“We're all just in the muck trying to believe we're capable of greatness, but closer to breaking than we want to admit. And we tell ourselves stories--about ourselves,but maybe also all these stories about other people, about characters--as a way to hide from how small we are.”
― J.J. Abrams, quote from S.
“It's what happens. You love, then you lose, then you die. Even if you survive, you die.”
― J.J. Abrams, quote from S.
“It's not a bad way to live once you let go of the idea that you deserve more.”
― J.J. Abrams, quote from S.
“What begins at the water shall end there, and what ends there shall once more begin.”
― J.J. Abrams, quote from S.
“-It's extremely cool how the words can stay the same but their meaning can change.
-Because the reader changes.
-EXACTLY”
― J.J. Abrams, quote from S.
“Do you always travel with such cumbersome books?" "I don't trust anyone who wouldn't.”
― J.J. Abrams, quote from S.
“- I can't make choices like that without knowing who I am. Without knowing all the implications.
- You can't ever know in advance. Big decisions require faith.”
― J.J. Abrams, quote from S.
“A person is no more & no less than the Story of his Passions & Deeds.”
― J.J. Abrams, quote from S.
“They're not terrible people. They just couldn't be who I needed them to be.”
― J.J. Abrams, quote from S.
“It was stolen. As most beautiful things eventually are.”
― J.J. Abrams, quote from S.
“They all occupied the same space but did not occupy it together. Imagine a thousand leaves of tracing paper, each with one person lightly pencilled on it, all stacked atop a scene of a frozen city block. A thousand discreet and solitary realities that appear to be occurring in the same location.”
― J.J. Abrams, quote from S.
“He is a man without a past sailing in a strange sea in a world where the stars have come loose in the firmament.”
― J.J. Abrams, quote from S.
“-I hate that. I hate that people can't just say what they mean.
-You don't. Not always.
-I never say anything I don't mean. I just avoid saying some things that I do.”
― J.J. Abrams, quote from S.
“The thing is: you might be right to trust someone at one point, but they can change."
"+ in between they must be drifting from trustworthy to not. But you can't tell how far they've drifted until it's too late.”
― J.J. Abrams, quote from S.
“For one moment, it is more important to take in the spectacular than to worry about the pressing business of staying alive.”
― J.J. Abrams, quote from S.
“I think it's love.'
'Funny.'
'I'm serious.'
'And your support for this is...?'
'A feeling.'
'You need more than that.”
― J.J. Abrams, quote from S.
“What begins at the water shall end there, and what ends there shall once more begin. Words are a gift to the dead and a warning to the living.”
― J.J. Abrams, quote from S.
“There's a spiritual connection between flame and narrative.”
― J.J. Abrams, quote from S.
“This is what happens, of course: men get lost, men vanish, men are erased and reborn.”
― J.J. Abrams, quote from S.
“Time and circumstances change us...and it is pointless to ask why.”
― J.J. Abrams, quote from S.
“Something about her in this moment strikes him as being familiar. The motion of her arm? The shape of her hand? The wrinkle of her upper lip? He does not know. Nor does he have any way to tell whether what he is sensing is a fragment of memory, a fragment of an idea of a memory, or something his mind, desperate for connections, has created on its own.”
― J.J. Abrams, quote from S.
“To be a self rewritten from a lost first draft.”
― J.J. Abrams, quote from S.
“Of course there is a monkey. There is always a monkey.”
― J.J. Abrams, quote from S.
“-That's kind of sad.
-I used to think so. Now I think: you're born a certain way. Later you get to decide how much you want to fight/change that. I don't mind being alone.
-You must mind. If you didn't you wouldn't be doing this with me.”
― J.J. Abrams, quote from S.
“This is where his life - his remade life - has brought him. Each strange juncture has led to the next and now he is here. He is here, and it is nowhere.”
― J.J. Abrams, quote from S.
“They speak little; it is as if the air has been churned up with decade's worth of fruitless pursuit and missed connections and thoughts unspoken, and they are waiting quietly for all this matter — these motes of opportunity forgone — to settle around them.”
― J.J. Abrams, quote from S.
“The feeling, for those seconds, is glorious—it reminds him that he is human, that he is so insignificant as to be utterly free, and he is being guided along gracefully, lovingly, by the hand of Nature—and it frees him, however transiently, from all worry and fear and fury and grief. 'I enjoyed that,' he says aloud, as much to the stars as to the rower.”
― J.J. Abrams, quote from S.
“Do you always travel with such cumbersome books?'
'I don't trust anyone who wouldn't.”
― J.J. Abrams, quote from S.
“If I am going out into the unknown, it might as well be the really unknown.”
― J.J. Abrams, quote from S.
“When you fall in love, friends, let yourself fall.”
― J.J. Abrams, quote from S.
J.J. Abrams
Born place: in New York, New York, The United States
Born date June 27, 1966
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“Interesting choice," Sullivan said. He slid his gaze over to Paul, who was drumming his fingers on the table in a manic, caffeine-inspired way and blinking a lot. Paul wasn't out-and-out singing along with the king of the dead, but he might as well have put out a big neon sign saying "How's My Driving? Ask Me About My Nerves: 1-800-WIG-N-OUT."
--James”
― Maggie Stiefvater, quote from Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie
“At first, being with Sebastian was like being in the middle of the best dream I'd ever had - but now it mostly feels exhausting. I'm up one minute and down the next; questioning what I say and do. Even questioning my sanity.”
― Candace Bushnell, quote from The Carrie Diaries
“A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different.”
― John Buchan, quote from The 39 Steps
“When the government designates as punishable all play of mind against the state, the moderate liberals come and opine that fun, satire, wit, humor, etc., must have free play anyhow, and genius must enjoy freedom. So not the individual man indeed, but still genius, is to be free. Here the state, or in its name the government, says with perfect right: He who is not for me is against me.”
― Max Stirner, quote from The Ego and Its Own
“Puesto que no hay remedio, tengamos valor con la muerte. Abracemos esta horrible idea con pecho firme; considerémosla cara a cara. Pidámosle cuenta de lo que es; sepamos qué quiere de nosotros; volvámosla en todos sentidos; descifremos el enigma y miremos de antemano en el sepulcro.”
― Victor Hugo, quote from The Last Day of a Condemned Man
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