Jacqueline Smith Quotes & Sayings

Showmen's Rest was truly something to behold. Throughout the entire yard, statues and carvings of elephants, clowns, and tight-rope walkers danced on the gray and white surfaces of tombstones and grave-markers. For the first time, Michael got the feeling that the men and women who'd been buried there were probably really happy with their final resting place. It was a touching tribute, one that honored their passion in life and that had been constructed out of love and respect. — Jacqueline E. Smith

Michael had always thought that seeing ghosts was stressful. Those wandering spirits were nothing compared to whatever women had going through their heads at all odd hours of the day. — Jacqueline E. Smith

Someone always dies. Someone is always left behind. — Jacqueline E. Smith

God, everything is wasted on the living. — Jacqueline E. Smith

For some reason, the smell brings tears to my eyes. I almost feel like I'm saying goodbye to him, which is ridiculous because I'm seeing him again in just a few hours. It's like saying goodbye to a dream that was never mine in the first place. Love is the worst. — Jacqueline E. Smith

The fact that the world today is what it is suggests, to say the least, that this concept is far from being cherished universally. The reasons for its unpopularity are twofold. First, what is required for this concept to be put into effect is a margin of democracy. This is precisely what 86 percent of the globe lacks. Second, the common sense that tells a victim that his only gain in turning the other cheek and not responding in kind yields, at best, a moral victory, i.e., quite immaterial. The natural reluctance to expose yet another part of your body to a blow is justified by a suspicion that this sort of conduct only agitates and enhances Evil; that moral victory can be mistaken by the adversary for his impunity. — Joseph Brodsky

It's so easy to be around people when everything is ... well ... easy. But the people who've been with you through thick and thin, who've seen you at your absolute worst, and who still want to hang out with you at the end of the day?
If that isn't family, I don't know what is. — Jacqueline E. Smith

There's something about New York. I can't explain it. It's less of a place and more of an experience. To see it and to hear it is all to feel it. It's the feeling of adventure and being away from home and being totally free. The city lives and breathes and thrives and its energy stays with you long after you leave it. — Jacqueline E. Smith

There are a lot of decisions to make, creatively. Now, with digital, you can really be the author of your own work. From the beginning to the end of the process, you control everything. — Gregory Heisler

Century and after century, headstones and grave markers were crafted, marble shrines to lost life and to bodies that could neither see nor touch nor think nor feel, bodies that were respected and appreciated more after death than some ever could have hoped to be in life. — Jacqueline E. Smith

Like I said, it's weird being in love with your best friend.
It'seven weirder when the rest of the world is in love with him, too. — Jacqueline E. Smith

Reinventing beats inventing nearly every time. — Stewart Brand

People tend to think that death is absolute, the one thing we can all be certain about, but that's not the case. Death is complex. It's powerful and timeless. The truth is, when it comes to death, nothing is impossible. — Jacqueline E. Smith

I've been fucked up the ass by Fate. What do you think you can do to me with your little, fucking penis? — B.G. Harlen

If you were a real professional, you'd build a bridge and get over it. — Jacqueline E. Smith

I know they say that a picture's worth a thousand words, but it's amazing how often those words tell the wrong story. — Jacqueline E. Smith

Music is powerful. It sets the mind and body and soul free in a way that I've need fully been able to understand. Maybe because it's not meant to be understood. It's simply meant to be experienced. — Jacqueline E. Smith

Michael had learned the hard way that nothing good came from interfering in the affairs of the afterlife. — Jacqueline E. Smith

They'd never scared him, really. When he was younger, he hadn't known that there was anything different about them. By the time he was old enough to figure out that no one else could see them, he was also old enough to realize that being dead didn't turn people into monsters. It just meant that most of them were lonely. — Jacqueline E. Smith

Love was more than just a fleeting desire, or a brief glimpse into a fairy tale, or a flash of playful flirtation in her beautiful hazel eyes. It was more than infatuation with a person's best qualities, or reluctant acceptance of their less appealing traits. Real love meant loving the whole person, in every form, in every state, in every way. It was what transformed the ordinary monotony of everyday life into extraordinary moments of warmth and compassion and joy. — Jacqueline E. Smith

There is no such thing as perfect. But even if there was, I would pick you over perfection any day. — Jacqueline E. Smith

I'd learned from my mother that when someone gives you a subjective compliment - meaning one that can't be disproven and is based on opinion - but that you find to be completely false, rather than argue, it's much better to just say thank you, or I appreciate that and strive to be that compliment. Fools fight compliments, she'd said, and sometimes other people see you better than you can see yourself. — Penny Reid