Jennifer Lee Carrell Quotes & Sayings

An ancient mustiness padded the air, tinged with with an acrid scent-a trace of the war between paper and oxygen, played out in slow inexorable burn that would one day crumble this empire to dust. -page 62 — Jennifer Lee Carrell

A secret is a kind of promise ... It can also be a prison. — Jennifer Lee Carrell

But there were other great writers who had done all these things. What set Shakespeare apart ... even from other greats, was his generosity: his invitation, even insistence,for others to join him in the act of imagining ... His reticence [to add stage directions] made his works wonderfully elastic. It also made them demnding
sometimes maddeningly so
for directors and actors who had to figure out at every turn why these words and no others needed to be said right here and now. But Shakespeare was also demanding of his audiences: 'Yes,' you could almost hear him say, 'you are sitting in a fairly barren wooden theater. But dream yourselves to France. To a seacoast in Bohemia. To a magic-haunted island in a tempest-tossed sea. I dare you.' -Kate Stanley — Jennifer Lee Carrell

If you don't want the nickname, don't live up to it. — Jennifer Lee Carrell

That the good that we do might live on after us, while the evil lies interred with their bones. — Jennifer Lee Carrell

Right, then." He pointed across to a bank of phones against the wall. "If you want to check your voice mail, now's the time."
"Where's my phone?"
"Out of service."
"It was fine in the car."
"It's not fine now."
"What'd you do to it?"
"Put it out of our misery. I'm sorry, Kate. But every minute it's on, you're traceable to within the length of a football field, anywhere on the planet. — Jennifer Lee Carrell

Omniscience ... is an excellent quality in God, but suspect in everyone else. — Jennifer Lee Carrell

Laughter in the face of danger is a mark of courage. — Jennifer Lee Carrell

Stupidity makes you dangerous-to yourself and everyone around you. — Jennifer Lee Carrell