Jay > Jay's Quotes

“I love you,' he whispered again, wonderingly, as he understood at last how a lifetime together with someone that you loved could seem like an eternity, and yet not be long enough.”
― Joan D. Vinge, The Summer Queen

“Real power is control. Knowing that you can do anything...and not doing it only because you can.”
― Joan D. Vinge, The Snow Queen

“I am only a cup that knowledge holds. It does not to knowledge matter how poor the cup is. It is the wisdom of those who drink of me that me wise makes. Fools make a sibyl foolish, wherever she is.”
― Joan D. Vinge, The Snow Queen

“It doesn't matter. I'm not asking forever of you...just let me love you now.”
― Joan D. Vinge, The Snow Queen

“My gods or your gods, who know which are stronger?' That's why we honor them all - just in case. There are more cultures even than Gods in the Eight Worlds, and among them you'll find people who are willing to kill you, or each other, over any difference in belief or lifestyle or physical appearance you can imagine - and some you can't. They all think they're right. There's no Truth, Tammis, only differences of opinion.”
― Joan D. Vinge, The Summer Queen

“Life scars us with its random motion, he thought. Only death is perfect.”
― Joan D. Vinge, The Summer Queen

“There are two tragedies in life. One is never getting your heart's desire. The other is getting it.”
― Joan D. Vinge, The Summer Queen

“He is afraid, as suddenly he knows that he was afraid all along, that if he felt her body so close to him he would never let her go.”
― Joan D. Vinge, The Summer Queen

“Everything changes, today's tears are tomorrow's absurdities, after all.”
― Joan D. Vinge, The Summer Queen

“Go then, there are other worlds than these.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“Sometimes...you can cry until there's nothing wet in you. You can scream and curse to where your throat rebels and ruptures. You can pray, all you want, to whatever god you think will listen. And, still it makes no difference. It goes on, with no sign as to when it might release you. And you know that if it ever did relent...it would not be because it cared.”
― Jhonen Vasquez, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: Director's Cut

“But at supper that evening after I asked him to pass the damn ham, please, Uncle Jack pointed at me. 'See me afterwards young lady,' he said.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“If you're ever in a big hotel lobby, and they start to play "The Blue Danube Waltz," get the hell out. Don't think. Run.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Asfixia

“Because nothing is as good as you can imagine it. No one is as beautiful as she is in your head. Nothing is as exciting as your fantasy.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Asfixia

“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

“And so it goes...”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“They said it was death to kill a sibyl, death to love a sibyl, death to be a sibyl … and they meant a living death.”
― Joan D. Vinge, The Snow Queen

“Why is memory this way? Why isn’t it content to hurt you once? Why must it remind you of all the times you’ve been hurt before?”
― Bethany C. Morrow, MEM

“A wanderer in darkness, she followed an eccentric orbit, each new disturbance angling her closer to some long-awaited rendezvous. She could only hope that when the moment came, she’d be wise enough to know it, and brave enough to act.”
― Matt Ruff, Lovecraft Country

“Sure, the story kicks off with the deaths of thousands of people, but god forbid there be cussing in it, right?”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“That’s so not your business it almost punches clean past the event horizon of Not Your Business and becomes Your Business again.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“THEY ARE BEYOND ME. THESE HUMANS. WITH THEIR BRIEF LIVES AND THEIR TINY DREAMS AND THEIR HOPES THAT SEEM FRAGILE AS GLASS. UNTIL YOU SEE THEM BY STARLIGHT, THAT IS.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“AND I CATCH HER IN A SMILE. SUCH A SIMPLE THING. A TINY, BEAUTIFUL THING.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“THE UNIVERSE OWES YOU NOTHING, KADY. IT HAS ALREADY GIVEN YOU EVERYTHING, AFTER ALL. IT WAS HERE LONG BEFORE YOU, AND IT WILL GO ON LONG AFTER YOU. THE ONLY WAY IT WILL REMEMBER YOU IS IF YOU DO SOMETHING WORTHY OF REMEMBRANCE.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“He’d be hot if she didn’t hate his fucking guts.”
― Jay Ishino, Blood Like Water

“I’m sorry,” Christina said in a real “fuck you” sort of way.”
― Jay Ishino, Blood Like Water

“Gertie eyed Sonya’s sword. She steadied herself, trying not to get all hot and bothered watching Sonya prepare to wield the thing.”
― Jay Ishino, Blood Like Water