J Quotes
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“Jake's POV: It was just too bad that Chloe was freezing Ally out even though her family hadn't been affected. Because otherwise Ally would be here and maybe I could be making out with her instead of Lisa Freckles. Except that Ally would be making out with David Drake. Was that what they were doing right now? Hooking up at some party? Dorkus Drake got to kiss Ally Ryan whenever he wanted. In what universe was that okay?”
Source: She's So Dead to Us
“Jake's POV: Meanwhile, Ally was here with Marshall Moss, who she was obviously going to hook up with later. They'd barely stopped touching each other all night. Even now, they were out in the middle of the dance floor dancing to some Black Eyed Peas song. No reason to be touching for a fast song, but they were. Holding hands while they bounced around with friends.
She looked happy. Which made me want to punch someone. Preferably Marshall Moss.”
Source: She's So Dead to Us
“Jake’s shirt and jeans gave off a business vibe with the hint of a wide range of corporate occupations from sales to IT. Only politicians and real estate agents wore a suit and tie these days. Dressed to push an agenda. A man wearing a two-piece suit and tie would be remembered and many people became guarded, sus of the wearer’s intention. Guarded meant memorable.
Blend into the environment; do not stick out.”
Source: Dead Mercenary's Trail
“Jake takes the warm pizza from the oven, spreads it with a wedge of softened, oozing Taleggio, scatters a few slices of apricot, some prosciutto, and a handful of the arugula over the top. He anoints it with olive oil and a squeeze of fresh lemon. The combination is one of my recipes, and it's been a seasonal favorite at the restaurant for years.”
Source: Aftertaste: A Novel in Five Courses
“Jake. There is so much I want to tell you, but we've always found it hard to talk to each other, haven't we?”
Source: The Whisper Man
“Jake tried to pull away from the clutching hand and went sprawling on the Tick-Tock Man's throne. His eye fell on a pocket which had been sewn into the right-hand arm-rest. Jutting from the elasticized top was the cracked pearl handle of a revolver.
"Oh, cully, how you'll suffer!" the Tick-Tock Man whispered ecstatically. The O of surprise had been replaced by a wide, trembling grin. "Oh how you'll suffer! And how happy I'll be to...WHAT--?"
The grin slackened and the surprised O began to reappear as Jake pointed the cheesy nickel-plated revolver at him and thumbed back the hammer. The grip on Jake's ankle tightened until it seemed to him that the bones there must snap.
"You DASN'T!" Tick-Tock said in a screamy whisper.
"Yes I DO," Jake said grimly, and pulled the trigger of the Tick-Tock Man's runout gun. There was a flat crack, much less dramatic than the Schmeisser's Teutonic roar. A small black hole appeared high up on the right side of Tick-Tock's forehead. The Tick-Tock Man went on staring up at Jake, disbelief in his remaining eye.
Jake tried to make himself shoot him again and couldn't do it.
Suddenly a flap of the Tick-Tock Man's scalp peeled away like old wallpaper and dropped on his right cheek. Roland would have known what this meant; Jake, however, was now almost beyond coherent thought. A dark, panicky horror was spinning across his mind like a tornado funnel. He cringed back in the big chair as the hand on his ankle fell away and the Tick-Tock Man collapsed forward on his face.
The door. He had to open the door and let the gunslinger in.
Focusing on that and nothing but, Jake let the pearl-handled revolver clatter to the iron grating...”
Source: The Waste Lands
“Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law but served the state, no history that gave an inkling of how it had been and what had happened. And no love, only egotism, infatuation and lust.”
Source: Jake's Thing
“Jake was going to shatter her. But she had to trust that he’d put her back together again.”
Source: Clean to the Bone
“Jake was right--I'm strong in a way June never was. Because I know that I want to be here. Even with the pain. Even with the ugliness. I've seen the other side--marching side by side down city streets with people who all believe they can change the world and the view of the sunset from Fridgehenge and Tom Waits lyrics and doing the waltz and kisses so hot they melt into each other and best friends who hold your hand and stretching out underneath a sky draped with stars and everything else. There is so much beauty in just existing. In being alive. I don't want to miss a second.”
Source: Saving June
“Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find another world on the other side. A bell jingled overhead. The mild, spicy smell of old books hit him, and the smell was somehow like coming home.”
Source: The Waste Lands
“Jake, you are our leader. You are the one who can bring us all together and help us defeat the Controllers. We have the ability to be much more than we are, to have the stealth of a cat, and... and the eyes of eagles, and the sense of smell of a dog, and... and the speed of a horse or a cheetah. We're going to need it all, if we have any hope of holding out against the Controllers."
I wanted it not to be true. I wanted none of it to be true. But I knew that it was. I nodded slowly. It felt like I was agreeing to something awful. Like I was volunteering for a trip to the dentist or something much worse. It felt like a million pounds of weight had just landed on my shoulders.
- Animorphs #1, The Invasion page 31”
“Jake's mouth found mine, his lips molding hot and soft to my own. His tongue tentatively tested the seal of my lips; I parted them and he pushed inside. It was startlingly sweet and achingly familiar, like finding harbor.”
“Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying?" (Seeing all her children assembled at her bedside in her last illness.)”
“Jakie to musi być okropne uczucie kochać kogoś i nie móc mu pomóc”
Source: All the Bright Places
“Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying ?”
“Jakimowski znowu wychylił nową porcję gdańskiej wódki. I nawet mnie mrugnął okiem. Zdawać by się mogło, że jego podgolona łepetyna jest mocniejsza niż żelazny czerep armatniego granatu. Ot, co znaczyła wielowiekowa tradycja szlacheckiego narodu.”
“Jakku had trained her to do two things better than anyone else could.
The first was to salvage broken things.
The second was to wait.”
Source: Star Wars: The Last Jedi
“Jalal," she said, "I can explain."
"There's no need."
"I'm not - "
"I told you; there's no need." He spoke simply. "I trust you.”
Source: The Wrath and the Dawn
“Jalal shook his head and moved toward Khalid. "She is. Please give her a chance to explain."
"Leave," Khalid commanded quietly.
"Don't let your fear and your distrust ruin this."
His uncle took Jalal by the shoulder.
"She loves you!" Jalal continued, his tone heedless. "This is not what it seems. Maybe it began as something else, but I would bet my life on what it is now. She loves you. Please don't fall to hate. You're not your father. You are so much more. She is so much more.”
Source: The Wrath and the Dawn
“Jalaluddin Rumi is completely rooted in Islamic teachings of Quran. He was a great scholar, he belonged to a madrassa, and he knew Islamic theology and jurisprudence very well. He knew Persian, Arabic and Turkish, which was coming into Anatolia at that time, very well. He was a remarkable, remarkable scholar, besides being a great saint.”
“Jalan apapun yang kalian pilih, bersinarlah di manapun kalian berada.”
“Jalan dalam malam hujan gerimis gelap, jalan berliku tidak habis-habisnya. Jalan tak ada ujung.”
“Jalan, kenangan dan alunan musik tidak pernah gagal membuat setiap orang menjadi melankolis dan cengeng.”
Source: Jalan Panjang yang Berangin
“Jalan macet di Jakarta tak pernah menyisakan sedikit pun udara. Tak bisa bergerak, sekaligus tak bisa bernapas. Dan sang waktu mengepakkan sayapnya tanpa peduli. Meski telah menyengsarakan, karena membuat semua orang selalu terburu-buru. Membuat semua orang saling mengalahkan untuk menjadi yang lebih cepat.”
Source: Lelaki Terindah
“Jalan menuju yang baik itu memang lengang.”
Source: Anak Rantau
“jalan pulang berada djauh di belakang waktu
yang lama telah engkau tinggalkan. tiada
esak tangis dan kepiluan untuk engkau luahkan
di pintu angan kerana segala yang bermula
telah pun berakhir.
(Pintu Angan)”
Source: Kumpulan Puisi: Sehelai Daun Kenangan
“Jalang
Ada sekuntum mawar di dadamu
dan dusta di mulutmu.
Sesungguhnya,
Kau tak menggonggong
serupa anjing yang tolol.
Kau hanya tak mengindahkan hal lain, selain rasa laparku.
Kaugigit tulang
dari kedalamanku yang perih.
Mata yang tak peduli
dan hasrat untuk membunuh.
Gelegak darah ini
sama kejinya dengan tikam amarah.
Api yang kau sembunyikan
di balik mata pisau beringas.
Pada dadamu yang terbelah
jantungmu yang memerah.
Kejalangan yang kau tunjukkan
tanpa penyesalan dan rasa malu.
Lagak lagumu tak semerah gincu
yang kau kenakan malam itu.
Dan apakah itu...
secarik kain sewarna darah
yang tak mampu menutupi kemesumanmu dari dunia?
Dari dulu sekali,
Kau sudah bukan milikku lagi!
...
Kau sudah jadi milik semua orang.
Semua kata cinta
yang kau obral dengan murah.
Haram jadah yang terlahir
dari mimpi basah di siang bolong.
Mimpi tempatku
menghabiskan waktu.
Waktu dan seluruh kesia-siaan.
Waktu yang tak bernilai;
Onggokan sampah!
Sumpah serapah dan omong kosong.
Waktu yang membusuk
dalam pikiran semua orang.
Mereka yang tak lebih anjing
dari diriku sendiri.
Mereka yang penuh gairah menanti
saat tiba jam pertunjukan
dengan air liur menetes.
Mereka, yang menyulam
benang laba-laba itu
ke dalam pikiranmu.
Seutas rambut yang lebih tipis
dari harga diri dan kehormatan.
Nilai yang kau sendiri
Bahkan tak peduli.
Bodohnya lagi,
seperti yang selama ini terjadi...
Aku masih saja duduk terpaku
di depan layar menyesatkan itu
menunggu...
Merasa lebih, memiliki dirimu
Lebih dari siapa pun, Kay!
2024 - 2025”
“Jalebi (dessert) makes tea taste bland [tasteless]. Similarly, when one tastes the happiness of the Self, it makes worldly happiness bland. One cannot break free from the worldly life until one finds worldly happiness bland.”
“Jam Cruise is actually a comfortable place for me. My jamming skills and my improvisational skills have improved immensely as I've gone more solo, because I've had this opportunity.”
“Jam jamming,” Meghan chanted in a sing song voice. “I like the idea, the feel. I KNOW what you are getting at. Where does a sound end? Has the Earth been pumping billions upon billions of horrendous noises into the depths of space since the time primates began walking? Can you imagine all the noisy concerts, explosions of war, and thundering of bombs, all drifting endlessly into empty darkness? Can you imagine? For infinity? Frozen glaciers, devoid rocks, suddenly illuminated to be crushed by all that deafening din, waking the inhabitants of other planets. Jamming alien satellite signals. If there is life out there, it wants to destroy us....I must be really stoned to see this so clearly”
Source: Justice of the Fox
“Jam nie z soli wyrósł ani z roli, jeno z tego, co mnie boli”
Source: Potop
“Jam njeri i semure... Jam edhe tip keqdashesi. Nuk bej pjese, nderkohe, ne simpatiket. Me duket se vuaj nga melçia, ndonese vete une gje prej gjeje nuk kuptoj nga semundjet, as qe e di me saktesi ç'me dhemb. Nuk kurohem e as jam kuruar ndonjehere, pavaresisht nga respekti qe kam per mjekesine (se i shkolluar une jam, por edhe bestyd jam). Me ka hipur ne kole, nuk dua te kurohem nga inati. Ju kete kushedi as edhe e kuptoni, kurse une e kuptoj, ndonese s'jam ne gjendje t'ua shpjegoj se kujt i bej dem me kete inat timin. E di fort mire, qe as mjekeve e askujt tjeter nuk i behet vone qe jam tip inatçori, e as vete per veten nuk e çaj koken, ndonese fort mire e di qe inati eshte dem i kokes. Ngado qe ta sjellesh e kam mbushur mendjen, e kam bere top: nuk dua qe nuk dua te kurohem. Me dhemb kjo e shkrete melçi, le te dhembe, nuk paska plasur!”
