21 Quotes by Jake Vander Ark

Someday they would discover that the stars were not sacred, but made from the same material as their bodies. They would learn it was the stars that created their worlds, that worlds created their minds, that minds created tools, and tools could create stars. Growing, sprawling, thriving until they too became masters of their own understanding, chasing enlightenment with the fervor of having nothing to lose, launching from their homelands like fireworks with glorious yellow tails.

You know that moment when you hug somebody, when your heart feels warm and high in your chest and tingly? When you feel just for a second like a baby in a womb... that nothing matters? That's how I want you to feel. That's what a girlfriend should do, I think.

But in the end, black can never be white, one plus one must always equal two, and Mara Lynn was a normal little girl.

sometimes life isn’t worth the pain. i’m going for a swim. goodbye, my love.

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I think the same could be said for time.

Any earthly production would have been cancelled at the slightest suggestion of rain, but this was William’s Stage—it was William’s call—and if the children danced and the congregation remained transfixed, the show would go on.

…girls were like poems: weird, incomprehensible and boring, but those “in the know” assured me that they were beautiful.

What’s so beautiful about girls?” I would implore.And the secret society of adults would reply with a smirk and wink as if I was merely a boy who couldn’t possibly have the mental maturity to comprehend such grown-up concepts as love and bleeding vaginas; “You’ll understand someday, James.

The night seemed suddenly defiled by the absence of music, as if the silence itself was injecting a sickness that only another song could cure.