“The pain comes from more than the facts of circumstance, or the deeds of others. It comes from within. From understanding what we lost. It comes from knowing how foolish we were - vain, arrogant children - when we thought ourselves happy. It comes from knowing how fragile and doomed the old ways were, just when we thought them and ourselves, secure!. The pain comes from knowing we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again. ”
― John Jakes, quote from Heaven and Hell
“Losing innocence. Remembering Heaven. That was the essence of Hell”
― John Jakes, quote from Heaven and Hell
“I don't know if there is any place on this earth that I belong.”
― John Jakes, quote from Heaven and Hell
“It is too late. I love him. I know it may bring me grief, and I can't do a thing about it. Mr. Congreve was right about love being a frailty of the mind.”
― John Jakes, quote from Heaven and Hell
“They had thought him such a 'good' man. They should have learned it was dangerous to trust appearances or take strangers at their word in this shit-hole world.”
― John Jakes, quote from Heaven and Hell
“the public was tired of divisive politics, tired of radical social programs.”
― John Jakes, quote from Heaven and Hell
John Jakes
Born place: in Chicago, The United States
Born date March 31, 1932
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“[H]e had this view of things - that most human activity was utter folly, his own included, and that his existence in the world made others nervous.”
― David Guterson, quote from Snow Falling on Cedars
“Most of us, I suppose, have a secret country but for most of us it is only an imaginary country. Edmund and Lucy were luckier than other people in that respect.”
― C.S. Lewis, quote from The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
“The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.”
― Virginia Woolf, quote from To the Lighthouse
“That the crowd always likes a holiday is a common saying, but when the whole year becomes one long holiday, and nobody has time for attending to his business, and pleasure becomes compulsory, then it is a different matter.”
― Robert Graves, quote from I, Claudius
“At times our need for a sympathetic gesture is so great that we care not what exactly it signifies or how much we may have to pay for it afterwards.”
― E.M. Forster, quote from A Room with a View
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