Jump Quotes

“When you are in the middle of a story, it isn’t a story at all, but only a confusion, a dark roaring blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids and all onboard powerless to stop it. It’s only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you are telling it to yourself or to someone else’ MARGARET ATWOOD”
― Daniella Moyles, Jump: One Girl's Search For Meaning

“despite his lack of access to good food, and he had managed to teach himself decent conversational English, despite his lack of access to proper education. His animated deep brown eyes staring out from above his protruding cheekbones broke my heart. I”
― Daniella Moyles, Jump: One Girl's Search For Meaning

“When we know ourselves better, we can do better. When we can see what it is we lack, we can work to fill ourselves up. When we know what it is that has hurt us, made us angry, fearful or ashamed, we can become free from the unconscious grip of reaction and act out of conscious, considered choice.”
― Daniella Moyles, Jump: One Girl's Search For Meaning