Jaanaki > Jaanaki's Quotes

“i don't pay attention to the
world ending.
it has ended for me
many times
and began again in the morning.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

“The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. Look hard. Risk that.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing what it feels like to be a selfish jackass first.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“People in this country, always worrying about how to eat, they pay someone good money to tell them: Eat this, don’t eat that. If you don’t know how to eat, what else can you know how to do in this world?”
― Imbolo Mbue, Behold the Dreamers

“But the Universe gives us different sources of Love to unite us all as One. Who are we to decide what the source of our Love should be at any given time? Love is Love, and at any given point we have everything we need.”
― Imbolo Mbue, Behold the Dreamers

“Who wants to die?’ he asked. ‘Everyone wants to live, everyone – even the most miserable worm is screaming for life! I want to live, too. But maybe it’s a good thing, Anna, even in the midst of life to think of a wretched death, and to get ready for it. So that you know you’ll be able to die properly, without moaning and whimpering. That would be disgusting to me…”
― Hans Fallada, Alone in Berlin

“Coffins and coffins, enough for everyone on the shift, enough for everyone in Germany! The men are still alive, but they are already making their own coffins.”
― Hans Fallada, Alone in Berlin

“Wake up the baby,’ I order Aarti. So we sing loudly, clang saucepans and switch on Arnab Goswami. Tara sleeps through it all.”
― Payal Kapadia, Maidless in Mumbai

“Every moment of one’s existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.”
― Norman Mailer, Advertisements for Myself

“When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.”
― Friedrich Nietzche

“According to Nietzche," said a sharp new voice, making them all jump, "philosophy is the biography of the philosopher.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy

“Sonora Pass is not a graphic novel for light weights Dude”
― Jaime Olmos, Sonora Pass

“And suddenly, I feel like crying, but not in a bad way. More like in the way you feel when someone gives you a perfect present—something you’d been wanting, but thought you couldn’t ask for. It’s that feeling of someone knowing you in all the ways you needed to be known.”
― Becky Albertalli, The Upside of Unrequited

“Because I have to admit: there's something really badass about truly, honestly not caring what people think about you.”
― Becky Albertalli, The Upside of Unrequited

“But you know, there’s an upside here. Because when you spend so much time just intensely wanting something, and then you actually get the thing? It’s magic.” All”
― Becky Albertalli, The Upside of Unrequited

“I never really know the protocol for this kind of situation. It's like when you're in line at a store, and a grandma starts telling you all about her grandchildren or her arthritis, and you smile and nod along. But then it's your turn to check out, so you're just like okay, well, good-bye forever.”
― Becky Albertalli, The Upside of Unrequited

“Sometimes people don’t understand
the promises they’re making when they make them,” I said.
Isaac shot me a look. “Right, of course.
But you keep the promise anyway. That’s
what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don’t you believe in true love?”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“No one is ever the villain of their own story.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
― Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein

“In my junior year I discovered books. . . . Devoured [them] the way other kids did candy or sandwiches, spent days hunched over . . . my spine an oversized question mark.”
― James Sallis, The Long-Legged Fly

“We aren’t angels. Angels couldn’t breathe the air down here. They’d die.”
― James Sallis, The Long-Legged Fly

“In the darkness things always go away from you. Memory holds you down while regret and sorrow kick hell out of you. The only help you'll get is a few hard drinks and morning.”
― James Sallis, The Long-Legged Fly

“The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life: By Ralph Waldo Emerson

“that nothing will ever make sense again, but we still need to seek goodness wherever we go. She”
― Abby Fabiaschi, I Liked My Life

“love, compassion, and forgiveness are capacities you have to actively engage because experiences will strip you of them if you aren’t careful. I”
― Abby Fabiaschi, I Liked My Life

“plant yourself in a place that gives you room to grow; let the light in; everyone needs help to survive; have patience. The”
― Abby Fabiaschi, I Liked My Life

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
― Mother Teresa

“At times, the solution to a maze is to reduce it to embers ans walk straight through the ashes."
― Mary Doria Russell, Children of God”
― Mary Doria Russell

“In every village there is a candle, the teacher;
and an extinguisher, the clergy.”
― Victor Hugo

“She noted, more than once, that the meteor shower was happening, beyond the overcast sky, even if we could not see it. Who cares if she can kiss? She can see through the clouds.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down