Jennifer Bene > Jennifer's Quotes

“What can we do with our stories,' he said, 'but tell them?”
― Sena Jeter Naslund, Four Spirits

“We owe it to each other to tell stories.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.”
― Louis Aragon, Paris Peasant

“The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.”
― Jack London, White Fang

“We're all stories, in the end.”
― Steven Moffat

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
― Robert Frost

“The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.”
― Willa Cather

“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.”
― Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli

“To survive, you must tell stories.”
― Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before

“Apologies get you nowhere, action takes you everywhere. Fear drags you down, but bravery will launch you forward.”
― Jennifer Bene, Taken by the Enemy

“No. Love is pretty clear when it’s real.”
― Jennifer Bene, Taken by the Enemy

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.”
― Anne Frank

“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
― Mary Oliver

“Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet