“… his light to my dark. His truth to my lies. His sacrifices to my selfishness.”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Disruption
“Never forget. I know that you know.”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Disruption
“But people should have the right to become whatever they’re going to be before they are judged and sentenced.”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Disruption
“For the first time in my life, I’m right where I’m supposed to be”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Disruption
“Dead yet?" Gus answered.
I smirked. "Not yet, but the night's still young."
"Here's hoping.”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Disruption
“I’d see this through to the end… This promise above all others, I will gladly keep.”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Disruption
“It had only taken nine years for the world to change completely… You’d have thought we’d fight harder and stronger.”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Disruption
“The person staring back at me was a stranger. Someone who had taken the girl I was two years ago and stripped her down only to rebuild a different person. Now I was strong, I was capable and smart. They were the good qualities. But I was also calculated, manipulative and selfish. These were the things I promised myself I wouldn't be. After I found him. After we put this right.”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Disruption
“What are appropriate shoes?’ he asked, standing. ‘Shoes you can run for your life in,’ Gus answered helpfully. Then added, unnecessarily, ‘Welcome to the Maggie-verse.”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Disruption
“Gus leaned back in his chair, appearing satisfied.
"Good," he said. "Cause Maggie's all the nightmare I can take."
I smiled. "Gus, I never knew you dreamed of me."
He gave me a one-fingered salute”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Disruption
“Good,’ he said. ‘Cause Maggie’s all the nightmare I can take.’
I smiled. ‘Gus, I never knew you dreamed of me.’
He gave me a one-fingered salute.”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Disruption
Jessica Shirvington
Born date April 15, 1979
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“I know you mean well, but you have to remember that things don't always work out like they do in your storybooks.”
― Melissa Hill, quote from Something From Tiffany’s
“The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday—but never jam to-day.”
“It must come sometimes to ‘jam to-day,’” Alice objected.
“No, it ca’n’t,” said the Queen. “It’s jam every other day: to-day isn’t any other day, you know”
― Lewis Carroll, quote from Through the Looking Glass
“You want to know what I'm afraid of? All right, I'll tell you. I'm afraid of men - yes, I'm very much afraid of men. And I'm even more afraid of women. And I'm very much afraid of the whole bloody human race. Afraid of them? Of course I'm afraid of them. Who wouldn't be afraid of a pack of damned hyenas? [...] And when I say afraid - that's just a word I use. What I really mean is that I hate them. I hate their voices, I hate their eyes, I hate the way they laugh. I hate the whole bloody business. It's cruel, it's idiotic, it's unspeakably horrible. I never had the guts to kill myself or I'd have got out of it long ago.”
― Jean Rhys, quote from Good Morning, Midnight
“Courage faces fear and thereby masters it”
― Martin Luther King Jr., quote from Strength to Love
“When a pope dies, cardinals from all over the world collect in the Vatican and begin to meet in what they call General Congregations. In April 2005 the first few days of these meetings were spent in absorbing the implications of the death of the man the Vatican swiftly dubbed John Paul the Great. Santo Subito, the crowds in St Peter’s Square had cried: Make him a Saint Now!”
― quote from Pope Francis: Untying the Knots
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