Jepp, Who Defied the Stars Quotes

“There is no mile as long the final one that leads back home.”
― Katherine Marsh, Jepp, Who Defied the Stars

“You can not be the judge of another's wishes. If you love someone, you must believe that they know what is best for themselves.”
― Katherine Marsh, Jepp, Who Defied the Stars

“I had never been the receptacle of someone's hope, and found this weightless thing to be a heavy burden.”
― Katherine Marsh, Jepp, Who Defied the Stars

“We are nothing if not our hopes and dreams”
― Katherine Marsh, Jepp, Who Defied the Stars

“I was told that there was nothing for me but to come here. But, as with life itself, it may not be our choice to come, but it is our choice to leave.”
― Katherine Marsh, Jepp, Who Defied the Stars

“I gently touch the stars, wondering if they hold my fate or whether holding them, as I do now, allows me to create my own.”
― Katherine Marsh, Jepp, Who Defied the Stars

“There are some men, Jepp, whose lives are like this-- a single volume. Their story is seamless, without fissures or breaks. They live but one life. Then there are others, like you and me, whose lives are a series of volumes. Their stories stop and must be started up again. They must accept this is so, and put one book away on the shelf in order to start another.”
― Katherine Marsh, Jepp, Who Defied the Stars

“Is not our capacity to choose, to chase, to dream of becoming other than we are, more powerful then the patterns of the stars?”
― Katherine Marsh, Jepp, Who Defied the Stars

“To be loved is the birthright of every mewling babe, but, once grown, a man is not assured of such affection.”
― Katherine Marsh, Jepp, Who Defied the Stars

“Do you think the heart does not heal and change?”
― Katherine Marsh, Jepp, Who Defied the Stars

“It occurs to me that cities are like life itself- continual in a comforting way but also, in a more terrifying way, indifferent.”
― Katherine Marsh, Jepp, Who Defied the Stars

“Like two planets, we are conjunct for a moment, then spin away. I feel the longing the spheres must feel as they forever pass in the heavens.”
― Katherine Marsh, Jepp, Who Defied the Stars

“I am not a curiosity or a clown. I am a boy with an agile mind and aspirations to use it. We are nothing if not our hopes and dreams.”
― Katherine Marsh, Jepp, Who Defied the Stars

“Even in paradise, the world beckons.”
― Katherine Marsh, Jepp, Who Defied the Stars

“To love is to value the happiness of another as much as your own, and I love Magdalene more dearly than anyone on this earth.”
― Katherine Marsh, Jepp, Who Defied the Stars