Jarod Kirby > Jarod's Quotes

“Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

“We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust.

That's all we ask of you. Make more than dust.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

“He has no idea how beautiful the ordinary becomes once it disappears.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Make art, make mistakes, and have no regrets.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind?”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“There is a defiance in being a dreamer”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Blink, and the years fall away like leaves.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Stories are a way to preserve one's self. To be remembered. And to forget.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Do not mistake this kindness. I simply want to be the one who breaks you.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Never pray to the gods that answer after dark.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Bind your fate to mine.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Lore

“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“The sea does not like to be restrained. ”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“But if God is the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, if He is three in one in the Trinity, then God knows nothing of loneliness. God knows nothing of standing with his back to a gray morning, of dropping to his knees in the dust.”
― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda

“Have you noticed how the most beautiful landscapes lose their brilliance as soon as our thoughts prevent us from seeing them properly?”
― Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

“No surprise. Idiots make it into every company. They tend to interview well.”
― Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

“That's the beauty of learning a new language. It should feel like an enormous undertaking. It ought to intimidate you. It makes you appreciate the complexity of the ones you know already.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“March is such a fickle month. It is the seam between winter and spring—though seam suggests an even hem, and March is more like a rough line of stitches sewn by an unsteady hand, swinging wildly between January gusts and June greens. You don’t know what you’ll find, until you step outside.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun,”
― Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

“Courage is the root of change—and change is what we’re chemically designed to do.”
― Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

“Nothing is all good or all bad,” she says. “Life is so much messier than that.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue