“Sometimes we put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Hollow Crown
“Where there is reverence, there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear has a wider scope than reverence. We fear what we cannot see. We fear what we do see. We fear what we cannot know. We fear what we do know. We fear what may not happen. We fear what does happen. Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. If only because it finally puts an end to fear. Myrddin”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Hollow Crown
“No pain that we suffer, lass, no trial that we experience is ever for naught. Hardships teach us qualities we can get in no other way. Like patience, faith, fortitude . . . and humility.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Hollow Crown
“By all means, marry, I told him. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher. Myrddin”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Hollow Crown
“But the most rare are the ones that are both invisible to us and to others. Those we are blind to. They may be our greatest weakness of all.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Hollow Crown
“We all have weaknesses. Some we know about ourselves, and they are obvious to others too. Then we have faults that we are blind to ourselves, but are plain to everyone else. Some weaknesses we deliberately conceal from others. But the most rare are the ones that are both invisible to us and to others. Those we are blind to. They may be our greatest weakness of all.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Hollow Crown
“Sometimes the greatest blessings are those that are withheld from us.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Hollow Crown
“Sometimes we put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. Myrddin”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Hollow Crown
“If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Hollow Crown
“It will be no greater miracle that brings us into another world to live forever with our dearest friends than that which has brought us into this one to live a lifetime with them.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Hollow Crown
“He who is not contented with what he has would not be contented with what he would like to have.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Hollow Crown
“Where there is reverence, there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear has a wider scope than reverence. We fear what we cannot see. We fear what we do see. We fear what we cannot know. We fear what we do know. We fear what may not happen. We fear what does happen. Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. If only because it finally puts an end to fear.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Hollow Crown
Jeff Wheeler
Born place: Neptune Township, New Jersey, The United States
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“Everyone is just making the choices they think will help them get by.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Never Fade
“I’m not interested in being polite. It’s false.”
― Libba Bray, quote from The Diviners
“Eh, I’ll be inside,” Vlad said with another soft scoff. “For some reason, I feel the urge to watch Hitman followed by Mr. and Mrs. Smith.”
― Jeaniene Frost, quote from This Side of the Grave
“The world is a chessboard, Madam, on which we play out our ploys and follies. You are the Queen, of course. Your moves are the strongest. For myself, I claim only to be a knight, advancing in a crooked progress. Do we move ourselves, do you think, or does a great gloved hand place on our squares”
― Catherine Fisher, quote from Incarceron
“It's hard to keep something a secret when it's written all over you body.”
― quote from Willow
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