“[...] just remember, the storm doesn't last forever. It can scare you; it can shake you to your core. But it never lasts. The rain subsides, the thunder dies, and the winds calm to a soft whisper. And that moment after the storm clouds pass, when all is silent and still, you find peace. Quiet, gentle peace.”
― S.L. Jennings, quote from Fear of Falling
“Life may not be pretty but it's always beautiful. We may only see the ugliness on the surface. The shit that only the world chooses to notice. But, if we dig deep, if we get to the heart of life, where there's no pain or fear, where we can just be who we are and love freely without judgement, it's really beautiful.”
― S.L. Jennings, quote from Fear of Falling
“You don't have to be afraid of falling. Just close your eyes, let go, and know that I'll always be here with arms outstretched, ready to catch you.”
― S.L. Jennings, quote from Fear of Falling
“He was't just my exception. He was my reason.”
― S.L. Jennings, quote from Fear of Falling
“Funny thing about life is that it never turns out the way you want it to.”
― S.L. Jennings, quote from Fear of Falling
“[...] when you know, you know. And you don't fight it. You don;t deny the inevitable. You free fall because you know there's someone there to catch you on the other side.”
― S.L. Jennings, quote from Fear of Falling
“Your fears are not you. Do you hear me? They don't define who you are.”
― S.L. Jennings, quote from Fear of Falling
“Don't worry," he smiled, pulling me into the hard warmth of his chest. "I've got you. I'll always catch you when you fall.”
― S.L. Jennings, quote from Fear of Falling
“You can't expect to save someone that doesn't want to be saved.”
― S.L. Jennings, quote from Fear of Falling
“Love. It was the thing that bound us and tore us apart. It was our disease and the remedy of our shattered hearts. It was a sonofabitch.”
― S.L. Jennings, quote from Fear of Falling
“Some people you couldn’t help but love. You loved them without reservation or fear. You loved them hard and fierce, because they deserved it. They deserved to be loved just as much as you deserved for them to return it.”
― S.L. Jennings, quote from Fear of Falling
“Blaine, the scariest part about love isn’t love itself. It’s letting go and plunging into the unknown. It’s trusting someone with the very most sacred part of your heart. It’s allowing yourself to feel something foreign and uncharted, despite how much it terrifies the hell out of you”
― S.L. Jennings, quote from Fear of Falling
“So I’m telling you, Kami, I won’t miss you anymore. I won’t hurt for you. I won’t need you like I do. And I won’t love you. Loving you is what caused all this. It’s what ruined us. And I am so sorry for that. I hate myself for failing you. For not being enough to save you. But I won’t fail you again. If this is what you need—for me to never think of you again—then that is what I am going to do. I’ll forget you. I’ll stop loving you like I do. Because, dammit, I do. So much it fucking tears me apart.I hope this is what you want. I know I didn’t get it right the first time, but I promise to try like hell to make it better.Always (Never)”
― S.L. Jennings, quote from Fear of Falling
“Life happens. That was much more appropriate. Unfortunately, many of us found that out earlier than some. We found out just how awful life could really be. We found out that monsters were, indeed, real. They walked among us. They looked just like you and me. They came in the form of the people that we loved and trusted the most. The people whose only job was to love and protect us. Funny thing about life is that it never turns out the way you want it to. It’s never fair. It’s harsh and brutal. It kicks you when you’re down. It makes you wish you could give up and part with it just to have a semblance of peace. ”
― S.L. Jennings, quote from Fear of Falling
“I couldn't see anything beyond this. Beyond her. Beyond us.
(Blaine)”
― S.L. Jennings, quote from Fear of Falling
“I know you said you don't feel anything," he whispered. "But can you honestly say that you don't feel this? That this heat, this attraction, is all in my head? Don't think about it; just answer. Tell me what your heart wants to say and not what your head keeps trying to make you believe.”
― S.L. Jennings, quote from Fear of Falling
“This is not a story for the faint of heart; this is the story of one woman's very real struggle through a world against her, the people who hurt her, her real life demons and the people who showed her that every gray sky, no matter how dark, has a sun waiting to break through.”
― S.L. Jennings, quote from Fear of Falling
“He had the eyes of a man that had seen things. Eyes that were soulful and wise, yet vibrant and sultry. Eyes that made me want to run away, yet urged me to stay.”
― S.L. Jennings, quote from Fear of Falling
“I needed to touch her. In that moment, it had become as necessary to me as air.”
― S.L. Jennings, quote from Fear of Falling
“Sometimes, loving people can be as much of a gift as it is a curse. Because some people... you can't help but love. Even if you know it will hurt you in the end.”
