Quotes from Now and at the Hour of Our Death

“A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.”
― J.S.B. Morse, quote from Now and at the Hour of Our Death

“A pure heart is superlatively rare and even more attractive.”
― J.S.B. Morse, quote from Now and at the Hour of Our Death

“It's a certain tragedy when agony and resentment are all you have left connecting you to someone you once loved.”
― J.S.B. Morse, quote from Now and at the Hour of Our Death

“If you spend enough time with someone who doubts you, you can't help but believe them.”
― J.S.B. Morse, quote from Now and at the Hour of Our Death

“You will never find the perfect person but you might be lucky enough to find someone who wants to be.”
― J.S.B. Morse, quote from Now and at the Hour of Our Death

“People aren't crazy, they’re just reacting normally to an abnormally crazy world.”
― J.S.B. Morse, quote from Now and at the Hour of Our Death

“If you live life so cautiously as to never fail, you end up failing at life itself.”
― J.S.B. Morse, quote from Now and at the Hour of Our Death

“Some people are like singularities. Get close enough and you will be uncontrollably consumed in an infinite attraction and will cease to exist apart from them.”
― J.S.B. Morse, quote from Now and at the Hour of Our Death

“That’s life. It’s a series of knock-down, drag-out fights with yourself and others that will leave you lying on the ground bruised and bloody and drooling all over your shag carpeting. But all that doesn’t define you, your reaction to it does. Your environment doesn’t make you who you are, your choices — your beliefs, do.”
― J.S.B. Morse, quote from Now and at the Hour of Our Death

“Change is inevitable. If you don’t seek it out, it will seek you out.”
― J.S.B. Morse, quote from Now and at the Hour of Our Death

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“The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. I suppose that it begins or does not begin in the cradle. Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will, for she is a singularly blessed and accepting child, delighted with life exactly as life presents itself to her, unafraid to go to sleep and unafraid to wake up. Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.”
― Joan Didion, quote from Slouching Towards Bethlehem

“Against the sky, the stars crown him, marking the edges of his silhouette like he is a constellation of himself.”
― Mackenzi Lee, quote from The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

“Vultures devour the fallen. Hyenas destroy the weak. Humans kill that which they fear. Survive and be strong, or die, cornered by your prey, trembling because the night is dark.”
― Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, quote from In the Forests of the Night

“You wanna beer?”
Jasper’s brows shot up. “Seriously?”
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― Kristen Ashley, quote from Golden Trail

“But all I said, as I dug a five from my pocket to pay for my soda, was, "You have a friend?"

Tod scowled. "Well, I wouldn't call him a friend according to the traditional definition, but in the sense that he imposes on me constantly and isn't afraid to point out my flaws, I'd say he qualifies."

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― Rachel Vincent, quote from My Soul to Keep

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