The Arrival of Someday Quotes

“Unanswered questions leave more room for possibilities.
-Maybe/Maybe Not Dying Girl”
― Jen Malone, The Arrival of Someday

“Because the harshest truth, the truth that's been there all the while, is that the worst thing you can ever imagine happening...? Some days it actually does.”
― Jen Malone, The Arrival of Someday

“Now I know that you can soak your skin in starlight and scrub your lungs with noonday winds and trail your fingers through ombre sunrises and call yourself the granddaughter of the witches they couldn't burn, and none of that breath or beauty or blaze is ward or amulet.”
― Jen Malone, The Arrival of Someday

“Isn't that what the process of making the art is for, to reveal yourself who you truly are? Let the blank page whisper to you.”
― Jen Malone, The Arrival of Someday

“And if you have curiousity, you have everything: 1. It's nearly impossible for you to be bored. 2. You'll be a lifelong learner. 3. You'll probably be a traveler. 4. You'll definitely be an empathetic person, because you'll want to learn people's stories and what makes them tick.”
― Jen Malone, The Arrival of Someday

“I want you to steam out of the pressure cooker. By crying over sappyy videos, yes. The trick is, you can keep it from being personal; the tears don't have to be about you. You just have to release what's in there. Okay?

And then when we've cried all the tears, we switch to epic fail compilations and laugh our heads off.”
― Jen Malone, The Arrival of Someday

“Undecided' sounds terrible; I hate uncertainty. This doesn't feel like drifitng aimlessly to me though, because I have a solid plan. It just happens to be a plan to try everything, like a big ol' college buffet. One helping of Anthropology of Food, one side of Introduction to Oceanography, one spoonful of History of Opera... I think it's more like 'overdecided'.”
― Jen Malone, The Arrival of Someday

“I'm totally up for adventure anytime, anyplace, but having somewhere familiar to curl up afterward is key.”
― Jen Malone, The Arrival of Someday

“Fear is not the boss of me; courage is.”
― Jen Malone, The Arrival of Someday

“What's the boss of us?"
"Courage!"
"What's never the boss of us?"
"Fear!”
― Jen Malone, The Arrival of Someday