― S.L. Jennings, quote from Fear of Falling
“I’m afraid because, whenever he’s around, I’m not scared anymore. I feel…safe. Like being near him is the most natural thing in the world.”
― S.L. Jennings, quote from Fear of Falling
“But I am very persistent. I never give up on the things that I want. This... you and me... it's inevitable. Theren't no use in fighting, Kami. It's going to happen. And when you are madly in love with me, the only thing you'll regret is not falling sooner.”
― S.L. Jennings, quote from Fear of Falling
“I'm not looking thru you Kami, I'm looking into you. I'm standing here, wondering how the hell a girl so beautiful could hold so much sadness in her gorgeous green eyes. And I'm asking myself why I want- no- why I NEED to know what's made her so sad. And what I can do to take away every ounce of that sadness. I need to know what it will take for you to let me in, so I can do just that.”
― S.L. Jennings, quote from Fear of Falling
“But, we fear what we don't understand, and I didn't understand the feelings I had for Blaine.”
― S.L. Jennings, quote from Fear of Falling
“You are so beautiful, Kami. And so strong. If you only knew how amazing you are...I'll make you see it. I'll make you fee it.”
― S.L. Jennings, quote from Fear of Falling
“Do you want me, baby? Tell me you want me. Tell me you feel this too.”
― S.L. Jennings, quote from Fear of Falling
“It reminded me that pain was necessary. Pain was life's curveball. Without it, we would never appreciate what it felt like to be loved.”
― S.L. Jennings, quote from Fear of Falling
“My name is Kami and I am constantly afraid. And the thing that scares me the most is the very thing I want.”
― S.L. Jennings, quote from Fear of Falling
“Kami's demons had somehow become mine without me even knowing them. And I swore on my life that I would fight every one of them, I would fight for her.”
― S.L. Jennings, quote from Fear of Falling
“Maybe before a big storm rolls in, you’ll use it to catch fireflies (see, I did remember something, city mouse. But they’re still lightning bugs down here). And if you do, just remember, the storm doesn’t last forever. It can scare you; it can shake you to your core. But it never lasts. The rain subsides, the thunder dies, and the winds calm to a soft whisper. And that moment after the storm clouds pass, when all is silent and still, you find peace. Quiet, gentle peace. That’s what I wish for you. Even if you couldn’t find it with me.”
― S.L. Jennings, quote from Fear of Falling
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“If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with banknotes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coalmines which are then filled up to the surface with town rubbish, and leave it to private enterprise on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again (the right to do so being obtained, of course, by tendering for leases of the note-bearing territory), there need be no more unemployment and, with the help of the repercussions, the real income of the community, and its capital wealth also, would probably become a good deal greater than it actually is. It would, indeed, be more sensible to build houses and the like; but if there are political and practical difficulties in the way of this, the above would be better than nothing.”
― John Maynard Keynes, quote from The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
“Bond slowly, wearily bent his head and looked at the ground between his spread hands. It was the girl, Tilly. She was watching the buildings below. She had a rifle – a rifle that must have been among the innocent golf clubs – ready to fire on them. Damn and blast the silly bitch!”
― Ian Fleming, quote from Goldfinger
“I think... that love encompasses the experience of the possible transition from the pure randomness of chance to a state that has universal value. Starting out from something that is simply an encounter, a trifle, you learn that you can experience the world on the basis of difference and not only in terms of identity. And you can even be tested and suffer in the process. In today's world, it is generally thought that individuals only pursue their self-interest. Love is an antidote to that. Provided it isn't conceived only as an exchange of mutual favours, or isn't calculated way in advance as a profitable investment, love really is a unique trust placed in chance. It takes us into key areas of the experience of what is difference and, essentially, leads to the idea that you can experience the world from the perspective of difference. In this respect it has universal implications: it is an individual experience of potential universality, and is thus central to philosophy, as Plato was the first to intuit.”
― Alain Badiou, quote from In Praise of Love
“Dr. N: How do you manage to hold each other with no bodies?
S: (with a sigh of exasperation at me) We envelop each other in light, of course.
Dr. N: Tell me what that is like for spirits?
S: Like being wrapped in a bright-light blanket of love.”
― Michael Newton, quote from Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives
“For instance, some evangelicals have turned Proverbs 31 into a woman’s job description instead of what it actually is: the blessing and affirmation of valor for the lives of women, memorized by Jewish husbands for the purpose of honoring their wives at the family table. It is meant as a celebration for the everyday moments of valor for everyday women, not as an impossible exhausting standard.”
― Sarah Bessey, quote from Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women
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