Kimberley Jones’s Profile

“All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

“There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.”
― John Boyne

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

“In the end, dying isn’t the hard part. Everyone always treats death like it’s such a traumatic ordeal. But death is quiet and unless it happens instantaneously, it comes up to you like an old friend and wraps itself around you and just holds you there. It cradles you as you let your fear envelope you and burn through you. But you can only struggle against the inevitable for so long, and once you get over the panic and accept what’s happening to you, it’s actually almost kind of pleasant.

No…death isn’t hard.

Living, however…now that’s the real ass-kicker.”
― Kimberly Gourgon, The New Haven Project: Anomaly