Jessica McNamara > Jessica's Quotes

“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers

“You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers

“This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers

“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
― John Waters

“By 1996 Nora Ephron was telling a graduating class at Wellesley, “Don’t underestimate how much antagonism there is toward women and how many people wish we could turn the clock back.… Understand: every attack on Hillary Clinton for not knowing her place is an attack on you.”
― Rebecca Traister, Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“Being useful to others is not the same thing as being equal.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Obelisk Gate

“How can we prepare for the future if we won’t acknowledge the past?”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky

“So here is why I write what I do: We all have futures. We all have pasts. We all have stories. And we all, every single one of us, no matter who we are and no matter what’s been taken from us or what poison we’ve internalized or how hard we’ve had to work to expel it –

– we all get to dream.”
― N.K. Jemisin

“...and when I lift my head to scream out my fury, a million stars turn black and die. No one can see them, but they are my tears.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

“While Henri had a huge heart, he had quite a modest brain. His head was taken up almost entirely by his ears. In fact, his head seemed simply a sort of mount for those ears. Fortunately Henri didn’t really need his head. He kept all the important things in his heart.”
― Louise Penny, How the Light Gets In