Top 35 Jeff Zentner Quotes
#1. Lydia shook her head. "This is my life. Getting yelled at in a Walmart parking lot on a Friday night by somebody doing a bad impression of PG-13 fart-joke-movie comedian.
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#2. Do you guys not get it? You can't hurt us anymore. You can't do anything to us. You can't take anything from us. You're nothing now.
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#3. Whatever this is, I like it. However reckless, however unwise this is, I don't care. I'd rather lose him this way than any other way.
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#4. Because we should do things we're afraid of. It makes it easier every time we do it.
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#5. We are a fallen species, spitting on the gift of salvation. Humanity is irredeemable.
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#6. I sometimes look at my bookshelf now and think about how someday I'm going to die without ever reading a lot of the books there. And one might be life-changingly good and I'll never know.
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#7. Nothing makes you feel more naked than someone identifying a desire you never knew you possessed.
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#8. Our memories of our loved ones are the pearl we form around the grain of grief that causes us pain.
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#9. You're never safe from yourself. Your own blood will poison you.
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#10. If you're going to live, you might as well do painful, brave, and beautiful things.
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#11. They went to the column, where they stole a few more quiet minutes together, listening to the river wear its way deeper into the earth, the way people wear grooves into each other's hearts.
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#12. For the most part, you don't hold the people you love in your heart because they rescued you from drowning or pulled you from a burning house. Mostly you hold them in your heart because they save you, in a million quiet and perfect ways, from being alone.
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#13. That wouldn't be a bad way to die...giving off light for millions of years after you're gone.
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#14. Love deserves monuments, and this is the only kind I know how to build.
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#15. Some fall in glorious ways. One green fields of battle as old warriors, surrounded by friends, fighting for their homes, fighting cruelty.
Some fall crawling in the dirt of Forrestville, Tennessee, in the dark, impossibly young and alone, for no good reason at all.
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#16. Writing is something that you can learn only by doing. To become a writer, you need an imagination, which you clearly have. You need to read books, which you clearly do. And you need to write, which you don't yet do, but should.
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#17. Funny how people move through this world leaving little pieces of their story with the people they meet, for them to carry. Makes you wonder what'd happen if all those people put their puzzle pieces together.
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#18. ...Please take care of yourselves, my young friends."
"We will," Lydia said. Or at least we'll try. The world sometimes has different ideas.
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#19. I've made books my life because they let me escape this world of cruelty and savagery.
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#20. The worst days spent with her were better than the best days spent without her.
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#21. People live quiet lives and that's okay. There's dignity in that, no matter what you may think.
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#22. There are books stacked high around them - the way opportunity and possibility are stacked around them.
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#23. You're telling someone in a wheelchair 'Walking is awesome. You should get up and walk.' It's not that easy.
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#24. We live in a series of moments and seasons and sense memories, strung end to end to form a sort of story.
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#26. Nothing stops when we're gone," Lydia said. "The seasons don't stop. This river doesn't stop. Vultures will keep flying in circles. The lives of the people we love won't stop. Time keeps unspooling. Stories keep getting written.
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#28. I want you to be careful in this world. My heart is wrapped up in you.
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#29. I watch the tip of my tie sway to and fro and wonder how humans got to a place where we said, "Whoa. Hold on. Before I can take you seriously, you need to hang a brightly colored strip of narrow pointy cloth around your neck.
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#30. The day may come when it takes some discernment to tell when someone loves you for you and when someone wants to stand near your fire.
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#31. Stick to the key of C, dude. No sharps or flats. More forgiving.
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#32. music was the only beautiful thing he owned
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#34. She got up , walked around the table, and gave him a lingering hug, running her fingers through the back of his hair. She'd been finding more excuses to hug him lately.
"What was that for?" Dill asked.
"Because you looked like your heart stepped on a Lego.
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