Jas > Jas's Quotes

“You put your hand on Corinne's back like this again and I'm breaking your fingers.”
― Sylvia Day, Reflected in You

“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
― George Gordon Byron

“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.”
― Mary Renault, The Persian Boy

“are you breathing, are you lucky enough
to be breathing”
― Hettie Jones

“Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
― C.S. Lewis

“History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.”
― John W. Campbell Jr.

“Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.”
― Allan Gurganus

“The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.”
― Amy Bloom, Away

“We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important.”
― Eric Carle

“If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians