Jamie > Jamie's Quotes

“Talk to strangers
when the family fails and friends lead you astray
when Buddha laughs and Jesus weeps and it turns out God is gay.
'Cause angels and messiahs love can come in many forms:
in the hallways of your projects, or the fat girl in your dorm,
and when you finally take the time to see what they’re about
perhaps you find them lonely or their wisdom trips you out.”
― Saul Williams

“intelligence is intuitive
you needn't learn to love
unless you've been taught
to fear and hate”
― Saul Williams, , said the shotgun to the head.

“she stuck a bookmark in my heart and walked away”
― Saul Williams, She

“I'm hip to their game, hip to the science of war
Propoganda makes me fight but what am I fightin for?
My way of life? Beans and rice? Give and take, less or more?
See through the eyes of the poor, plus I'm black to the core
Ignorance is on tour bookin stadiums and more
The days of hitler painted pictures patriotic before
You raise your flag on a land snatched from bald eagles claw, and stamp the symbol on your currency to finance your war.

I'm sayin no.
Not in my name.
Not in my life.
Not by my hands.
That ain't my fight.
Not in my name.

You wage your war against terrorists and violence, and try to wave your guns and fear us all into silence.

NO.”
― Saul Williams

“some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“You could know the what of something forever and never discover the why.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance

“We all just want to be people, and none of us know what that really means.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Borne

“That's the problem with people who are not human. You can't tell how badly they're hurt, or how much they need your help, and until you ask, they don't always know how to tell you.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Borne

“I had long ago stopped believing in promises. Biological imperatives, yes. Environmental factors, yes. Promises, no.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“Sometimes, too, other people gave you their light, and could seem to flicker, to be hardly visible at all, if no one took care of them. Because they’d given you too much and had nothing left for themselves.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance

“The real reality is something we create every moment of every day, that realities spin off from our decisions in every second we've alive.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Borne

“I told him point-blank so there would be no mistake: This person he wanted to know better did not exist; I was who I seemed to be from the outside. That would never change.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“But, in the end, joy cannot fend off evil.
Joy can only remind you why you fight.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Dead Astronauts

“Some things you can be so close to that you never grasp their true nature.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance

“I really wanted to lose myself. People my entire life have told me I am too much in control, but that has never been the case. I have never truly been in control, have never wanted control.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“Some things came to you late, but late was better than never.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance

“Do you understand? Nothing thrives without being broken. Nothing exists without being dead first.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Dead Astronauts

“I doubt you will enjoy it. But that is the price of change. Someone always pays.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, The Strange Bird: A Borne Story

“Was he the woman with no clue where the ant was or the ant, unaware it was on the woman?”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Authority

“In unusual situations there can be a comfort in the presence of even someone you think might be your enemy.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.”
― Andrea Gibson

“The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems.
Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.”
― Andrea Gibson, The Madness Vase

“Our hearts beat so loud the neighbours think we’re fucking when I’m just trying to find the nerve to touch your face.”
― Andrea Gibson

“We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.”
― Andrea Gibson

“But when I thought I hit bottom, it started hitting back.”
― Andrea Gibson

“This is for the times you went through hell so someone else wouldn’t have to.”
― Andrea Gibson, When The Bough Breaks

“unconditional love asks nothing, not even that it be returned.”
― Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

“Past and future are the same, and we cannot change either, only know them more fully.”
― Ted Chiang, The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate

“In most cases we have to forget a little bit before we can forgive; when we no longer experience the pain as fresh, the insult is easier to forgive, which in turn makes it less memorable, and so on. It’s this psychological feedback loop that makes initially infuriating offenses seem pardonable in the mirror of hindsight.”
― Ted Chiang, The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling

“I know everything feels hopeless to you in this moment, but this is just a moment, and moments pass.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion