Johnny Rook Quotes

#1. The artist cannot hold back; it is impossible, because writing, or any other discipline of art, involves participation in suffering, in the ills and the occasional stabbing joys that come from being part of the human drama.

Madeleine L'Engle

#2. How far would you go to protect your family? I'm a father, I'm a son, I'm a grandson, and I'm a husband. If someone were to hurt the women in my life and the law didn't take care of it, what would I do? Pretty awful things.

Jason Momoa

#3. It was the cruelest irony that the man I despised, the man who tortured me from the front of the classroom three days a week, was the hottest fucking thing I'd ever seen.

Chanel Cleeton

#4. we are never our own.
we must change this fact.

- acceptance

Nayyirah Waheed

#5. I like to read fiction, and I particularly enjoy reading young adult fiction. But I also read children's books, adult books, current authors, and classics, but I like fiction the most.

James Howe

#6. Our minds are confused, but not our souls.

Sonia Choquette

#7. Just don't ever tell yourself that you didn't know ... That would be the worst crime of all.

John Boyne

#8. Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane

Honore De Balzac

#9. Devote yourself to learning something new about your field of mastery every day.

Robin Sharma

#10. I've got troubled thoughts and the self-esteem to match. What a catch.

Fall Out Boy

#11. I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver. I'm asking you as an American to see all of the freedoms that you enjoy and see how they are rooted in things that the country you belong to condoned or actively participated in the past.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#12. People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than by dagger or assault; they also know that whatever is well said is believed ...

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. You will eat from where you work with all your strength

Sunday Adelaja

#14. Family is a choice?"
"It is?"
His thumb pressed into my palm firmly. "It's your choice. Parents and siblings are your relations. Family takes care of one another and helps each other. When each side is working together, when everyone wants it, that makes the difference.

C.L.Stone

#15. How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?

William James

#16. Kit had never had any siblings, never had a mother, had only had Johnny. His father. His father who had died, and he didn't think had ever looked the way Ty looked now, as if the possibility of something happening to Livvy was enough to break him inside.

Cassandra Clare