Jeff Zentner Quotes

“No one ever says on their deathbed they wish they’d loved fewer people.”
― Jeff Zentner, Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee

“It’s comforting to know that you don’t have to be excellent to not be completely forgotten.”
― Jeff Zentner, Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee

“I’m glad things end, though. It forces you to love them ferociously while you have them. There’s nothing worth having that doesn’t die.”
― Jeff Zentner, Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee

“I still have a last-day-of-sixth-grade feeling. All year you’re excited for school to end so you can move on to junior high, but then the day comes and you realize that something that was an important part of your life is dying. And endings are still so new that you don’t know quite how to feel. You find an excuse not to run out the door when the bell rings and school’s out. You talk to your teacher one last time. You use the restroom one last time. You take a circuitous route back to your classroom. On your way out, you look back and sigh, and you experience this deep wishfulness, and you wonder if life is just a series of endings. New beginnings don’t make endings any easier.”
― Jeff Zentner, Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee

“Most of all, I think it’s people who love to be reminded that sometimes you do your best and you come up short, but there’s still a place in the world for people like that.”
― Jeff Zentner, Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee

“They went to the column, where they stole a few more quiet minutes together, listening to the river wear its way deeper into the earth, the way people wear grooves into each other's hearts.”
― Jeff Zentner