Jessica Zafra > Quotes

“I'd rather be a bitch than a doormat.”
― Jessica Zafra

“You can not make someone love you. You can not be thin enough or white enough or famous enough. The choice is entirely the other person's. Then again, you might try hypnosis.”
― Jessica Zafra, Chicken Pox for the Soul

“We read because we are essentially alone.”
― Jessica Zafra, Twisted 8: The Night of the Living Twisted

“Sometimes I wonder if, instead of falling madly in love, we should aspire to fall sanely in love. But then, what would be the point?”
― Jessica Zafra, Twisted V

“Greasy food might not be good for your body, but it does wonders for the soul. A healthy diet may prolong your life, but what would you have to live for? What is the point of living to a hundred if you have to subsist on bland food? One may as well die of boredom.”
― Jessica Zafra, Chicken Pox for the Soul

“Marriage is a contract. Love is non-negotiable.”
― Jessica Zafra, Chicken Pox for the Soul

“People who read books in public places are regarded with suspicion because they appear self-sufficient. When you seem self-sufficient, other people think that you think you're better than them, and they get resentful.”
― Jessica Zafra, Chicken Pox for the Soul

“The question is not why fools fall in love. It is expected of them. When "smart" people fall in love - that's the problem.”
― Jessica Zafra, Chicken Pox for the Soul

“Whining is a form of manipulation. People will give anything to make you shut up.”
― Jessica Zafra, Chicken Pox for the Soul

“Beware of those who have never been bored, depressed, or angry. There is something seriously wrong with them.”
― Jessica Zafra, Chicken Pox for the Soul

“To live intensely is a basic human necessity.”
― Jessica Zafra, Twisted 8 ½

“What does not kill you will make you stronger and more cynical.”
― Jessica Zafra, Chicken Pox for the Soul

“We are all the same in that we all want to be different.”
― Jessica Zafra, Chicken Pox for the Soul

“We like to look for patterns and find connections in unrelated events. This way we can explain them to ourselves. Life seems neater, or at least less messy. We need to feel we are in control: it is integral to our self-esteem. We also know, though we deny it, that we are not in control. So we settle for the illusions of control. What if we stopped fooling ourselves?”
― Jessica Zafra, Twisted 8 ½

“The more "normal" the person seems, the sicker she probably is.”
― Jessica Zafra, Chicken Pox for the Soul

“In relationships it is best to assume nothing.”
― Jessica Zafra, Chicken Pox for the Soul

“That's the thing about a great book. Every time you read it, it's different, because you're different. You've changed since the last time you picked it up, things have happened to you.”
― Jessica Zafra, Twisted 9

“As you go through life, you learn many lessons. Unfortunately these lessons only apply to the specific instances in which you learned them. Therefore you can expect to make horrible mistakes no matter how long you live.”
― Jessica Zafra, Chicken Pox for the Soul

“We like to think that all people have hidden depths, but the fact is that a lot of people are shallow.

The vast majority don't have an opinion until they tune in to AM radio or read the papers. Then they become social critics.”
― Jessica Zafra, Chicken Pox for the Soul

“Life is a series of random collisions.”
― Jessica Zafra, Chicken Pox for the Soul

“Everyone declares that love is irrational, and yet everytime this statement is proven correct, they profess amazement. They seem to assume that love will make an exception in their case. It never does.”
― Jessica Zafra, Chicken Pox for the Soul

“One of the advantages of having an imaginary boyfriend is that he exists only for you, therefore he can not be stolen. The disadvantage is that you can not introduce him to your friends.”
― Jessica Zafra, Chicken Pox for the Soul

“Someday you will look back on all the awful stuff that's happening to you, and fondly smile. Doesn't say much about the future, does it?”
― Jessica Zafra, Chicken Pox for the Soul

“The reason men rule is because women let them.”
― Jessica Zafra, Chicken Pox for the Soul

“While being madly in love is fun, perhaps one should aspire to be sanely in love.”
― Jessica Zafra, Chicken Pox for the Soul

“Why should I bring happiness to those I loathe by obliterating myself, when I can make them miserable just by existing?”
― Jessica Zafra, Twisted

“There's nothing wrong with self-improvement, as long as you recognize that at some point you're going to have to accept yourself in all your imperfect glory. What's wrong with liking yourself the way you are?”
― Jessica Zafra, The 500 People You Meet in Hell

“We don't really have a movie industry; we have a trailer industry. The movie guys make five minutes worth of stuff to get people in the theatre, and eighty-five minutes of filler.”
― Jessica Zafra, Chicken Pox for the Soul

“I hear what many of you are saying: We don’t have the time, we are busy. Well Nobody Has Time, Everyone Is Busy. In the time it took you to read this post, your life just got a minute shorter. That is precisely why we read (and why some of us write): because life is short and finite, we want more, and literature is the distillation of all those lives we will not lead.”
― Jessica Zafra

“I love humanity. It’s people I don’t like.”
― Jessica Zafra