is a sea of untranslatable jokes. Only everyone is laughing.”
― Sarah Ruhl, The Clean House and Other Plays

“In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.”
― Lauren Groff

“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“What the hell is that?" I laughed.
"It's my fox hat."
"Your fox hat?"
"Yeah, Pudge. My fox hat."
"Why are you wearing your fox hat?" I asked.
"Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either”
― James M. Cain

“Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.”
― Stephen King

“no one ever says good-bye unless they want to see you again. aa”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down