Janet Quotes

“Do you mind not being so kind and obedient? It makes me nervous.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Volume 1

“Why are you still so damned protective of me?:
“You have to ask?”
“I do.”
Mick came closer still, until his face hung an inch from mine. “If you have to ask, then you wouldn’t believe my answer.” He drew away and continued wiping my hands.”
― Allyson James, Stormwalker

“This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“An elephant fell off a cliff, a copper cliff, which practically broke my heart. Elephants and gravity, not a great mix. But you know what? The other elephants immediately stopped and went down and found what was left of it and stood around it in a ring. I couldn't see what they did, but when they were done - it took a day - the one that fell was all back together and up and running again. They resurrected him, I've never seen anything like it. Elephants, they know some shit. I don't know why we rule them, they should rule us.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magician's Land

“Pierre Janet, a French professor of psychology who became prominent in the early twentieth century, attempted to fully chronicle late- Victorian hysteria in his landmark work The Major Symptoms of Hysteria. His catalogue of symptoms was staggering, and included somnambulism (not sleepwalking as we think of it today, but a sort of amnesiac condition in which the patient functioned in a trance state, or "second state," and later remembered nothing); trances or fits of sleep that could last for days, and in which the patient sometimes appeared to be dead; contractures or other disturbances in the motor functions of the limbs; paralysis of various parts of the body; unexplained loss of the use of a sense such as sight or hearing; loss of speech; and disruptions in eating that could entail eventual refusal of food altogether. Janet's profile was sufficiently descriptive of Mollie Fancher that he mentioned her by name as someone who "seems to have had all possible hysterical accidents and attacks." In the face of such strange and often intractable "attacks," many doctors who treated cases of hysteria in the 1800s developed an ill-concealed exasperation.”
― Michelle Stacey, The Fasting Girl: A True Victorian Medical Mystery

“I pulled the phone toward me and punched in the number of the sheriff's office in Flat Mesa. The deputy at the desk put me straight through. The phone made a couple of clicks, and then the sheriff's voice sounded in my ear.

"Jones," he said. Dark, biting, laconic.

"Hey, Nash. It's Janet."

There was a long silence.

"Fuck," Nash Jones said clearly, and he hung up on me.”
― Allyson James

“Am I your special someone? Or just someone special?"
--Janet”
― Justin Villanueva, Chaos Panzer

“Men come and go. The only thing a woman has that no one can take away is her opinion of herself.”
― Laura Drake, Nothing Sweeter

“Well, look, I was angry. I don't think I commit a lot of gratuitous violence, but this was war, and he was a jerk, and I made a mess of him. I threw him through a couple of doors, and he cried like a fucking baby. You know what they used to write on cannons? The last argument of kings. I guess you could say magic is the last argument of queens.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magician's Land

“add one
make dumb
add two
make poo”
― Janet Hutch

“Le sentiment du vide, qui correspond à l'absence complète de tout sentiment. C'est un sentiment surprenant, fréquent chez les épuisés et les neurasthéniques. On pourrait le définir le sentiment de la perte des sentiments, le sentiment qu'il n'y a pas de sentiment.”
― Pierre Janet