Janet > Janet's Quotes

“You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”
― Bill Watterson

“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
― Edward Abbey

“Things usually work out in the end."
"What if they don't?"
"That just means you haven't come to the end yet.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

“Don’t judge a home by its appearance, but by the warmth of its welcome.”
― Talia Carner, Hotel Moscow

“The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.”
― Chinua Achebe

“If you don't like someone's story, write your own.”
― Chinua Achebe

“I want to be the last girl in the world with a story like mine.”
― Nadia Murad, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

“Our faith is in our actions. We welcome strangers into our homes, give money and food to those who have none, and sit with the body of a loved one before burial. Even being a good student, or kind to your spouse, is an act equal to prayer. Things that keep us alive and allow poor people to help others, like simple bread, are holy.”
― Nadia Murad, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

“Let me state the proposition openly: The work of the FBI is being undermined by the current president. He and his partisan supporters have become corrosive to the organization.”
― Andrew G. McCabe, The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump

“If you want to kick the tiger in his ass you'd better have a plan for dealing with his teeth”
― Tom Clancy, The Teeth of the Tiger