Jonathan's Vows Quotes

“It’s like a scene from Orwell’s 1984, except it is real, and it is now. We are all just cases and numbers.”
― Mark Lages, Jonathan’s Vows

“We will make up tonight or tomorrow. We will get along fine the next day and the next and the next—until we do it again, until the pot boils over, until we forget our love and throw around another batch of hurtful words. But until then, we will get along fine. Still, I can’t help but wonder if one of these times, we’re going to go too far.”
― Mark Lages, Jonathan’s Vows

“You can’t fill an empty bottle with it, you can’t wrap it up or put a bow on it, and you certainly can’t measure it. It has no weight, yet it can be as heavy as a mountain. It’s invisible, yet it can be as plain as the nose on your face. You won’t see it coming, yet it can hit you like a ton of bricks. It can knock you out. It can tickle you and make you laugh. It can move you to madness, and it can launch a thousand ships. It provokes you to do the craziest things. It can calm you, agitate you, motivate you, hurt you, and inspire you. No one knows where it comes from, why it is, or where it is going. You can’t force it, and you can’t ignore it. You can fight it tooth and nail, but odds are that it will be victorious. Sometimes it’s logical, and sometimes it makes no sense at all. I think we all experience it at one time or another. Some of us are much more susceptible to it than others. It makes us yearn, envy, hope, scheme, pity, and hate. Wise men and women will cherish it, and fools will take it for granted. Me? I don’t know if I’m a wise man or a fool—sometimes I’m one, and sometimes I’m the other. Sometimes I wish I’d never heard of it, and sometimes I believe I can’t live without it. Love,”
― Mark Lages, Jonathan’s Vows