Doubt Quotes

“In life you could stifle doubt. You buried it as complaints or dissatisfaction when you didn’t believe you could change anything. But if you could change things, then doubt became an invitation to do so. Rather than being crippling or a sign of lacking self-confidence, doubt served as a test of conviction. Who are you? What is your life worth?”
― Jenny Schwartz, Doubt

“Aristotle. “Long ago, on Earth, he talked about friendship as being of three kinds. Where we can use someone or they can use us. A friendship of utility. Then there is the friendship that comes from deriving pleasure from a shared activity. Both of those types of friendship disappear when the utility or shared activity ends. The third type of friendship, of purely appreciating your friend, of valuing them for their inherent virtues and not for what you gain from being in relationship with them, is the rarest but the best.”
― Jenny Schwartz, Doubt

“Long ago, on Earth, he talked about friendship as being of three kinds. Where we can use someone or they can use us. A friendship of utility. Then there is the friendship that comes from deriving pleasure from a shared activity. Both of those types of friendship disappear when the utility or shared activity ends. The third type of friendship, of purely appreciating your friend, of valuing them for their inherent virtues and not for what you gain from being in relationship with them, is the rarest but the best.”
― Jenny Schwartz, Doubt

“Interest and attraction didn’t mean love. But when you found someone who was worth complicating your life for and you couldn’t forget them… Liam”
― Jenny Schwartz, Doubt

“their lives.” She popped the dough in the fridge to rest, and cleaned up the kitchen. Lucas moved out of the way as she did so, but he didn’t help. She didn’t expect him to. This was her mess. She owned it. Even if he would eat the ravioli.”
― Jenny Schwartz, Doubt

“in loving her passionately, he’d convinced her she was worth loving. One person could change the trajectory of another person’s life.”
― Jenny Schwartz, Doubt

“As far as I know. No one knows the future, Nora. Go after what you want.”
― Jenny Schwartz, Doubt

“Before she could chase her thoughts in another dizzying spiral of procrastination, Nora messaged Claire. “Do you have time for coffee?”
― Jenny Schwartz, Doubt

“Liam stared at the safe in the corner of his office. It had become a habit to fix his gaze on it while he evaluated unpalatable decisions.”
― Jenny Schwartz, Doubt

“Good manners were merely the formalized expression of kindness.”
― Jenny Schwartz, Doubt

“rusting in orbit”
― Jenny Schwartz, Doubt