Jaycee Ford > Jaycee's Quotes

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“You should date a girl who reads.
Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.

Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she has found the book she wants. You see that weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow and worn.

She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.

Buy her another cup of coffee.

Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.

It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas, for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry and in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.

She has to give it a shot somehow.

Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.

Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who read understand that all things must come to end, but that you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.

Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.

If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.

You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.

You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.

Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.

Or better yet, date a girl who writes.”
― Rosemarie Urquico

“I have worked too damn hard encasing that beating life force into a steel box.”
― A. Rosa, Emotionally Compromised

“I can't tell if wanting you is selfish or stupid.”
― A. Rosa, Emotionally Compromised

“It's an obvious challenge, but the risk feels too big, the leap too grand, the future too unknown”
― A. Rosa, Emotionally Compromised

“He grabs my face, watching my watering eyes. "No, no, I knew you wouldn't let me go without a fight. It was just going to take some time. I'd do the same for you. In a way, I hope that someday maybe I can save your life."

I laugh, trying my damnedest not to kiss him. It's simple, isn't it? "Jeremy, you already have.”
― A. Rosa, Emotionally Compromised

“I can't believe I wrote that many words in a row.”
― A. Rosa

“No. One. Comes. Before You.”
― Abbi Glines, Never Too Far

“Everyone wants to protect their heart, but without pain, one can never have joy.”
― Jaycee Ford

“All I know is that you are the only person that has ever made me feel this way. Break my heart and mend it at the same time, make my breathing feel inadequate. You, Clara, make me want more.”
― Len Webster, Thirty-Eight Days

“Every storm has a beginning, every storm has a perfect moment of bliss and every storm has a destructive end.”
― Len Webster, Thirty-Eight Days

“I'm always sketchy of people who don't like grits.”
― Jaycee Ford

“You’re making my heart do things it’s never done before.” ”
― Jaycee Ford, Watching Fireflies

“There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

“You can't cover up the swagger of a cowboy.”
― Jaycee Ford, Dragonfly Awakening

“Never be someone's filler chapter.”
― Jaycee Ford

“Were men and women ever really just friends?”
― Jaycee Ford, Dragonfly Awakening

“Patience is a conquering virtue.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer

“I think I deserve something beautiful.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love