Jay DeMoir > Jay's Quotes

“I am not lucky. You know what I am? I am smart, I am talented, I take advantage of the opportunities that come my way and I work really, really hard. Don’t call me lucky. Call me a badass.”
― Shonda Rhimes, Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“Trying to hang on to what's gone just causes pain. It's better to focus on what we have.”
― Virginia Zimmerman

“Love is too strong, too intense, for what I feel. For what I am allowed to feel.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“I would've loved you if we had more time.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

“When people ask me how I got into activism, I often say, “The first person you are ever an activist for is yourself.” If I wasn’t gonna fight for me, who else was?”
― George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue