Jill > Jill's Quotes

“Infinite possibilities open to me at once. That's right, I'm no longer human. I've been set free from my broken body, that husk of flesh and bone that has been prepared all its existence to be used for the whims and pleasures of men.”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow

“He will not kill me. He does not get to make me a statistic.”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow

“Countless times, I watched my father turn my mother into a nervous wreck by simply transforming himself into a dark cloud of a presence. He wouldn't use any curses or shouts, but he'd set his bowl down a little too loudly, or slam doors a little too harshly. She'd step cautiously around him as if he were a bomb, worrying about her every move for fear of setting him off. Without uttering a single word, he'd teach her to twist herself into knots to prioritize his needs and wants, in some strangling hope of quelling the pressure in the house and returning things to normal.”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow

“these violent delights have violent ends. You have always known this.”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“Look at what we got ourselves into. Just because we invited a gringo to eat some bananas.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“She cared so much about her words, her creative expression, when what mattered to everyone else was the bottom line. Everything was a business--even art. She'd written the songs, but she wouldn't be able to truly own them. Not if she wanted the rest of the world to hear them.”
― Dolly Parton, Run, Rose, Run

“I'm back where I started, she marveled. But now everything's different.”
― Dolly Parton, Run, Rose, Run

“Besides, I might as well admit right now, I thought, that there are many things about people like Mary that I dislike. For one thing, they seldom know where their personalities end and yours begins; they usually think in terms of "we" while I have always tended to think in terms of "me"--and that has caused some friction, even with my own family.”
― Ralph Ellison, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man

“I am sure she thinks ... [that his rejection of royal company] is a sign of Oak being spoiled.
I think it's a sign he's been paying attention.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“How can I give another part of myself to someone else, when I already have so little to give?”
― Judy I. Lin, A Magic Steeped in Poison

“Writers are solitaries by vocation and necessity. I sometimes think the test is not so much talent, which is not as rare as people think, but purpose or vocation, which manifests in part as the ability to endure a lot of solitude and keep working. Before writers are writers they are readers, living books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the head of others, in that act that is so intimate and yet so alone.”
― Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby

“He would forget about it for weeks, sometimes months at a time, but he could never shake the thought that he was seeing only one world when there might be many, that there were lost places, maybe even lost people who might come to life for him if he just squinted hard enough or found the right magic words. Books, with their promises of enchanted doorways and secret places, only made it worse.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“And maybe he wanted her to be the kind of girl who dressed as Queen Mab, who loved words and had stars in her blood.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“The stairs seemed to go on forever, turning and turning until Darlington had no idea how long they'd been climbing. He wanted to look back to make sure that Alex was still there, but he'd read enough stories to know you never looked back on your way out of hell.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“For now, I just want things all safe and familiar. My life may not be perfect, but it is what I have known.”
― Ann M. Martin, A Corner of the Universe

“I wonder how you say goodbye to someone forever?”
― Ann M. Martin

“I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I'm trying to give a little of it back to others. It's one of the greatest pleasures I know.”
― Ann M. Martin

“Truth is, when you spend your whole life alone, it's incredibly appealing to move somewhere big enough to get lost in, where being alone looks like a choice.”
― Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

“Elizabeth, however, had never been blind to the impropriety of her father's behavior as a husband. She had always seen it with pain; but respecting his abilities, and grateful for his affectionate treatment of herself, she endeavoured to forget what she could not overlook, and to banish from her thoughts that continue breach of conjugal obligation and decorum, which, in exposing his wife to the contempt of her own children, was so highly reprehensible.”
― Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice

“Getting up once in the dark to go adventuring is a lark. Twice in two days smacks of masochism.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

“I was having trouble with the scale of things. A man killed with a musket was just as dead as one killed with a mortar. It was just that the mortar killed impersonally, destroying dozens of men, while a musket was fired by one man who could see the eyes of the one he killed. That made it murder, it seemed to me, not war. How many men to make a war? Enough, perhaps, so they didn't really have to see each other.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

“For the greatest crime of the poor in the eyes of the wealthy has always been to strike back. To fail to suffer in silence and instead disrupt their lives and their fantasies of a compassionate society that coincidentally set them on top. To say no.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi

“I've never experienced what it's like to fully esteem a man. To want to impress him. To want to please him.
[...]
On top of that, there was a deep and potent relief in letting go...in letting him take charge of the sexual experience. I didn't have to think or plan or maintain my rigid hold on the situation like I usually would. Instead, I could set my brain free. There was no governor on my thoughts or on my physical response. I was free to simply experience what was happening with no distractions.”
― Sophie Lark, Broken Vow