Top 53 Jessa Quotes
#1. You have no idea what I would do to keep you safe, Jessa. No idea.
Jaymin Eve
#2. My dragon decided that no one hurts his Jessa."
Eve, Jaymin (2015-01-29). Dragon Marked: Supernatural Prison #1 (p. 41). . Kindle Edition.
Jaymin Eve
#4. What was it like out there? Kind of describe it to us, Jessa says, beaming at them and then at me. Trini beams at her and there's a lot of beaming happening.
Melina Marchetta
#5. He had our Jessa, and blood would rain across the world until we got her back.
Jaymin Eve
#6. American culture never necessarily made sense to me, but they should warn you: leaving comes with a huge sense of alienation that never goes away.
Jessa Crispin
#7. I would have given it up
all of it up
to be married to you for a day. A day that would never have come. You are a reminder
a reminder of everything I am losting. The Life I will not have.
Cassandra Clare
#8. I don't think you can write an experience as you're having it without being an idiot.
Jessa Crispin
#9. I have yet to get sued. My father thinks I should get liability insurance.
Jessa Crispin
#10. People aren't truly evolving, they're just mastering new and cyber-sanctioned ways to get what they want.
Jessa Callaver
#11. Before the advent of artificial light, we had 13, 14 hours in bed every night ... and so what we experience now is about a 40% contraction of how we used to sleep, and I for one am glad of that - I don't want to spend 13 hours in bed.
Jessa Gamble
#12. There's this resistance to actually talking to people who are smarter than you about things and I don't know why that is.
Jessa Crispin
#13. I thought of the beautiful blonde as I'd seen her that single time - riding around on her bike, licking a red popsicle - she
Jessa Kane
#14. Feminism now seems to be defined as success is defined: as being as good at capitalism as men are. I feel very estranged from it.
Jessa Crispin
#15. She glanced over at Zachariah, who was busy patting Church. The cat had climbed up onto the champagne table and was gleefully knocking over glasses. Her look was one of exasperation and fondness mixed together.
Cassandra Clare
#16. I don't behave the way people necessarily want me to, but I tried behaving that other way for a short period of time and it didn't take.
Jessa Crispin
#17. I like European and South American literature, but mostly I read nonfiction.
Jessa Crispin
#18. I don't tell clients what to do. I don't even really tell them what the future is.
Jessa Crispin
#19. It is always easier to find your sense of value by demeaning another's value. It is easier to define yourself as 'not that,' rather than do an actual accounting of your own qualities and put them on the scale.
Jessa Crispin
#20. Nora Barnacle is not a very interesting person." So said Richard Ellmann, author of the definitive James Joyce biography, to Brenda Maddox, author of the only Nora Barnacle biography, who quoted him to me.
Jessa Crispin
#21. Why would you have a work day that does not respond to shorter or longer day length? There's something that we lose, taking our schedules away from that locally relevant rhythm.
Jessa Gamble
#22. A wild appreciation of men and women ... who passionately and fearlessly and recklessly redefine romance ... The passionate creatures who refuse to play it safe and settle down now have an intelligent, like-minded advocate.
Jessa Crispin
#23. I think American literature is in a tedious place, horrible place. I can't even engage with it.
Jessa Crispin
#24. Women still get angry at me. I mean, men go after me sometimes, but most of the bad responses come from women.
Jessa Crispin
#26. Talk to people who know more than you. I feel like we're in this stupid sea of opinion, like "My opinion is valid because it's mine and I have it."
Jessa Crispin
#27. Go to a place and just send out emails. That's my entire life. I go to countries and I ask, "Who would I know who lives here?" Not even do I know, but who exists and is on the planet.
Jessa Crispin
#28. But here's a little secret: man cannot live on rationality alone.
Jessa Crispin
#29. Most of what I do is for creative people - writers and painters and photographers - trying to work through creative problems.
Jessa Crispin
#30. We can't feel the rotation of the planet, but in some ways we can because our bodily systems are reacting to it and have it inherent in them. To me, that's such a powerful thought.
Jessa Gamble
#31. I don't think that I can be settled and I don't think that I would ever want to be.
Jessa Crispin
#32. Once you leave, you're no longer of that country, but you are never actually of the country that you go to, and if you go back, you're not anywhere. You never belong to anything.
Jessa Crispin
#34. Music makes promises to the heart that no
mere song could ever fulfill.
Jessa Callaver
#35. My belief that the publishing industry is run by prigs and cowards dates back to many years before I even had the idea for the book.
Jessa Crispin
#36. I knew my motivations for going to each place and what I was looking for. If I don't do that then I generally don't write about my travels.
Jessa Crispin
#37. This is the way dissent is handled in feminist realms: a contrary opinion or argument is actually an attack. This stems from the belief that your truth is the only truth, that your sense of trauma and oppression does not need to be examined or questioned. In
Jessa Crispin
#38. I'm someone who needs more sleep than average, and I'm quite jealous of people who need only five or six hours and they're good to go.
Jessa Gamble
#39. The culture of the U.S. military is such that human enhancement is accepted as a goal, taking people beyond the norm. There are so many resources going into that kind of research.
Jessa Gamble
#40. I mean, many times your creative problem is accidentally your personal problem, but it's not quite the same.
Jessa Crispin
#41. So you are dying for love, then, Will said finally, his voice sounding constricted to his own ears.
'Dying a little faster for love. And there are worse things to die for.
Cassandra Clare
#43. Men exist on the planet. We have to deal with them at some point.
Jessa Crispin
#44. Being unconscious is the ultimate disability.
Jessa Gamble
#45. I wish other people would write about loneliness more. It's hard to remember that it's not personal. We live in a world that is built to make people lonely ... It's difficult to remember that your loneliness is not really about you and everyone has it.
Jessa Crispin
#46. I have a really good life and I really like it.
Jessa Crispin
#47. I was twenty-one when I was hired by Planned Parenthood. It was my first work experience outside of either temping or working for my father at his store.
Jessa Crispin
#49. I would slay myself on the altar of boredom if given the chance.
Jessa Crispin
#50. You don't have to go to New York and you don't have to go to LA or London. Go somewhere cheap. Go somewhere with free art museums and then just go to art museums.
Jessa Crispin
#51. I understand maybe some people are more impressionable than my hard, cynical self, but maybe they need to figure out how to be less of that.
Jessa Crispin
#52. What people who are doing shift work or managing shift workers or deciding to put people on shift schedules to begin with should realize that we're not robots.
Jessa Gamble
#53. Just send the emails and talk to people. Spend all your money on nail polish and opera tickets.
Jessa Crispin
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