Jade > Jade's Quotes

“I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest.”
― Clarice Lispector

“She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

“Live or die, but don't poison everything.”
― Anne Sexton

“I met the wolf alone and was devoured in peace.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, Collected Poems

“I . . . cannot fall asleep because there is a foreign feeling in my veins, it is the feeling of finally getting what I wanted, and the feeling is colder than I ever thought it would be.”
― Samantha Hunt, The Seas

“Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you’re falling to the floor crying thinking, “I am falling to the floor crying,” but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it — you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn’t paint it very well.”
― Richard Siken

“He slept with his back to me, which made me jealous of his dreams. Hey. Hey. Wake up.”
― Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays

“I think about your face when I used to ask you a question, any old bit of nonsense. Your face would be tense, apprehensive, at the pointlessness of my questions. You never realized that I was asking without expecting any answer, just out of a simple need to confirm that you were there with me, my hand seeking yours, seeking any affection, any tenderness for me on your part.”
― Carola Saavedra, Blue Flowers

“Isn't it funny. I'm enjoying my hatred so much more than I ever enjoyed love. Love is temperamental. Tiring. It makes demands. Love uses you, changes its mind. But hatred, now, that's something you can use. Sculpt. Wield. It's hard, or soft, however you need it. Love humiliates you, but Hatred cradles you.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander