74 Quotes by Jessamyn West

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.

Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

A big iron needle stitching the country together.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.