J.Z.N. > J.Z.N.'s Quotes

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

“When we open our minds too wide, we risk closing them.”
― Romina Russell, Zodiac

“A truth that no one knows is still the truth.”
― Sharon Shinn, Jenna Starborn

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
― C.S. Lewis

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living

“Life is like a Ferris wheel, going ‘round and ‘round in one direction. Some of us are lucky enough to remember each trip around.” From: Yesterday - A Novel of Reincarnation”
― Samyann, Yesterday

“Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

“What if I mess up?"

"Oh, you will. You'll mess up, you'll make mistakes, you'll break things. Some you'll be able to piece together, and others you'll lose. That's all a given. But there's only one thing you have to do for me."

"What's that?"

"Stay alive long enough to mess up again.”
― Victoria Schwab, The Archived

“Envy is when you want what someone else has. Jealousy’s when you also don’t want them to have it.”
― Kirsten Hubbard, Wanderlove

“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.”
― Sylvia Plath

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

“In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, everything collapses.”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

“Anyone can betray anyone.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Andre stood at my feet, looking like a fallen angel. A very pissed off fallen angel.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Unearthly

“There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

“if you ask me, the best way to go about flying is to cut the strings tying you down ”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Rose & the Dagger

“That it ought to be known I was born this way,
With indiscriminate tendencies.”
― Jill Alexander Essbaum