Jenny Lee > Jenny's Quotes

“I’ve had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can’t quite make out what it is. It takes time.”
― Charles Bukowski

“My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression.”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

“Monsters don't dress like monsters; they dress like humans. Even stranger, they rarely know they're the monsters.”
― Dennis Lehane, Since We Fell

“Where there's life there's hope.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“I can think of no better way to meet a girl than to see her through the eyes of the story she loves best.”
― Beth Revis, A World Without You

“Alone in the gloom, surrounded by books, it was hard not to feel overwhelmed.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
and I eat men like air.”
― Sylvia Plath, Ariel: The Restored Edition

“There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.”
― Sylvia Plath

“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I am terrified by this dark thing
That sleeps in me;
All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.”
― Sylvia Plath, Ariel

“Magic
Sandra’s seen a leprechaun,
Eddie touched a troll,
Laurie danced with witches once,
Charlie found some goblins gold.
Donald heard a mermaid sing,
Susy spied an elf,
But all the magic I have known
I've had to make myself.”
― Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends

“Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.”
― Franz Kafka

“I felt wise and cynical as all hell.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“what is stronger than the human heart which shatters over and over and still lives”
― Rupi Kaur