quotes by Peter Jenkins

"Talk is cheap and easy; making dreams real takes hard, humble work. Dreams in the Midwest are acceptable, just keep them to yourself. Maybe tell your family, but don't just talk—do something about it."
— Peter Jenkins (Looking for Alaska)

"College students, couples, people covered with eagle tattoos, boat captains, white-haired folks—we were all singing, waiting especially for the chorus"
— Peter Jenkins

"It was as if we'd only been gone the weekend. Or had we been gone a lifetime. Part of that was because when you've lived in Alaska, living in other places seems easier, less challenging, less threatening. Alaska had enlarged each of us. No one is ever the same after coming back from Alaska."
— Peter Jenkins (Looking For Alaska)

"Ol' bart rarely saw a visitor and had never been more than a hundred miles from home. And he'd only been that far once or twice."
— Peter Jenkins

"Ol' Bart rarely saw a visitor and had never been more than a hundred miles from home. And he'd only been that far once or twice."
— Peter Jenkins

"All during the meal, I kept telling Annie I had eaten in many of the best restaurants in New York, Washington and Boston and never, ever, had I eaten food as good, and pure, and right-out-of-the-earth as hers. Besides, their generosity, humble life-style and loving company brought to this meal a special joy. It was as if the very spirit of their God, whom they honored and held so dear, was transmitted to their food."
— Peter Jenkins

"... she was used to supporting the whole family by herself. She worked the 3-11 pm shift at the yarn mill for 2.80 an hour, and to make extra she did domestic work in wealthy white folks' homes during the day. Although my meager check didn't go far, I bought a lot of nutritious food during my stay there... I put the sweet milk and buttermilk on the littered table. The three boys were at the milk as if they had never seen milk before. There was nothing in the white refrigerator except a plastic container of cherry sugar-packed Kool-Aid and half a loaf of white bread."
— Peter Jenkins