91 Quotes by Jeff Zentner

Nothing makes you feel more naked than someone identifying a desire you never knew you possessed.

She's it. She's my everything. She's the standard by which I'll judge beauty for the rest of my life. I'll measure every touch to her breath on my skin. Every voice to her voice. Every mind to her mind. My measure of perfection. The name carved into me. If I could, I would lie with her under these stars until my heart burst.

Writing is something that you can learn only by doing. To become a writer, you need an imagination, which you clearly have. You need to read books, which you clearly do. And you need to write, which you don't yet do, but should.

The funny thing is that I never see the world any differently through new glasses. I only ever see things differently when I look in the mirror.

But the thing with a best friend is that you’re never talking about nothing. Even when you’re talking about nothing, it’s something. The times when you think you’re talking about nothing, you’re actually talking about how you have someone with whom you can talk about nothing, and it’s fine.

I’d say the winner of this debate is the God of Death, who’s now several minutes closer to claiming all of us.

Here's where stories come in. They tell us the truth of other people's lives. They shine a light on shared humanity. They make us understand that we are different, but not 'different'. That our differences are something that makes the human tapestry richer and more colorful, and not a threat.

Talking to his father made Dill feel like he was talking to a sentient brick wall that somehow knew about Jesus.

It’s comforting to know that you don’t have to be excellent to not be completely forgotten.