J Kromrie > J's Quotes

“My math is never sharper as when I meet an old girlfriend with a kid.”
― Kelsey Grammer

“It was as if we were having two different conversations. Which wasn’t that surprising after all, as we were clearly having two entirely different experiences of breaking up. His was soft, cushioned; Jude and his friends had broken his fall. Mine was cold, empty and bereft. I was freefalling in space and time, with nobody standing by to stop me hurtling headlong into obscurity.”
― Ruth Mancini, Swimming Upstream

“There it was again: “Came in to see us”, as if it were an enjoyable little day trip that lots of people made, just because it was such a nice place to be.”
― Ruth Mancini, Swimming Upstream

“It's a strange kind of irony. The things that affect us most are the things we can't remember" (from Swimming Upstream).”
― Ruth Mancini, Swimming Upstream

“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
― Ruth Mancini, Swimming Home

“Who's to say whose pain is greater, or lesser than anyone else's? We are all unique beings and pain... we must try to empathise; but never measure.”
― Ruth Mancini, Swimming Upstream

“We’re humans; we’re all flawed.”
― Ruth Mancini, Swimming Upstream

“know your own truths.”
― Ruth Mancini, Swimming Upstream

“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”   —ATTRIBUTED TO BOB MARLEY”
― Ruth Mancini, Swimming Home

“People often ask me where I get my ideas from. The answer is that I’m a criminal defence lawyer as well as a writer and so there is a wealth of material at my fingertips. As I head off to court or the police station, I know that whatever the offence or the facts of the case I’m about to deal with there will be something that makes it different from the last. No two days are the same, that’s for sure.”
― Ruth Mancini

“Man is the cruelest animal," says Zarathustra. "When gazing at tragedies, bull-fights, crucifixations he hath hitherto felt happier than at any other time on Earth. And when he invented Hell...lo, Hell was his Heaven on Earth"; he could put up with suffering now, by contemplating the eternal punishment of his oppressors in the other world.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Being forgotten, she thinks, is a bit like going mad. You begin to wonder what is real, if you are real. After all, how can a thing be real if it cannot be remembered?”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Once you know about a thing, you start to see it everywhere.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“A dreamer,” scorns her mother.

“A dreamer,” mourns her father.

“A dreamer,” warns Estele.

Still, it does not seem such a bad word.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Life is a tragedy to those who feel and a comedy to those who think.”
― Molière