Jewel > Jewel's Quotes

“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.”
― Jack Kerouac

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“I have only ever been truly frightened of boredom and loneliness,” she says. It”
― Eowyn Ivey, To the Bright Edge of the World

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“You cannot save people. You can only love them.”
― Anaïs Nin

“When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win.”
― Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

“Americans lack any deeper appreciation of class. Beyond white anger and ignorance is a far more complicated history of class identity that dates back to America’s colonial period and British notions of poverty.”
― Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

“You do not write your life with words, the monster said. You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do. There”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“If people had true knowledge of the world perhaps they would not take up arms and so perhaps he could be an aggregator of information from distant places and then the world would be a more peaceful place. He had been perfectly serious. That illusion had lasted from age forty-nine to age sixty-five. And”
― Paulette Jiles, News of the World

“Please, go away!" Ignatius screamed. "You're shattering my religious ecstasy.”
― John Kennedy Toole

“Maybe life is just carrying news. Surviving to carry the news. Maybe we have just one message, and it is delivered to us when we are born and we are never sure what it says; it may have nothing to do with us personally but it must be carried by hand through a life, all the way, and at the end handed over, sealed. He”
― Paulette Jiles, News of the World

“Because it’s true: more than the highlights, the bright events, it was in the small and the daily where she’d found life.”
― Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies

“Women in narratives were always defined by their relations.”
― Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies

“Storytelling is a landscape, and tragedy is comedy is drama. It simply depends on how you frame what you’re seeing.”
― Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies

“[Grief is pain internalized, abscess of the soul. Anger is pain as energy, sudden explosion.]”
― Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“That’s what you are. Argue with anything else, but don’t argue with your own nature.”
― Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials

“That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling.”
― Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials

“Despite its reputation, Appalachia—especially northern Alabama and Georgia to southern Ohio—has far lower church attendance than the Midwest, parts of the Mountain West, and much of the space between Michigan and Montana. Oddly enough, we think we attend church more than we actually do. In a recent Gallup poll, Southerners and Midwesterners reported the highest rates of church attendance in the country. Yet actual church attendance is much lower in the South.”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

“We need 4 hugs a day for survival.
We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance.
We need 12 hugs a day for growth.”
― Virginia Satir

“Libraries are safe but also exciting. Libraries are where nerds like me go to refuel. They are safe-havens where the polluted noise of the outside world, with all the bullies and bro-dudes and anti-feminist rhetoric, is shut out. Libraries have zero tolerance for bullshit. Their walls protect us and keep us safe from all the bastards that have never read a book for fun. I”
― Gabby Rivera, Juliet Takes a Breath

“Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief.”
― Alison Bechdel

“It made sense that these adult women worked hard on their friendships, even when sex and romantic love weren't part of the equation. It made me wonder about all the ways that we are able to love each other and how movies and TV make it seem like you have to discard people once they break your heart or once the love disappears. Maybe that was a horrible lie, a complete disservice to real love.”
― Gabby Rivera, Juliet Takes a Breath

“Skin color is basically a measure of the local ultraviolet levels, and it is controlled by relatively minor adaptive changes in the genome.”
― Bill Nye, Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation

“The takeaway message here, as Jablonski points out, is that there is no such thing as different races of humans. Any differences we traditionally associate with race are a product of our need for vitamin D and our relationship to the Sun. Just a few clusters of genes control skin color; the changes in skin color are recent; they’ve gone back and forth with migrations; they are not the same even among two groups with similarly dark skin; and they are tiny compared to the total human genome. So skin color and “race” are neither significant nor consistent defining traits. We all descended from the same African ancestors, with little genetic separation from each other. The different colors or tones of skin are the result of an evolutionary response to ultraviolet light in local environments. Everybody has brown skin tinted by the pigment melanin. Some people have light brown skin. Some people have dark brown skin. But we all are brown, brown, brown.”
― Bill Nye, Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation