J.M. Green Quotes

Sometimes she is struck by how much she goes through life almost unconsciously. She is being swept along. She is a pale ghost.

Here have I come to die, ' he said, 'and where else could I ask to die but in your arms?

Mia, ' she whispered. I turned around. 'What?' I whispered back.She smiled at me a little. 'LEEERRROOOY JEEENNKKIINNNSS!' she shouted, then spun around and ran toward the Z's in the lighting section.

Which got me to wondering whether it’s possible to learn how to be a person in a world where all the people are dead.

We made mistakes trying to correct mistakes. Isn't that how we knew we were parents?

She personified her name in everything she did. Even when we would row, her words were deftly chosen and spoken rather like an intricate dance. And I so loved to dance with her.

And we cannot keep our balance. Myth gives way to Reason. Revelation to Orthodoxy. We must dance or go mad.

Love is always a miracle, everywhere, every time. But for us, it's a little different. I don't want to say it's more miraculous, ...It is though.

Love is always a miracle, everywhere, every time. But for us, it's a little different.

Love is always a miracle, everywhere, every time. But for us, it's a little different. I don't want to say it's more miraculous...Our miracle is different because people say it's impossible.

...[I]t is pain to think of innocence in ruin.

You're not really in control, not with this falling-for-people stuff. You don't plan who you're going to fall in love with. It's all random - chance accidents of time and place.

I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies - Q

Most parents don't know really their children.

It's like she thinks my job is to please her, and that should be my dearest wish, and when I don't please her - I get shut out.

The rights of man are poor things beside the eyes of hungry children. Their hurts are keener than the soreness of injustice.

What's that?""The laundry basket?""No, next to it.""I don't see anything next to it.""It's my last shred of dignity. It's very small.

It’s hard as hell to hold on to your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes

Either write something worth reading, or do something worth writing.

I always like routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring.

As if we'd fall for an obvious trap like that, " said Happy. "We're not going to fall for an obvious trap like that, are we? Oh shit, we are. I want to go home.

A nonhot boy stares at you and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a hot boy...well.

Failure is not the end of the road, its a stepping stone to do better!

Ain’t nothing scarier than someone with nothing.

Thank you for letting me hijack your wish', I said.'Thank you for wearing that dress which is like whoa, " he said.

It is not the talking that counts between friends it is the never needing to say what counts.

Shared laughter is like throwing open the shutters in a gloomy room and letting in fresh air and sunshine.

A wife encourages her husband's egoism in order to exercise her own.

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Thus I steer my bark and sail On even keel with gentle gale.

We all tend to think of ourselves as the last unsinning inhabitants of whatever place we live in. We don't usually recognize ourselves as participants in its destruction.

Refuse to blame yourself for not being 'good enough

the world wasn't made for us, we were made for the world

You gave me a forever within the numbered days and I'm grateful.

There is only one thing in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and that's having a kid who bites it from cancer.

My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They’re made of me as surely as my brain and my heart are made of me. It is a civil war with a predetermined winner

But it's not a cancer book, because cancer books suck.

You need an attitude of service. You're not just serving yourself. You help others to grow up and you grow with them.

He who refuses to stoop, who cannot be bribed by the promise of success or the fear of failure - who walks the highway of the right, and in disaster stands erect, is the only victor.

To all the other dreamers out there, don't ever stop or let the world's negativity disenchant you or your spirit. If you surround yourself with love and the right people, anything is possible.

I'm glad you asked that question, because of any musical situation I've been in, the communication feels great here with Russell. He really pays close attention to what I'm doing because he cares.

The Christmas story has such power and such appeal every year. There are other stories we get tired of. You think of your favorite movie you don't want to watch it 15 times.

Somehow we just don't make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter.

Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do.

I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer.

Music definitely gave me a focus. I was an artist without an outlet. Let's just say if I was not famous, I could have been infamous. I could've had my own episode of 'American Gangster.'

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments there are consequences.

Though pleas'd to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way.

You have to have patience to be a legislator.

Fling but a stone, the giant dies.