J.H. Lee Quotes

The war had made some into libertines and some into serious, sober men.

In a war, you wield every weapon you have, including words. Especially words.

They turned their desks into a trigonometric war room, poring over equations scrawling ideas on blackboards, evaluating their work, erasing it, starting over.

I'll always be the yearning poet bleeding ink chasing stars drunk on dreams.

She's just a girl who dreams too deeply for this world.

The streets of America may not have been paved with gold, but they were cobbled in middle-class dreams.

O world, that's you!You are but a widened place in the riverWhere Life looks down and we rejoice for herMirrored in us, and so we dreamAnd turn away

The feeling of being both trapped and free at the same time is the most mind twisting feeling of all.

We can't have freedom unless we have freedom. And that means freedom to speak our minds.

What good's a black face if it means I'm just someone else's property? Why give me these arms and legs just to carry someone else's load, not my own?

Nevermore shall men make slaves of others! Not in Asgard--not on Earth--not any place where the hammer of Thor can be swung--or where men of good faith hold freedom dear!

If we followed our feelings all the time we´d be like cats chasin´ their tails.

It’s a terrible person who listens to what we say rather than what we mean

Reacher prowled the hallway, his gun stiff-armed way out in front of him, his torso jerking violently left and right from the hips, like a crazy disco dance. The house-storming shuffle.

Start with putting three of your friends to jail. You definitely know what for, and people will believe you

Her stories were made of badass women teasing monsters and running wild with dragons.

Don't compare her to sunshine and roses when she's clearly orchids and moonlight.

There is a sneakiness about girls that they keep hid under sweetness and pouting and crying.

For twelve school years, every morning, she had turned left out the front door to get to work. Now the taxi turned right, spiriting her off in the opposite direction.

I just wonder… Isn’t it better to start as a monster and become a hero? Isn’t that what creates belief? The idea that someone can change?

She burns like the sunBeautiful when she comes undoneNo restraintsPure passion flowing through her veinsMadness refusing to be tamed.

My soulmust reachinto the cloudsand touch the beauty of madness.

Her skin smelled like the twilight moon and her eyes looked primal, like a hungry animal. She was darkness – dangerous, beautiful darkness.

There is a beastwithin my heart.She plays immaculately with the beauty in my soul.

It's her black wings that make her beautiful.

The art of happy-making begins when we find our happiness within instead of without.

In God, happiness and purposeful work are a package deal.

She has one hell of a dark soul, but damn, it’s so full of light!

While they all ink their skin, I crave something permanent within.Bare your soulOpen your heartTattoo your love within.

I swear that girl was born with a pen in her hand, the moon in her hair, and stars in her soul.

It's easy to hide behind a smile, that's why it is so important to search instead inside the eyes.

I know a beautiful soul when I feel one. The empath in me honors the authentic in you.

She has wings the color of wild and a soul the color of art.

Don't need a magic carpet to soar or wings to fly. I simply close my eyes and place my soul against the sky.

I am a wildflower in your perfect bed of roses.

Wildflowers can't be controlled, and neither can the girl with a soul boundless as the sky, and a spirit as free and wild as the ocean.

She was a restless soul. Born with black wings and a gypsy heart.

You put butterflies back into my soul and painted their wings with passion and poetry.

I'm a tangled mess of wild.

I have a dark soul, that doesn't mean I don't love the sun, rainbows and things that emphasize the light.

Comprehension is the ability to follow an explanation.Understanding is the ability to be able to lead if needed.

We go from most doubted to most respected with the right outlook and attitude to life.

While you're worrying about becoming famous, there is someone out there putting in work and not wasting a second of their time. Which person will you be?

The merging of characteristics between different species creates a very powerful language, one that I love to explore through my art, enabling me to tap into the unconscious.

My father said that artists see the world differently than normal people. I see a tree where you mights see a collection of lines, shapes, and shadows.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read

I always know what to expect of the things of Mother Earth. Sometimes they are cruel, but it is hard, clean cruelty. They don’t torture you with their own weakness.

Poetry without truth, is like a rose without thorns.Still pretty, But sometime the real beauty comes from the things that can make us bleed.

I'm probably the only person in the world that feels physical pain as a reaction to joy.

They seemed so united that I loved them as one person." Lee wrote of his son and daughter-in-law on his daughter-in-law's death.