Jacky > Jacky's Quotes

“She understands, too, the loneliness of parenting, which is the loneliness of memory—to know that she connects a future unknowable to her parents with a past unknowable to her child.”
― Chloe Benjamin, The Immortalists

“Most adults claim not to believe in magic, but Klara knows better. Why else would anyone play at permanence--fall in love, have children, buy a house--in the face of all evidence there's no such thing?”
― Chloe Benjamin, The Immortalists

“She’d tell herself that what she really wanted was not to live forever, but to stop worrying.”
― Chloe Benjamin, The Immortalists

“She knows that stories have the power to change things: the past and the future, even the present.”
― Chloe Benjamin, The Immortalists

“So you’ve been through tragedy. No one’s denying it. But that is not the life you’re living now. The aura is stale. The story, Daniel, is stale. You can’t let go of it, because if you did, you wouldn’t be a victim anymore. But there are millions of people still living in oppression. I come from them. And those people can’t live in the past. They can’t live in their heads. They don’t have the luxury.”
― Chloe Benjamin, The Immortalists

“How nice it would be to die swimming toward the sun. —Le Corbusier”
― Bonnie Tsui, Why We Swim

“Education is teaching children to find pleasure in the right things.”
― Mary Pipher, Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age