Jac Collo > Jac's Quotes

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“I don't know at what point you stop hurting and start healing”
― Val Kilmer, I'm Your Huckleberry: A Memoir

“Dream the big dreams and then do them.”
― Val Kilmer, I'm Your Huckleberry: A Memoir

“Angels were kissing me all over. I felt different. I felt present in a way I had never felt present before... I could always entertain family and friends, but these audience members were strangers I had touched, and having touched were strangers no longer.”
― Val Kilmer, I'm Your Huckleberry: A Memoir

“Actually those four words could be too many. You could cut them in half and say to act is to simply be. If Hamlet is the ultimate role and if 'To be or not to be' the ultimate question, then the ultimate answer is yes. Be.”
― Val Kilmer, I'm Your Huckleberry: A Memoir

“All we have as artists is our instincts, to begin with.”
― Val Kilmer, I'm Your Huckleberry: A Memoir

“Just keep going," she said. "You've left hell. You're in purgatory. Paradise is but a few miles away. Have faith, Dante.”
― Val Kilmer, I'm Your Huckleberry: A Memoir

“I am not sure which I prefer: To be taken for something I am not, or to fail at being what I am”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting

“I loved you by then, or would soon, or always had. It was inevitable, foretold: When I look up, I will see the sky; when I fight, I will win; when I meet Owen Mallory, I will love him.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting

“Who, loving a painting, would want the raw canvas beneath it?”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting

“No. The word home evoked only the sweet green smell of the woods, long gone, and sometimes another word: yew, I thought, or perhaps you.”
― alix e. harrow

“Because it was not God's voice I heard in my dream, boy,' you said, and I felt your breath on the fine hairs at the back of my neck. 'It was yours.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting

“Forgive me-- a coward so rarely feels safe.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting

“Forgive me-- a monster so rarely feels wanted.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting

“Who first called you that, I wonder? But give me a name, and I will bring you his tongue.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting

“Did I imagine crawling to your bier and lying down beside you among the flowers, so that a thousand years from now they would find our bones so intermingled it would be impossible to tell which were mine and which were yours....”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting

“I was eager, too-- how sweet it was to die, knowing someone wanted you to live.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting

“I wondered idly who had flinched from you before, and if you would prefer their thumbs or their ears in recompense.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting

“I was good at sex, as I was good at war; mine was a body born to be used.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting