42 Quotes by Justina Chen Headley

Silence, too, can be torture.

Hey, if it's a good philosophy, it works. Death is imminent. Live every day like it's your last.

So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and then another one next to it. "So why wouldn't you want to join the ranks of the ridiculed?

Progress is hard on history.

There is a time to study a map passionately, obsessively. To see where you’ve gone, where others have gone before you. To commit to every obstacle, every danger. Shakespeare had a term for this obsession: mappery. But there is a time, too, when you say, come dragons. I challenge you to find me.

You raze the old to raise the new.

I wondered about her chicken-and-egg relationship with Dad. Which came first? Her helplessness or his controlling?

I understood now: how nothing looked more beautiful than that scar of his, that borderline that separated what Jacob could have been had he stayed in that orphanage from who he is.

You know, sometimes the most direct route isn't the right one. - Jacob