The Taken Ones Quotes

“A man is responsible for his own actions. Not the actions of others.”
― Jess Lourey, The Taken Ones

“Worry grows like a weed inside me”
― Jess Lourey, The Taken Ones

“Most of us try to heal our wounds by operating on others.”
― Jess Lourey, The Taken Ones

“Everyone craves justice; few of us want it at our own expense.”
― Jess Lourey, The Taken Ones

“Why do people only say that about women when they’re referring to thankless jobs, like cleaning or raising kids, and never when they’re talking about who they’d vote for as president?”
― Jess Lourey, The Taken Ones

“Given enough time, your cage becomes your home.”
― Jess Lourey, The Taken Ones

“Eyes with a knowing that I hadn’t seen in over ten years.”
― Jess Lourey, The Taken Ones

“drugs,”
― Jess Lourey, The Taken Ones

“Everyone wants to tell you something about yourself, but no one wants to see themselves, not really.”
― Jess Lourey, The Taken Ones

“Never trust someone just because they’re acting nice.”
― Jess Lourey, The Taken Ones

“You never really forget your first love, though, do you? He’d read that somewhere. How you spend the rest of your life trying to fill the hole they left.”
― Jess Lourey, The Taken Ones

“Being nice isn’t a personality trait,” I said, a tingling sensation returning to my fingers. “It’s a strategy. Never trust someone just because they’re acting nice.”
― Jess Lourey, The Taken Ones

“Fewer than 1 percent of abductions were committed by strangers,”
― Jess Lourey, The Taken Ones

“Keep it quiet,” she said without even looking at him, accordioning her cigarette into the tin tray left behind from her lunchtime TV dinner. Same thing she always said when he came home.”
― Jess Lourey, The Taken Ones

“Mr. Shaw’s chin quivered, his eyes as bright as gemstones in the cracked landscape of his face. His layers of shirts—I counted four—had likely started out as all different colors but had blurred to shades of brown over time.”
― Jess Lourey, The Taken Ones

“In the US, every generation of kids claimed a similar bauble, popular for a month or two in middle school. You gave your friend one half and kept the other. If you were sentimental, you hung on to yours into adulthood, and it ended up in some keepsake box full of valentines and ticket stubs that your kids had to throw out when you died.”
― Jess Lourey, The Taken Ones

“You’d think when you grew up that it wouldn’t matter anymore, the bullying. The exclusion. But it did. Punched me right back to my childhood. There I was again, a knock-kneed girl sporting hand-sewn clothes and a church cult haircut.”
― Jess Lourey, The Taken Ones

“His tail speed doubled. If there’d been a vase within three feet, he’d have knocked it into next week.”
― Jess Lourey, The Taken Ones

“He lumbered to his feet, shuffling toward me. He was eight years old, close to the end of the line for a big dog. He had the tail of a puppy, though.”
― Jess Lourey, The Taken Ones

“ethylene”
― Jess Lourey, The Taken Ones