Jambs Quotes & Sayings

I am not the sharpest knife in the knife-thing. — Jimmy Dore

The door to Blay's room opened wide without a knock, a hello, a hey-are-you-decent.
Qhuinn stood in between the jambs, breathing hard, like he'd run down the hall of statues.
Sh**, had Layla lost the pregnancy after all?
Those mismatched eyes searched around. "You by yourself?"
Why the hell would - Oh, Saxton. Right. "Yes - "
The male took three strides forward, reached up ... and kissed the ever-loving crap out of Blay.
The kiss was the kind that you remembered all your life, the connection forged with such totality that everything from the feel of the body against your own, to the warm slid of another's lips on yours, to the power as well as the control, was etched into your mind ... — J.R. Ward

A shiny ring isn't romantic to me. I think thought and love into what you do for the person you're in love with - that's romance. — Sasha Grey

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I'm not extremely outgoing, but I'm average, I think. When people meet me they'll say, 'Oh you're not that shy ... ' I never said I was! I see where they're coming from because my biggest single was about being shy at a party - I get it. But it's not 100% accurate. — Alessia Cara

Any film is at least better than real life. — Quentin Crisp

For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome. — Cai Guo-Qiang

I'm bookbrained-the act of book obsession common in writers. Not to be confused with bookbrains, a delicacy for zombies when eating the former. — Zara Steen

Unscrew the locks from the doors !
Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs ! — Walt Whitman

And what does it matter where my journey began, as long as I end it with you? — Carrie Anne Noble

Glory is a shroud that posterity often tears from the shoulders of those who wore it when living. — Pierre-Jean De Beranger

He recognized that he was feeling something he head never experienced before: the desire to live in one place forever. — Paulo Coelho

Life is pitifully mediocre without passion. Never let anyone take your passion away from you. — Keely Brooke Keith

He was a man who fucked in silence. And when he climaxed, long, hard, endlessly, inside her tight body, he heard his voice in the darkness. Calling her name. — Anne Stuart

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained. — Lyman Abbott

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers, so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. — Cyril Connolly

Various books revolutionised what I think about novels and showed me that they're not strict, formulaic things. 'Coming Through Slaughter' by Michael Ondaatje was one of them. — Sarah Hall