Quotes from The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed.”
― Mary E. Pearson, quote from The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“My timing is off. But I had to get it out. Some things you have to tell, no matter how stupid they may sound. Some things you can't save for later. There might not be a later. ”
― Mary E. Pearson, quote from The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“Pieces.
A bit for someone here.
A bit there.
And sometimes they don't add up to anything whole.
But you are so busy dancing.
Delivering.
You don't have time to notice.
Or are afraid to notice.
And then one day you have to look.
And it's true.
All of your pieces fill up other people's holes.
But they don't fill
your own.”
― Mary E. Pearson, quote from The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side can't see the other. They don't know they are connected.”
― Mary E. Pearson, quote from The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“I think that maybe forgiveness is like change - it comes in small steps. (256)”
― Mary E. Pearson, quote from The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“There is something about her eyes. Eyes don't breathe. I know that much. But hers look breathless.”
― Mary E. Pearson, quote from The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“I thought grandmothers had to like you. It’s a law or something.”
― Mary E. Pearson, quote from The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“Where we are going, I don't know. It doesn't seem to be the place that is important but the steps in between.”
― Mary E. Pearson, quote from The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“When you are perfect, is there anywhere else to go?”
― Mary E. Pearson, quote from The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“I don't want five hundred billion neural chips. I want guts.”
― Mary E. Pearson, quote from The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“I decide that sometimes definitions are wrong. Even if they're written in a dictionary. Identities aren't always separate and distinct. Sometimes they ARE wrapped up with others. Sometimes, for a few minutes, maybe they can even be shared. And if I am ever fortunate enough to return to Mr. Bender's garden, I wonder if the birds will see that piece of him that is wrapped up in me.”
― Mary E. Pearson, quote from The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“There are many words and definitions I have never lost. But some I am only just beginning to truly understand.”
― Mary E. Pearson, quote from The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“Pieces. Isn't that what all of life is anyway? Shards. Bits. Moments. Am I less because I have fewer, or do the few I have mean more?”
― Mary E. Pearson, quote from The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“...and time becomes a forgotten detail.”
― Mary E. Pearson, quote from The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“I know you have the patience of a rapidly decomposing turd.”
― Mary E. Pearson, quote from The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“Father says it will come in time. “Time heals,” he says.
I don’t tell him that I don’t know what time is.”
― Mary E. Pearson, quote from The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“Awareness
There is a dark place.
A place where I have no eyes, no mouth. No words.
I can't cry out because I have no breath. The silence is so deep I want to die.
But I can't.
The darkness and silence go on forever.
It is not a dream.
I don't dream.”
― Mary E. Pearson, quote from The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“Do certain events in our lives leave a permanent mark, freezing a piece of us in time, and that becomes a touchstone that we measure the rest of our lives against?”
― Mary E. Pearson, quote from The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“Are the details of our lives who we are, or is it owning those details that makes the difference?”
― Mary E. Pearson, quote from The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“I still cry on waking. I'm not sure why. I feel nothing. Nothing I can name, anyway. It's like breathing - something that happens over which I have no control. (6)”
― Mary E. Pearson, quote from The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“One small changed family doesn't calculate into a world that has been spinning for a billion years. But one small change makes the world spin differently in a billion ways for one family.”
― Mary E. Pearson, quote from The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“I almost could.
I could almost leave and never look back.
Like Mr. Bender, I could leave everything I was behind, including my name.
Leave because of Allys
and all the things she says I am.
Leave because of all the things I am afraid that I will never be again.
Leave, because maybe I’m not enough.
Leave because of Allys, Senator Harris, and half the world knows better than Father and Mother and maybe Ethan, too.
Leave.
Because the old Jenna was so absorbed in her own needs
that she said yes when she knows she should have said no,
and the shame of night
could be hidden in a new place behind a new name.
But friends are complicated.
There is the staying.
Staying because of Kara and Locke and all that they will never
be except trapped.
Staying because for them, time is running out and I am their
their last chance.
Staying for the old Jenna and all she owes Kara and Locke and maybe all the new Jenna owes them, too.
Staying because of ten percent and all I hope I might be.
Staying because of Mr. Bender’s erased life and regrets.
Staying for connection.
Staying because two me
is enough to make one of me
worth nothing at all.
And staying because maybe Lily does love the new Jenna
as much as the old one, after all.
Because maybe, given time, people do change,
maybe laws change.
Maybe we all change.”
― Mary E. Pearson, quote from The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“I used to be someone.

Someone named Jenna Fox.

That's what they tell me. But I am more than a name. More than they tell me. More than the facts and statistics they fill me with. More than the video clips they make me watch.

More. But I'm not sure what.”
― Mary E. Pearson, quote from The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can't define your identity.”
― Mary E. Pearson, quote from The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“How can you be sure?"

"I'm a doctor, Jenna. And a scientist."

"Does that make you an authority on everything? What about a soul, Father? When you were so busy implanting all your neural chips, did you think about that? Did you snip my soul from my old body, too? Where did you put it? Show me! Where? Where in all this groundbreaking technology did you insert my soul?”
― Mary E. Pearson, quote from The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“It's the unknown that I fear, the bites of memories that still have no connections.”
― Mary E. Pearson, quote from The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“I wonder at the weight of a Sparrow.”
― Mary E. Pearson, quote from The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“Tell me who I am. (29)”
― Mary E. Pearson, quote from The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“But I am more than a name. More than they tell me”
― Mary E. Pearson, quote from The Adoration of Jenna Fox

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