“Hope is a precious thing, isn’t it,” she says. “And yet, we don’t really appreciate it until it’s gone.”
― Amy Ewing, quote from The Jewel
“This is how The Jewel operates. Status is our sole occupation. Gossip is our currency.”
― Amy Ewing, quote from The Jewel
“It would be easier to forget you," he says to me, "and these past few weeks we've had together. It would be easier if I could hate you. But the sad truth is, I will more than likely love you for the rest of my life.”
― Amy Ewing, quote from The Jewel
“Oh, I do like you. You have such an interesting balance of obedience and contempt.”
― Amy Ewing, quote from The Jewel
“I love sunrises, even more than sunsets. There's something so exciting about the worlds coming to life in a thousand colors.”
― Amy Ewing, quote from The Jewel
“It is frighteningly bizarre to hear myself described this way; a set of statistics, a musical instrument, and nothing more.”
― Amy Ewing, quote from The Jewel
“I think the last dinner was preferable to this one. At least Raven was there. And Lucien.”
― Amy Ewing, quote from The Jewel
“What is life without a bit of excitement.”
― Amy Ewing, quote from The Jewel
“My mother used to say that a good meal could ease a troubled heart.”
― Amy Ewing, quote from The Jewel
“I feel myself dissolve into a thousand molecules, amazed at how three small words can completely alter my state of being.”
― Amy Ewing, quote from The Jewel
“Title does not protect you from everything.”
― Amy Ewing, quote from The Jewel
“Doctors are idiots," ...."It's the surrogate that counts.”
― Amy Ewing, quote from The Jewel
“Zumindest werde ich unter demselben Himmel sein, wohin auch immer es mich verschlägt. Hazel und ich werden wenigstens auf dieselben Sterne schauen.”
― Amy Ewing, quote from The Jewel
“Ik mag jou wel, met je interessante balans tussen gehoorzaamheid en minachting. - Hertogin”
― Amy Ewing, quote from The Jewel
“O, is de jacht op de surrogaten weer geopend?... Pas maar op, nieuw meisje. Dit jaar wordt ongetwijfeld gevaarlijk nu het om de hand van de lieve, kleine Exetor gaat. - Garnet”
― Amy Ewing, quote from The Jewel
“Wíj maken hun kinderen. Wíj hebben de macht. - De leeuwin”
― Amy Ewing, quote from The Jewel
“Je hebt me teleurgesteld, Violet. - Hertogin”
― Amy Ewing, quote from The Jewel
“I press my face against the wrought-iron bars on my window - they are arched and curl into the shape of roses, as i by making a pretty pattern, they can pretend they're something they're not.”
― Amy Ewing, quote from The Jewel
“I love sunrises, even more than sunsets. There's something so exciting about the world coming to life in a thousand colors. It's hopeful.”
― Amy Ewing, quote from The Jewel
“This is what I'm wearing. This is my favorite thing to wear, and since it's the last time I'll ever get to choose my own outfit, I'm choosing this, because I love it and it's mine. I don't care what I look like.”
― Amy Ewing, quote from The Jewel
“Oh, love is handsome, love is charming
Love is beauty while it's new
But love grows old and love grows colder
And fades away like morning dew.”
― Amy Ewing, quote from The Jewel
“Maybe she knew it, and that's why she wasn't frightened at the end. "This is how it begins," she said. I wonder if she saw death as just another way to freedom.”
― Amy Ewing, quote from The Jewel
“Something had to be done. No one deserves this life. No one deserves to have their choices taken away.”
― Amy Ewing, quote from The Jewel
“I hate him. But I hate myself more, for being idiotic enough to believe that I could have that sort of happiness.”
― Amy Ewing, quote from The Jewel
“Knowing that it would happen and experiencing it are two entirely different things.”
― Amy Ewing, quote from The Jewel
“Ash, do you honestly think that what they've made you do affects who you are? You are a good person, and don't ever let anyone make you feel differently.”
