Sherry Jones Quotes & Sayings

I placed a bowl of herbs and ointments in the window of my bedroom, and let the scented breeze carry him away ... — Sherry Jones

With him, I became utterly myself as never before - and, to my astonishment, when I looked into his eyes like mirrors reflecting myself back to me, I admired the person I beheld there. — Sherry Jones

Running away has been futile. Wherever I went life would be the same. Resisting my chains only seem to tighten them. Yet all around me women found ways to slip those bonds, to discreetly flout the rules and then return to their so-called captivity before anyone noticed. — Sherry Jones

Al-Lah alone decides whether we live or die. The rest is vanity. — Sherry Jones

How many times in life have I been advised to "toe the line," to "tone it down," to stop "pushing the envelope"? As a journalist, I had to keep my opinions to myself for 30 years. I thought that, as an artist, I'd have the liberty to express my views. Now I'm told that doing so might hurt my readership.
I'm so idealistic, as I said elsewhere on FB today, that I think people ought to read my books because they're good. Period. — Sherry Jones

Trying to forge my own destiny had nearly destroyed me, but his love held the power to heal. — Sherry Jones

But I realized now that love was more than a feeling. Love was something you did for another person ... — Sherry Jones

Were every man to live according to his desires alone, the world would descend into chaos — Sherry Jones