Jenn Pineo > Jenn's Quotes

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
― Mark Twain

“All it takes is 20 seconds of insane courage and great things will happen.”
― Benjamin Mee, We Bought a Zoo

“You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves. I mean, I could hate you for being massively unpunctual and for never being interested in anything other than Margo Roth Spiegelman, and for, like, never asking me about how it's going with my girlfriend - but I don't give a shit, man, because you're you. My parents have a shit ton of black Santas, but that's okay. They're them. I'm too obsessed with a reference website to answer my phone sometimes when my friends call, or my girlfriend. That's okay, too. That's me. You like me anyway. And I like you. You're funny, and you're smart, and you may show up late, but you always show up eventually.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Throwing yourself into worthwhile, fruitful hard work that you believe in, as much as you can handle and more, is a kind of luxury not everyone gets to experience.”
― Benjamin Mee

“Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
― Coco Chanel

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
― Heraclitus

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King

“When all else fails, give up and go to the library.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.”
― Stephen King

“The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?”
― Robert Jordan