― Amy Ewing, quote from The Jewel
“Once a small crack reveals itself, suddenly a hundred others appear. And then the walls that have been so carefully constructed begin to crumble.”
― Amy Ewing, quote from The Jewel
“Hoffnung ist ein kostbares Gut, nicht wahr? [...] Und doch wissen wir sie erst zu schätzen, wenn sie fort ist.”
― Amy Ewing, quote from The Jewel
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“It's not like they can take anything from me,' he says later, back with his homeboys in Juvenile Hall. 'Ain't got nothing to give. Nothin' but time, that is. And I been doin' time my whole life, one way or the other.”
― Edward Humes, quote from No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court
“That's the thing about distance: It either gives you time to move on form someone, or it makes you realize just how much you need them.”
― Estelle Maskame, quote from Did I Mention I Need You? (Did I Mention I Love You
“Ei, tämä ei ollut eskatologinen, profeettojen jo kauan sitten ennustama traaginen finaali, jumalallisen näytelmän viimeinen näytös. Ei, tämä oli pikemminkin pyöräilyakrobaattinen sirkusfinaali, taikurimainen hupsis-loppu, jota säesti kaikkien edistyksen henkien kättentaputus. Melkein kaikki uskoivat siihen hetkeäkään epäröimättä. Tyrmistyneet ja vastalauseita huutavat karjuttiin heti paikalla mataliksi. Miksi he eivät ymmärtäneet, että tämä oli yksinkertaisesti ennen kuulumaton tilaisuus, äärimmäisen edistyksellinen maailmanloppu, vapaamielinen päätös, ajan huipulla oleva, korkeinta viisautta syvästi kunnioitava ja suojeleva tapahtuma? Sitä tulkittiin haltiokkaasti, sitä kuvattiin irti reväistyille muistikirjan lehdille, selitettiin, että se oli kumoamaton; vastustajille ja epäilijöille jaettiin korvapuusteja. Kuvalehdissä ilmestyi kokosivun piirroksia, kuvitelmia katastrofista, vaikuttavia näyttämösovituksia. Näimme väkirikkaita kaupunkeja yöllisen pakokauhun vallassa, valomerkkejä ja valoilmiöitä kipunoivan taivaan alla. Etäisen meteorin hämmästyttävät vaikutukset olivat jo kaikkien nähtävissä. Pyrstötähti, jonka vertauskuvallinen kärki tähtäsi heltiämättä maapalloa, leijali liikkumattomana taivaalla ja lähestyi maata niin ja niin monen kilometrin nopeudella sekunnissa. Lakit ja hatut lentelivät ilmaan kuin sirkusilveilyssä, hiukset nousivat pystyyn, sateenvarjot aukenivat itsestään ja kaljut paljastuivat lentoon lehahtavien peruukkien alta - ja yllä oli musta, jättimäinen taivas, jonka laella välkkyi kakkien tähtien yhtäaikainen hälytys.”
― Bruno Schulz, quote from The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories
“But as the sun rose I crested the mountain of my self-pity and remembered I was always going to die at the end of this life anyway. What did it really matter if I spent it like this—caring for this boy—as opposed to some other way? I would always be earthbound; he hadn’t robbed me of my ability to fly or to live forever. I appreciated nuns now, not the conscripted kind, but modern women who chose it. If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have? These exotic revelations bubbled up involuntarily and I began to understand that the sleeplessness and vigilance and constant feedings were a form of brainwashing, a process by which my old self was being molded, slowly but with a steady force, into a new shape: a mother. It hurt. I tried to be conscious while it happened, like watching my own surgery. I hoped to retain a tiny corner of the old me, just enough to warn other women with. But I knew this was unlikely; when the process was complete I wouldn’t have anything left to complain with, it wouldn’t hurt anymore, I wouldn’t remember.”
― Miranda July, quote from The First Bad Man
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