“Love is all the small moments. It is what fills the quiet.”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Empower
“And as soon as he was gone, I saw beyond, to where Lincoln stood, exactly where I'd seen him last, when I'd begged him to trust me.
And my heart shuttered to life.
Because he had.”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Empower
“You don’t get it – you never will! You want to run towards the fire to save me even when I’m the one carrying the bucket of water. You can’t help
yourself!’
Lincoln threw his hands wide. ‘Because I fucking love you!”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Empower
“His words were so...Phoenix. A complication”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Empower
“I breathe you. I live you. I love you”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Empower
“Would you think me such a fool that you could be here, in this city, this building, this room and me not know about it?”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Empower
“This will be for life. For eternity, human and beyond. More than any commitment, than any marriage. Violet, are you ready to marry me?”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Empower
“Am I not allowed to want your happiness because it conflicts with my own?”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Empower
“I need you to live for me”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Empower
“started to sit up, but his hand snaked around my stomach and pulled me back to him. “You should try to get some more sleep,” he said. “I can’t,” I said. “Not until this is over.” He sat up beside me, taking my hand in his and quickly kissing the back of it before suggesting, “Run?” The man knows me. I glanced out the small window. The sun was yet to appear on the horizon and rain fell lightly, but the wind had eased for now. I beamed. “Coffee first.” He laughed as he stood up and tossed me a T-shirt. “Coffee first.” And it turns out, even when the world might be about to end, a girl can still swoon.”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Empower
“For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.” Matthew 7:14”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Empower
“Would you think me such a fool that you could be here, in this city, this building, THIS ROOM and me not know about it??”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Empower
“Love is never lost—only ever waiting to be found.”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Empower
Jessica Shirvington
Born date April 15, 1979
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“Ich weiß nicht, ob die verdummte Unterhaltung nach und nach dem kollektiven Intellekt unserer Nation geschadet hat oder ob die geistige Faulheit des Publikums zuerst da war und wir sie nur bedient haben.”
― quote from Torture the Artist. Joey Goebel
“So the first lesson about trusting your senses is: don’t. Just because you believe something to be true, just because you know it’s true, that doesn’t mean it is true.”
― David Eagleman, quote from Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
“Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.”
― Lewis Carroll, quote from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
“This is why, rather than go on talking, I felt the need to transform the things to be said into a cone of light hurled at a hundred miles an hour, to transform myself into this cone of light moving over the superhighway, because it is certain that such a signal can be received and understood by her without being lost in the ambiguous disorder of secondary vibrations, just as I, to receive and understand the things she has to say to me, would like them to be only (rather, I would like her to be only) this cone of light I see advancing on the superhighway at a speed (I'm guessing, at a glance) of eighty or ninety. What counts is communicating the indispensable, skipping all the superfluous, reducing ourselves to essential communication, to a luminous signal that moves in a given direction, abolishing the complexity of our personalities and situations and facial expressions, leaving them in the shadowy container that the headlights carry behind them and conceal. The Y I love is really that moving band of luminous rays, and all the rest of her can remain implicit; and the me that she can love, the me that has the power of entering that circuit of exaltation which is her affective life, in the flashing of this pass which, through love of her and with a certain risk, I am now attempting.”
― Italo Calvino, quote from The Complete Cosmicomics
“Each of us carries the map of our lives on our skin, in the way we walk, even in the way we grow.”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, quote from The Girl of Ink and Stars
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