91 Quotes by Jeff Zentner

Finally, I say, “I’ve had boyfriends who liked to go to the bookstore, but mostly so they could pretend to be smarter than me and brag about all the Kurt Vonnegut and Charles Bukowski they’ve read.” “Who and who?” “You can’t imagine what a relief that question is.” “No guy who tries to make you feel dumb deserves you.

I’m tired of watching children perish. I’m tired of watching the world grind up gentle people. I’m tired of outliving those I shouldn’t be outliving. I’ve made books my life because they let me escape this world of cruelty and savagery. I needed to say that out loud to somebody other than my cats. Please take care of yourselves, my young friends.

Whatever this is, I like it. However reckless, however unwise this is, I don’t care. I’d rather lose him this way than any other way.

For the most part, you don’t hold the people you love in your heart because they rescued you from drowning or pulled you from a burning house. Mostly you hold them in your heart because they save you, in a million quiet and perfect ways, from being alone.

I wish it would rain. Torrents. So hard it would cleanse me of worry and trouble; so hard it would lift the stain of death from me and carry it to the rivers and out the sea.

Because we should do things we’re afraid of. It makes it easier every time we do it.

That wouldn’t be a bad way to die... giving off light for millions of years after you’re gone.

I should wait. I don’t want to come off as a weirdo. But also I’m now keenly aware of how important it is to tell people what you want them to know while you can.

A liquid rose-gold warmth – whatever color is on the opposite end of the spectrum from the color of aloneness – fils me briefly.