Jayneen Thornton Quotes

#1. All mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course.

Tom Stoppard

#2. I guess I just wanted reassurance. "Mamaw, does God love us?" She hung her head, gave me a hug, and began to cry.

J.D. Vance

#3. When God puts us in a holy holding pattern, it can feel like forever, but God doesn't hold us back to make us suffer. He does it to help us trust Him. He sees what lies ahead and knows what we need to be ready for it.

Lee W. Merrill

#4. I have never seen such a perfectly formed animal. Beautiful and graceful like a gazelle, he burned hot and wild with the deserts of Egypt in his soul.

Lynn Andrews

#5. I'm in another country, the one called home. I am alive. I am a precious jewel. I am a drop of blood. I am Ruby Lennox.

Kate Atkinson

#6. I could not discuss what had happened to me with anyone, I could not even admit it to myself; and, while I never thought about it, it remained, nevertheless, at the bottom of my mind, as still and as awful as a decomposing corpse. And it changed, it thickened, it soured the atmosphere of my mind.

James Baldwin

#7. That's what I do, and I do it well. It's nothing to do with luck!

E.L. James

#8. But sometimes you lose. Nothing you can do but admit it.
-Eli

Sarah Dessen

#9. I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don't make enough money publishing to live on, to support themselves - people like Tobias Wolff, Anne Beattie, Amy Hempel, Stuart Dybek; a lot of short story writers, for one thing.

Chad Harbach

#10. It's been a horrifying academic secret for decades that the children who walk away with the highest formal honors, the valedictorians and National Merit Scholars, have a horrendous performance record in later life.

John Taylor Gatto