Hylke De Jong Quotes & Sayings

You come to me three, four months ago, knowing it, and I might have said you're right. God meant me to not love anyone. Be a rock. Don't be touched by no one. But now I've been touched, in here." I tapped my chest. "There is no fear in love, but love casteth out fear. — James Buchanan

No, the safest thing is to become an island. To make your house a citadel against all the garbage and ugliness in the world. How else can you be sure of anything? — Nickolas Butler

Shane? Thank God, somebody sane. Well, sane-ish. — Rachel Caine

Neil once told me you had to become a monster so that you didn't become the victim of one instead. I don't care what anyone says. I believe him. — Shirley Marr

She dreamed that night of chickweed, which was a strange thing to dream about. Chickweed is a low, weedy little plant, not very distinguished. No one writes poetry comparing their lovers to chickweed (or if they do, the poems are rarely well received). — T. Kingfisher

I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves. — Adam Johnson

Twentieth pupil of the centuries knows its stuff and bird-changed this century like Jesus climbs the sky. — Guillaume Apollinaire

It's particularly important as parents in our conversations with our daughters and our sons to consider ideas intimate justice when we talk about and set them going on their early formative experience. — Peggy Orenstein