Jo > Jo's Quotes

“I'm the hero of this story, I don't need to be saved”
― Regina Spektor

“This is how it works
You're young until you're not
You love until you don't
You try until you can't
You laugh until you cry
You cry until you laugh
And everyone must breathe
Until their dying breath

No, this is how it works
You peer inside yourself
You take the things you like
And try to love the things you took
And then you take that love you made
And stick it into some
Someone else's heart
Pumping someone else's blood
And walking arm in arm
You hope it don't get harmed
But even if it does
You'll just do it all again”
― Regina Spektor

“And people are just people,
They shouldn't make you nervous.
The world is everlasting,
It's coming and it's going.”
― Regina Spektor

“I'm just a soul whose intentions are good. Oh lord please don't let me be misunderstood.”
― Regina Spektor

“Maybe one day you’ll understand I don’t want nothing more than to sweetly hold your hand.”
― Regina Spektor

“You've spent half of your life
Trying to fall behind
You're using your headphones
Just to drown out your mind.”
― Regina Spektor

“Love what you have and you’ll have more love.”
― Regina Spektor

“The mind of the subject will desperately struggle to create memories where none exist...”
― R. Lutece

“If the modern world were a patient in my care... I would diagnose it suicidal." - Dr. Sofia Lamb”
― John Shirley, BioShock: Rapture

“There's two ways to deal with mystery: uncover it, or eliminate it.”
― Andrew Ryan

“What is a drop of rain, compared to the storm? What is a thought, compared to the mind? Our unity is full of wonder which your tiny individualism cannot even conceive.”
― Ken Levine

“She is something new, something hopeful. Like spring to my deep winter.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“My love, my love
Remember the cries
When winter died for spring skies
They roared and roared
But we grabbed our seed
And sowed a song
Against their greed

And
Down in the vale
Hear the reaper swing, the reaper swing
the reaper swing
Down in the vale
Hear the reaper sing
A tale of winter done

My son, my son
Remember the chains
When gold ruled with iron reins
We roared and roared
And twisted and screamed
For ours, a vale
of better dreams”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Sharpened by hate. Strengthened by love.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Things are always better in the morning.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“You may lie.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“Pretending doesn't keep you safe.”
― Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue

“To sadden. To bloom. To bleed. What a strange set of words.”
― Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue

“Never hurry and never worry!”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

“If you are a dreamer, come in,
If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,
A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer...
If you're a pretender come sit by my fire
For we have some flax-golden tales to spin.
Come in!
Come in!”
― Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends

“And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.”
― Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends

“He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.”
― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

“I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“I believe in no God, no invisible man in the sky. But there is something more powerful than each of us, a combination of our efforts, a Great Chain of industry that unites us. But it is only when we struggle in our own interest that the chain pulls society in the right direction. The chain is too powerful and too mysterious for any government to guide. Any man who tells you different either has his hand in your pocket, or a pistol to your neck. —Andrew Ryan”
― John Shirley, BioShock: Rapture

“No one can pull anyone back from anywhere. You save yourself or you remain unsaved.”
― Alice Sebold, Lucky

“When you serve a beer-cock an ear.”
― John Shirley, BioShock: Rapture

“My life was over; my life had just begun.”
― Alice Sebold, Lucky