Jeffrey Overstreet Quotes & Sayings

You don't inspire people by telling them they're wrong. You need to show them something extraordinary so they long to be part of it. — Jeffrey Overstreet

What kind of house will these dreamers become? What will it be like to live among people who don't fidget in fear of what's around the next bend? What kind of melodies will they compose?

He guessed that they would make strange company. Mysterious. Aggressively curious. Scary. Ignoring urgent concerns, distracted by insects and clouds and children. Each would live with one foot planted in another world. No more worry about their reputation. No more sugarcoated persuasion. No more flourishes designed to solicit a shower of coins. Only riddles and play and prophecy. — Jeffrey Overstreet

And for the Keeper, waves splashed, trees swayed, stones protected knowledge, and wind waited for orders. — Jeffrey Overstreet

If there's no feast for this appetite
No reason in nursery rhymes
Why can't I shake this great and glorious lie?
And if there's no dawn beyond this dark
No secret stair to climb
Where did I learn the song that shakes the sky? — Jeffrey Overstreet

Fall as deep as I fell and you'll find out what's at the bottom. It changes you. — Jeffrey Overstreet

Sometimes distortions can speak the truth. They confirm for me what is real by troubling me with something false. — Jeffrey Overstreet

Isn't it strange how most of us reach an age where we just fold up our imaginations and stuff them in our closets? I think I've learned more about you from these impossible dreams than from anything else you've said. — Jeffrey Overstreet

If more people had the courage to discover their potential, we might find that such talents are not so rare — Jeffrey Overstreet

The greatest threat to what is best is something persuasively good. — Jeffrey Overstreet

Krawg's vulturebeak nose twitched in the middle of the few undisciplined whiskers that grew where a mustache did not. — Jeffrey Overstreet

When Mother and I learned that Father was dying, Father asked me to sing for him," she said. "Mother insisted that I only sing songs from their youthful days together. She wanted me to take her mind off Father's pain, But when she stepped away, Father asked me to sing songs about pain. About loss. About the world without him. When I played those songs, he would cry. It was the only way he could cry. And now it's the only way I know to cry."

"We need you to lead us in crying, Lesyl, or we'll drown in unshed tears." [King Cal-Raven replied] — Jeffrey Overstreet