J.R. > J.R.'s Quotes

“He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“There's power in the night. There's terror in the darkness. Despite all our accumulated history, learning, and experience, we remember. We remember times when we were too small to reach the light switch on the wall, and when darkness itself was enough to make us cry out in fear....”
― Jim Butcher, Turn Coat

“Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Many have tried to kill us. All have failed.
-Valek”
― Maria V. Snyder, Magic Study

“Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.”
― Jim Butcher, Changes

“There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.”
― Michael Connelly, The Brass Verdict

“The night is dark and full of terrors.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire

“there is a light that never goes out”
― Michael Connelly

“I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.”
― Michael Connelly

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“I want someone whose heart is big enough to hold me.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Attachments

“Valek's thoughts returned to Yelena. An icy finger of loneliness touched the emptiness inside him. She was in Sitia, where she needed to be to learn about her magical powers, but she had taken his heart with her.”
― Maria V Snyder

“When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family. ”
― Jim Butcher

“Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.”
― Jim Butcher, Storm Front

“Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“In the name of the Pizza Lord. Charge!”
― Jim Butcher, Summer Knight

“You have no idea of the things you do to me. That night, after Fez, I would have happily given you every bit of myself.”

I link my fingers between the buttons on his shirt.

He leans back in. “Then why didn’t you?”

“Because I don’t want you to be the other guy.”
― Anna Bloom, The Art of Letting Go

“Besides,” he says with a twinkle of blues. ” When I do have sex with you, I’d rather you were a little more sober.”
― Anna Bloom, The Art of Letting Go

“I have written some very strict University rules that I plan to stick to:

1. No Alcohol

2. No cigarettes

3. No Boys

4. No Going Home”
― Anna Bloom, The Art of Letting Go

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I'm in love with you," he said quietly.

"Augustus," I said.

"I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“EASTER HAS BEEN CANCELED—THEY FOUND THE BODY”
― Jim Butcher, Storm Front

“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“He wound the scarf around his fingers until her hand was hanging in the space between them.

Then he slid the silk and his fingers into her open palm.

And Eleanor disintegrated.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar