Jennifer Varnadore > Jennifer's Quotes

“i think i love fire and ice by robert frost not because it deals with the end of all things, but because it deals with love. love can destroy all things when you have it, or it can destroy all things when you do not. it can either save you, or kill you. there are many kinds of love: the love with someone who fits you, and meets all of your needs. this can create a contentment that makes you happy and full. there is a more dangerous form of love. this love is kin to obsession, possession, and desire. you cannot breathe without their beings there. you cannot think, but of them. they plague you, and creep into everything you do until you despair of it. then one day you realize, not only did losing them create the most beautiful way of finding who they truly were, but it created you as you are. they made you something greater than you were. love is sickness, but it is the kind of sickness that makes life worth living. you realize that not only can you now live with them, but you can live without them, and you can stand beside them, while letting them have their freedom. The deep desire to hold them higher sits so deep in your soul that you would give your life to have them be no one other than the person you have come to see them as. faults and all, because no they aren't perfect, but who should be?”
― Jennifer Varnadore

“I know that there will always be someone who won't get the stories, or who won't like them. You cannot please everyone, unfortunately. It won't stop me from writing. Nothing can do that, because it has always been my passion.

It's like the stories live inside of me, and they project onto the page through my typing and my pencil. I can see them play like movies on a screen, and to me, they are beautiful.”
― Jennifer Varnadore

“You are like nobody since I love you.”
― pablo neruda

“Muses had a way of killing those whom they inspired.”
― Katherine Neville, The Eight

“You are stronger than you know.”
― Lori Newman

“In life there are good and bad situations. But when you are down in the valley looking up at the mountain, sometimes you realize that you can see the stars a little clearer. You realize what's truly important and you know exactly what must be done to keep it just like it is.”
― Jennifer Varnadore

“The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.”
― Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
― Maya Angelou

“They were going to expel me. Mom convinced them not to... and got them to apologize," Fern said, almost embarrassed.
Really?" Eddie said. "See, Sammy, you don't mess with the Commander, do you?" Eddie playfully hit his younger brother in the stomach with the back of his hand.
When the Commander says jump...," Sam started.
We say, 'yes ma'am, how high?'" Eddie ended with a forehead salute.”
― Jennifer Anne Kogler

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.”
― Herman Melville

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
― James Baldwin

“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
― Jerome K. Jerome

“Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.”
― George Sand, Letters of George Sand

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”
― Adlai E. Stevenson

“Summer night--
even the stars
are whispering to each other.”
― Kobayashi Issa

“Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa

“But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.”
― Anne Bronte

“When the world is at your back, and your heart is at your feet...the best way to go on is to just "be".”
― Jennifer Varnadore

“I don't want a man who stands in front of me, because all I see is his back. I don't want a man to stand behind me, because I'd have to dwell on the past just to see his face. I want a man that stands beside me. An equal that holds my hand through whatever mountains and oceans we may cross. Someone who I can trust. I just want your love.”
― Jennifer Varnadore

“Sometimes the hardest story to tell is your own”
― Jennifer Varnadore

“Love is seeing someone for who they are, and for all the things that they don't know they can be. Sometimes it's neither seeing things as good or bad, but seeing them as aspects that create the being. If you cannot love someone for all of the things that create their personality, then you'll find it hard to love them at all. I can be everything or nothing, but I cannot love without you.”
― Jennifer Varnadore

“I admire someone who in the literal sense can say, 'If it is broken, I can fix it. If it's lost I can find it. IF you fall, I can catch you.' because if you can say it in the literal sense, you can mean it in the figurative sense. The littlest things can change the world. A smile can save someone's life, and a hand freely given when you have nothing to give other than yourself, can mean the world to someone else”
― Jennifer Varnadore

“If you do not like what someone says, stand up and challenge them by saying what you feel. Be the change that you want to see in the world around you.”
― Jennifer Varnadore

“When you don't think you can feel is when you learn you can smile until it hurts, and love until you're too scared to say it, because you need someone who loves you enough to look you in the eyes and say, 'You're beautiful the way you are It'll be ok. You're worth something.' because sometimes you forget. It's easier to believe when they say it. If you believe, it means that they matter to you. You want to bare your soul to them. Give them everything it takes to let you fall, and pray to God that they are there to catch you.”
― Jennifer Varnadore

“It's that moment when you know you're falling and the ground is there beneath you, and it hits you that you're going to hit the ground, and then suddenly you stop, and you look up and they are there looking at you, surprised that they did it too. They caught you, and you're not falling anymore. You're safe. Yeah...being with you is like that.”
― Jennifer Varnadore