Source: Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
“Jam on a winter took away the blue devils. It was like tasting summer.”
Source: Prayers for Sale
“Jam! I love my jam. I've just had a batch of it come through, I've been making it.”
“Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems.”
“Jamaica has the best coffee, the best sugar, the best ginger and some of the best cocoa in the world.”
“Jamaica is an island that is filled with so much culture.”
“Jamaica is just one of those places that has so many stimulating factors in everyday existence. It definitely feeds me, my creativity and my soul in so many ways.”
“Jamaica is kind of similar to Miami, but to go from there to Miami, and then Miami to L.A., it's crazy.”
“Jamaica is more than just the 'brand' the world recognizes so well; it's a place of pride for the people who live here, its educational institutions, its sports achievements, its science and technology growth.”
“Jamaica is one of the most musically influential nations in the world. Throughout the entire globe, there are pockets that are constantly in touch with what goes on in the dancehall community, from Germany to Japan, to different parts of Africa like Ghana.”
“Jamaica is so musical, diverse and so extreme, from people singing in the streets to dancing.”
“Jamaica's probably the most dominant island as far as influence goes, as far as music and dancing and culture.”
“Jamaican music can be aggressive, soulful, smooth and exciting all at once - just like hip-hop. At the same time, there's nothing like Jamaica in the United States. Jamaica is its own thing.”
“Jamaican reggae is the style of music I always reach for when ranting to friends about how you could listen to one style of music exclusively for the rest of your life - and it would all be great and varied and worth hearing.”
“Jamais declare que você é um cavaleiro, simplesmente comporte-se como um. Você não é melhor do que ninguém, e ninguém é melhor do que você.”
“Jamais finja que não é um cavaleiro ou tente diminuir-se porque julga que isso fará os outros sentirem-se melhor. Mostramos maior respeito aos outros ao lhes apresentar o melhor de nós mesmos.”
Source: Rules for a Knight
“Jamais fui outra coisa que não um funcionário. Fui criado para trabalhar. Não tive infância, mas já tentei imaginar uma. Meu colega humano às vezes menciona que não quer trabalhar, depois diz algo muito estranho, completamente sem sentido. O que pode ser? Ele diz "a pessoa é mais do que o trabalho que faz", ou então, "a gente não é só trabalho". Mas o que se pode ser além disso? Como conseguiríamos comer, onde teríamos companhia? O que seria de alguém sem trabalho e sem colegas? Passaria a vida inteira enfurnado num armário?”
Source: The Employees
“Jamais il n’y aura d’État vraiment libre et éclairé, tant que l’État n’en viendra pas à reconnaître à l’individu un pouvoir supérieur et indépendant d’où découlerait tout le pouvoir et l’autorité d’un gouvernement prêt à traiter l’individu en conséquence.”
Source: Civil Disobedience
“Jamais il ne commence une phrase par : La vie, tu verras …
Je ne tiens de lui aucune parole de sagesse, aucune recommandation sur l’avenir, aucun cadeau de son expérience. Je ne l’entends pas m’encourager à faire mes premiers pas ni à tenir en équilibre sur un vélo. Il ne m’apprend ni à ma raser ni à planter un clou. Certes, j’entends parler ici ou là des principes fondateurs d’une vie d’homme, des bienfaits du travail, des vertus de la patience et des commandements de l’honnêteté, mais comment les faire siens si aucun être de confiance ne vous les souffle à l’oreille comme un secret dont vous êtes l’unique destinataire ? Même l’idiot, le taiseux, l’égocentrique, le poète ou le tyran, quelles que soient ses valeurs, se sent investi du devoir de les transmettre. Je me serais contenté d’un peu de sens commun, d’un poncif, d’un dicton populaire. Même un proverbe napolitain aurait fait l’affaire.”
Source: Porca miseria