Jennifer DeLucy > Jennifer's Quotes

“Sod off, you hopeless prude.”
― Jennifer DeLucy, Seers of Light

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Do you intend to get any closer or is arm's length the new black?”
― Jennifer DeLucy, Seers of Light

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“From the beginning, the only thing I couldn’t tolerate about you was how impossible you were to ignore.”
― Jennifer DeLucy, Seers of Light

“Taking a step forward, I stood in the light, tilted my head back and closed my eyes. It held my face and wrapped its arms around my shoulders, and for the very first time, I let hope in. (Lillian Hunt)”
― Jennifer DeLucy, Seers of Light

“If you’re waiting for my good looks to fade... it’s a futile waste of time. Give up at once. - (Christian Wright)”
― Jennifer DeLucy, Seers of Light

“No matter the deviation, all things come full circle. You begin and end your journey in the same place, but with a different set of eyes. - Abram”
― Jennifer DeLucy, Seers of Light

“You don’t ever expect to fall in love with words. No one can anticipate such a thing. But should it happen, God help you, because it will seem that no existent man is enough; none can equal what you have perfected in your mind.”
― Jennifer DeLucy, A Valentine Anthology

“There seemed to be a purpose in everything—a winding, swaying, knotted, jumbled road that led back to the same door as many times as you needed it to. Until you remembered... (Lily, from Seers of Light)”
― Jennifer DeLucy, Seers of Light

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong! He made me love him without looking at me.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“It's so easy to laugh. It's so easy to hate. It takes strength to be gentle and kind.
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― Stephen Morrissey

“The glass doors stared back at me like a secret passageway, moonlight filtering in and adding to the effect. I swallowed again, my heart pounding. What an exhilarating emotion this was. Exhilarating and terrifying. Nothing had ever made me feel so overwhelmed, so ethereal. Of all the new mysteries in my life, this was the most wrenching. Everything would change now, I knew. (Lily from Seers of Light)”
― Jennifer DeLucy, Seers of Light

“Quit stalling with the good bits!”
― Jennifer DeLucy, Seers of Light

“Kiss me goodbye now. And make it impressive. I have issues with my short term memory. - Lily, Seers of Light”
― Jennifer DeLucy, Seers of Light

“Holding on for dear life, I was overcome with the perfect nearness of him, the ache of human solitude nearly conquered.”
― Jennifer DeLucy, Seers of Light

“Are you dead?”
― Jennifer DeLucy, Seers of Light

“Your attempt at GQ has, tragically, ended in douche-bag. - Anna, Seers of Light”
― Jennifer DeLucy, Seers of Light

“Some things are better left in the shadows. - Christian, Seers of Light”
― Jennifer DeLucy, Seers of Light

“You have to know by now,' I whispered. 'I trust you more than anyone.' - Lily, Seers of Light”
― Jennifer DeLucy

“Lily, look and see Narcissus’s true reflection . . . - Abram, Seers of Light”
― Jennifer DeLucy, Seers of Light

“You can throw me across the forest but you can't open a lid? - William, Seers of Light”
― Jennifer DeLucy, Seers of Light

“He smirked and that was it. I propelled myself forward and into his arms, our mouths instantly locking in a frenzied kiss, my hands grasping his collar, his shirt, his hair, his anything.”
― Jennifer DeLucy, Seers of Light

“Itchy does not equal sexy.”
― Jennifer DeLucy, Seers of Light

“Back to the house.'
The house?'
Yes. You know...the oversized box in which we live?”
― Jennifer DeLucy, Seers of Light

“Well, there are also prescribed methods for entering a room. Must you always be stealthy like the ninja?'
Like the ninja,' he repeated, smirking. “I’m that good, huh?’
Come to think of it, you never announce yourself. Just, poof, and "Oh, look, William’s here."'- Lily and William, Seers of Light”
― Jennifer DeLucy, Seers of Light

“ Did I really want predictability? Did I want a never-ending routine that, while always resulting in pleasure, never altered, never faltered? Was he even capable of failing? And with that question, had I truly believed that the possibility of failure was a bad thing? Wasn’t risk the very marrow of life? Never knowing what you were going to get…or how? Never knowing whether it was going to change your entire existence or leave you dejected? ”
― Jennifer DeLucy, A Valentine Anthology

“I think Saturday may be Latin for "stay in pajamas til noon then eventually motivate yourself to shower and get ready for bed that night.”
― Bart Millard