Jena > Jena's Quotes

“If you have come to these pages for laughter, may you find it.
If you are here to be offended, may your ire rise and your blood boil.
If you seek an adventure, may this song sing you away to blissful escape.
If you need to test or confirm your beliefs, may you reach comfortable conclusions.
All books reveal perfection, by what they are or what they are not.
May you find that which you seek, in these pages or outside them.
May you find perfection, and know it by name.”
― Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal

“No one knows why, but second only to eating the brains of the living, the dead love affordable prefab furniture.”
― Christopher Moore, The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me.”
― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

“If I start to sound a bit megalomaniacal, forgive me.” Her eyes shone. “You’re the greatest arcane vortex that has ever existed. I understand.” I winced. “Er, perhaps, but I’m really just a fellow who gets paid to translate what other people find. I ordinarily try to save my insane ranting for grant proposals.”
― Jordan L. Hawk, Balefire

“I’d never set out to have a cult of librarians who answered only to me and my sister, but it did come in handy whenever I needed to do research.”
― Jordan L. Hawk, Balefire

“Of course I love you. You are my other self.”
― Jordan L. Hawk, Destroyer of Worlds

“It knew him. And it loved him, without reservation or condition. He didn't have to do anything to earn its affection, or even to keep it. It loved him, always had, always would, and such was simply the way of things.”
― Jordan L. Hawk, Destroyer of Worlds