Quotes from Jacob Have I Loved

“To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.”
― Katherine Paterson, quote from Jacob Have I Loved

“If you could hold your nose to avoid a stink, or close your eyes to cut out a sight, why not shut off your brain to avoid a thought?”
― Katherine Paterson, quote from Jacob Have I Loved

“But then, oh, my blessed, he smiled. I guess from that moment I knew I was going to marry Joseph Wojtkiewicz--God, pope, three motherless children, unspellable name and all. For when he smiled, he looked like the kind of man who would sing to the oysters.”
― Katherine Paterson, quote from Jacob Have I Loved

“All my dreams of leaving, but beneath them I was afraid to go. I had clung to them, to Rass, yes, even to my grandmother, afraid that if I loosened my fingers an iota, I would find myself once more cold and clean in a forgotten basket.”
― Katherine Paterson, quote from Jacob Have I Loved

“I was quite sure I was crazy, and it was amazing that as soon as I admitted it, I became quite calm. There was nothing I could do about it. I seemed relatively harmless. After”
― Katherine Paterson, quote from Jacob Have I Loved

“suppose if alcohol had been available to me that November, I would have become a drunk. As it was, the only thing I could lose my miserable self in was books. We”
― Katherine Paterson, quote from Jacob Have I Loved

“Don't tell me no one ever gave you a chance. You don't need anything given to you. You can make your own chances. But first you have to know what you're after, my dear.”
― Katherine Paterson, quote from Jacob Have I Loved

“I was not happy in any way that would make sense to most people, but I was, for the first time in my life, deeply content with what life was giving me. Part”
― Katherine Paterson, quote from Jacob Have I Loved

“Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied”
― Katherine Paterson, quote from Jacob Have I Loved

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