Crystal Evans Books Quotes

“When you are a success, your old friends will boast of your accomplishments and your new friends will celebrate your achievements. Your old friends will say " i knew you when you were.." Don't worry about them, their story ends there.”
― Crystal Evans

“One of these days when you are spreading your web of lies and deceit. Your tongue shall turn to ashes in your mouth and after the falling out of your teeth.”
― Crystal Evans, The Bunna Man II: Extended Edition

“Life is a sum of our choices.
You do something and i react, you do it long enough, my reaction changes.
Education, childhood memories, disappointments, some of us are helpless to our experiences.
One single moment in your life could mean the very difference between me and you.
Selah”
― Crystal Evans, The Bunna Man: Joe Grind Series

“You are so fixated on the now, but what if you could see the future, if you could tell what lies ahead, i guarantee your reaction would be different, in the now. You see this place, where we were born will never be remembered as your birthplace, only mine. Thousand years, it is me, i will be remembered as a child of this district.”
― Crystal Evans, Jamaican Acute-Ghetto-itis: Jamaican Sociological Commentary

“One of my perceived weaknesses is that I am not a confrontational person. I am not bellicose and belligerent. I am not quarrelsome and warlike and people who are like this, loud and vulgar and toxic think they are strong and people like me are weak. Go around spewing venom and vitriol. Bullies think calm people are weak.

But they don’t know where my strength lies.
Everything that I am is born out of this quiet, humble and pacific nature.

Bullies only set themselves up as targets.
Bullies don’t do self work.
Bullies aren’t introspective.
Bullies are too busy trying to cower others down and point fingers.
Bullies don’t make peace, they don’t want peace, peace confuses them.
Bullies can’t walk alone.
Bullies thrive in groups.
They need cheerleaders.

I am almost always alone…”
― Crystal Evans, The Country Gyal Journal

“A lot of times we struggle in life to find happiness, to find a spouse, to get respect, ratings because the way we see ourselves that’s not how people see us.
It is not who we are.
What we imagine ourselves to be.
We are not it.

We have to constantly do self work…

Becoming and evolving…
Because we are not our best selves…
It doesn’t matter what we tell ourselves, the world will reflect the truth back at us… sometimes the world lies… but not all the time.”
― Crystal Evans

“The burden is not my experiences it is my intellect. The way my brain works. My experiences are very similar to most if not all of us born into unfavorable circumstances. We survive and excel. It’s my purview that makes me think something is wrong wid it: for most people. That’s just life.”
― Crystal Evans, Jamaican Acute-Ghetto-itis: Jamaican Sociological Commentary

“For future reference…
Treat me as a story teller /business woman and celebrate me as such.
But never as a person that you know very well…
Not just me.
Others too.”
― Crystal Evans, The Fairy Tale Complex II

“Writing is my response to my own crazy world. It's often sporadic, ignited by some noteworthy occurrence in my life. Rarely is it reflective, frequently intrusive. You see sometimes I aim for allegory, but there are certain truths about life that one has to paint as it is, there are ideas that cannot be dressed up.
I more than anyone else understands how suffering and personal experiences influences the creative process. My books are nurtured by happiness and despair. Every experience in my everyday life comes with it owns dripping of medicine and or toxins, lessons that only my interactions with others can effectively teach.

My life is entirely influenced by human behavior and my books are about my culture and human nature. My degree is from HardKnock Life University. Who I am is a reflection of the people who shaped my life. I am their reflection. I am novelist. The only doctorate i have is on life. The reality of life is the only thing I know.I’m”
― Crystal Evans, Jamaican Acute-Ghetto-itis: Jamaican Sociological Commentary

“The issue I have with people who say they love me…
Is that I don’t feel loved by them.

Their love often seems more like opportunism to me or masked usery.
Am not saying this man don’t love me or rate me.

I don’t feel that love.
I don’t feel loved by him…

I am not saying a family member don’t love me or isn’t a good person or hasn’t been good to me…
I am just saying that this person they project or profess to be…
Is someone I have never experienced…

Yes you are this great person to other people…
The thing is…
I don’t know that person.
I’ve never experienced that person and those I reserve the right to feel the way I feel about you as a person and this experience…

It also can’t be love if standing up for myself makes you hate me.
Love would have led to empathy and not feelings of umbrage.

“You know I love you”
You can say I love you.
But I don’t feel loved by you…
Your love means nothing to me if I don’t feel or experience it.


Selah.”
― Crystal Evans

“While I wait to heal, I often find solace in solitude. I don't fully understand why, but I know I must be alone. I withdraw from the world, and in that quiet space, I focus solely on my recovery. This solitude forces me to confront my raw emotions, with no distractions to dull their intensity. It is within these moments of despair that my most brilliant ideas emerge.

I allow myself to feel deeply, to the point where I can no longer feel. To overcome heartache, it's essential to exhaust every emotion—cry until the tears run dry, feel until you're tired of feeling, talk about the person until even your own voice bores you. When you are drained, empty, and devoid of emotion, you are almost across the bridge to healing. It is only then that true detachment begins.

