Reed Jones > Reed's Quotes

“Retribution of the same kind promises that he was not wrong but rather that he was small.”
― Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

“What good is a half-lit life? You can burn me to ashes as long as I know we lived a life alight.”
― Tyler Knott Gregson, Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series

“Which is what we all want from art isn't it? When someone pins down something that feels like it lives inside us? Takes a piece of your heart and shows it to you?”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“It's not thinking about the future because you want each hour to last forever.”
― Anita Abriel, Lana's War

“If you keep looking back you’re going to trip going forward.”
― Gucci Mane, The Autobiography of Gucci Mane

“Baby, its true. Pessimists are right more often, but optimists win more often. In this life, you have to decide what’s more important to you. As for me, I’ll take winning.”
― Ben Jealous, Never Forget Our People Were Always Free: A Parable of American Healing

“You know who bases their entire lives on their emotions? Three-year-old kids. And dogs. You know what else three-year-olds and dogs do? Shit on the carpet.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“I think the wild is a bit like life — frightening sometimes but beautiful.”
― Charlie Mackesy, The Boy the Mole the Fox and the Horse The Animated Story & The Boy the Mole the Fox and the Horse By Charlie Mackesy Collection 2 Books Set

“Sometimes just getting up and carrying on is brave and magnificent.”
― Charlie Mackesy, The Boy the Mole the Fox and the Horse The Animated Story & The Boy the Mole the Fox and the Horse By Charlie Mackesy Collection 2 Books Set

“The point is that you learn how to make your work by making your work, and a great many of the pieces you make along the way will never stand out as finished art. The best you can do is make arty care about — and lots of it!”
― David Bayles & Ted Orland Bill Jay, Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils(and Rewards)of Artmaking

“We can busy ourselves with living or with dying, Ove.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“There will be grief before the morning of our freedom, but has the morning ever failed to come?”
― Cid Ricketts Sumner, But the Morning Will Come

“Romantic love has been diluted into paperback form and has sold thousands and millions of copies. Somewhere it is still in the original, written on tablets of stone.”
― Jeanette Winterson; Sachiko Kishimoto

“We do not dislike everything that shines, but we do prefer a pensive luster to a shallow brilliance.”
― Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows

“He wouldn't ever be safe, even if he complied, he could still be harmed in some way; call it an accident, call it"what did he do to deserve it?" call it he should've stopped sooner and faster and laid flatter on the ground, call it Rasheed's legacy, call it a few "bad apples," God-fucking-damn it, the inconvenience of somehow getting the bad one every fucking time, the inconvenience of losing your life, the lack of luxury to test each apple for the gun-toting worm.”
― Phillip B. Williams, Ours: A Novel

“The dunes are changed with the wind, but the desert never changes. That’s the way it will be with our love for each other.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“But the happiness—it hardened the heart because we thought we deserved its idleness.”
― J.D. McClatchy, Hazmat

“Call me a socialist or any blame thing you want to, as long as you grab hold of the other end of the cross-cut saw with me and help me slash the big logs of Poverty and Intolerance to pieces.”
― Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

“What can we do with such fast exploding fascism?”
― Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

“It seemed worse than futile, it seemed insane, to risk martyrdom in a world where Fascists persecuted Communists, Communists persecuted Social-Democrats, Social-Democrats persecuted everybody who would stand for it; where "Aryans" who looked like Jews persecuted Jews who looked like Aryans and Jews persecuted their debtors; where every statesman and clergyman praised peace and brightly asserted that the only way to get Peace was to get ready for War.”
― Sinclair Lewis

“What conceivable reason could one have for seeking after righteousness in a world which so hated righteousness? Why do anything except eat and read and make love and provide for sleep that should be secure against disturbance by armed policemen? He never did find any particularly good reason.”
― Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

“A Doremus Jessup can never die.”
― Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here