Each time my heart has been broken, I've learned how to heal myself. Heartbreak no longer holds power over me. I've realized that the only way to get over it is to go through it. The longer I deny my feelings to protect myself, the more pain I endure. But if I accept the situation and fully experience my emotions, the pain fades more quickly. At most, they may occupy my thoughts for a few days; if I loved them deeply, maybe two or three weeks.

I simply withdraw from society and return when I am better, when I am healed. During my healing process, I commit to self-improvement. I channel my energy into refining the parts of myself that led to unnecessary pain. I acknowledge my mistakes, see where I went wrong, and take responsibility for my role in my suffering. And as long as he makes no effort, I am gone. The quickest way for any man to lose me is to stop trying and to make his intentions clear.

While he may think I am suffering, I am actually healing. I am recalibrating, renewing, and rehabilitating. I am resurrecting, realigning, adjusting, refocusing, and resetting. I am fine-tuning.

In the midst of this, I give him nothing—no attention, no thoughts, no feelings. Exes thrive on your negative emotions, so silence must be so profound that it echoes. No attention, no access. They may resort to stalking through fake profiles, but let them exert the effort. Block all other avenues of communication.

I am reshaping, reorienting, tweaking, reassessing, reconfiguring, restructuring.

In my absence, I am transforming.

Ducked.

I am for all ill purposes and intentions, my most productive and fruitful self when I am hurt or alone.
This leads my naysayers, detractors and enemies to learn that for the most part, excluding death, I am by most standards, indestructible.

I will build empires with the stones one throws at me.
I will create fertilizers with the trash and feaces hurled at me.
I will rise like pheonix from the ashes.

I am antifragile, I can withstand trials, tribulations, chaos and uncertainty and grow in the face of adversity.
I am the epitome of the resilience paradox, trial bloom, adversity alchemy, refiners fire and the pheonix effect.

I am fortitude - me.

Ducked.

What’s even more magical, is what comes out on the other side of this process.
It’s a peace, you do not want anyone to destroy.
A clarity, you won’t risk blurring.
A renewed you, a different version of you, stronger, fierce, centered and certain.
A rebirth, refinement.
You never saw it coming.
Neither will they.

Copyright ©️ 2024
Crystal Evans”
― Crystal Evans, 100 Dating Tips for Jamaican Women

“With regards to social media…
At some point this becomes a conversation i am having with myself, isolated yet frustrated but accepting that i will never be able to connect with most people on anything but on a superficial level.
Thats my only closure.”
― Crystal Evans, 100 Dating Tips for Jamaican Women

“I know what it feels like to unravel. I know how an unhinged state can feel like normal. . I sympathized with suicidal people because I know how the darkness can be… and depression feeds on you like bacteria… some days it’s active and other days it lays dormant in the permafrost of routine and life’s demands. I imagine the pain I feel on my worst days and then think about how painful it must have been for those who decided to end it all.”
― Crystal Evans, The Bunna Man II: Extended Edition

“Me to corporate when I apply for traditional roles:
Corporate Jamaican people: You write books?
Me: Yeah. I write emails, proposals, white papers, codes, RFPs, RFQ,RFI… I study human behavior, psychology etc. I discuss, I persuade, i insist, argue, negotiate, proselytize and with 200,000 followers. I influence …Best corporate executive cannot be a writer, but the best writers can be anything.

Have you seen the thickness of one of my novels?
Then you understand how committed I am to any process with no surety that it will work out in my favour.
The ability to do boring, tedious, repetitive tasks without supervision or direction for long periods of time with no immediate reward…

Works likes charm every time.”
― Crystal Evans, Legal Choppings : 100 Business Ideas for Jamaicans

“No contact is not for the other person. It’s for you. It’s a form of discipline, character development and test of resilience… ♥️♥️♥️ I’ve done it more than times than i would want to… each time me come out emotionally stronger. It’s crazy… it’s liberating actually ”
― Crystal Evans, The Bunna Man Trilogy

“Nah. I think we have ran our course.
Yeah. Am not feeling this anymore.
I don’t have these type of relationships with people. Not even my friends.
All my relationships are holistic.
I don’t keep people in my circle weh can’t even wish me happy birthday or congratulate me on anything.
It’s demeaning, it’s devaluing, its unfeeling and cruel it’s has to be deliberate. Because I’ve never heard anything good from you to me.
I don’t live like that with people and I am forced to live like that with you in order to retain my dignity. I don’t like it. I don’t like not being myself just so I can keep score with you.
I don’t want to pretend indifference after either.

In the past I held on to a cobweb.
Now am holding on to nothing.
The other men are a foil for you.
They just show me that I really settled for nothing with you and got less than nothing.
I am frankly embarrassed and ashamed of myself for choosing you.
I don’t wan’t to feel like that anymore.
I have never liked the way I feel when I am with you.

I’ve met better men, richer men. more handsome men that don’t treat me this way.
I’ve lost all my feelings for you.
There is nothing left.
Nothing.”
― Crystal Evans, The Bunna Man II: Extended Edition