Jonathan Morgensters Quotes

Clary smiled at him with a warmth she didn't feel.
"Sebastian says I can come with you."
Jace raised his eyebrows.
"Matching haircuts for everyone?"
"I hope not," said Sebastian. "I look terrible with curls. ~ Cassandra Clare

Nothing truly lasts forever, not even immortals. - Jonathan. ~ Helen Boswell

That was the thing about knowing people's secrets: It could make them not like you. ~ Jonathan Kellerman

I would have given him everything. I would have pulled down planets to make our life work. ~ Jonathan Carroll

Parents don't have the luxury of being reasonable, not any more than a religious person does. What can make religious people and parents so utterly insufferable is also what makes religion and Parenthood so utterly beautiful: the All or nothing wager. The Faith. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

That's got to be Nix," Benny said as he pulled the door open. "Hey, sweetie ... "
Morgie Mitchell and Lou Chong stood on the black porch.
"Um," said Chong, "hello to you, too, sugar lumps. ~ Jonathan Maberry

When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name. ~ Jonathan Swift

In my tradition, God revealed Himself in words and lives in stories and, no, you cannot touch or even see Him. The Word, in Judaism, was never made flesh. The closest God came to embodiment was in the Temple in Jerusalem ... But the Temple was destroyed. In Judaism, the flesh became words. Words were the traditional refuge of the Jewish people - Yochanan ben Zakkai led a yeshiva, my father became a professor. And little boys, in the Middle Ages, ate cakes with verses inscribed on them, an image I find deeply moving and, somehow, deeply depressing. This might help explain a certain melancholy quality books in general, for all their bright allure, have always had for me. As many times as I went down to my parents' library for comfort, I would find myself standing in front of the books and could almost feel them turning back into trees, failing me somehow. ~ Jonathan Rosen

I'm sorry, Miraculous One, it's difficult to think of new titles for you when you ask short questions. ~ Jonathan Stroud

Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. Call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically, that was really, really critical for the thing to pass. ~ Jonathan Gruber

Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men's minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission. ~ Jonathan Edwards

Don't rupture another's illusion unless you're positive the alternative you offer is more worthwhile than that from which you're wrenching them. Interrogate your solipsism: Does it offer any better a home than the delusions you're reaching to shatter? ~ Jonathan Lethem

I promote my own self-hatred. ~ Jonathan Ames

When I read a book I liked, I would get a pen and one of my father's legal pads and rewrite it from memory as if I had thought of it myself. It was a clear sign that I wanted to be involved in writing, even if it was just pretend at that point. ~ Jonathan Dee

We make and sell a very, very large number of (hopefully) beautiful, well-made things. Our success is a victory for purity, integrity - for giving a damn. ~ Jonathan Ive

Back (thank god for office accessorizing, the last playground of the reluctant adult). ~ Jonathan Tropper

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy. ~ Jonathan Swift

I deal with the authors I work with, agents, and other departments of the company, talking about both the books that I'm working on and everyone else's. Then there's dealing with foreign publishers: foreigners visit all the time. People want to bounce things off the publisher, and a lot of it is encouragement. ~ Jonathan Galassi

Resolved, that I will do whatsoever I think to be most to God's glory, and my own good, profit and pleasure, in the whole of my duration, without any consideration of the time, whether now, or never so many myriad's of ages hence. Resolved to do whatever I think to be my duty and most for the good and advantage of mankind in general. Resolved to do this, whatever difficulties I meet with, how many and how great soever. ~ Jonathan Edwards

When Maryam Babangida and Mariam Abacha built the Women Centre and the National Hospital they did not carry the buildings when they left government. I will not go with the peace mission building. Women should resist being used to kick against the project. If the project was for men the budget for the project would have long been passed. ~ Patience Jonathan

Our moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to compete with other teams. ~ Jonathan Haidt

At least when Israel releases terrorists to gain the freedom of one of its soldiers, the country's leaders have the grace to treat the decision as a regrettable action made out of necessity and nothing to celebrate. ~ Jonathan S. Tobin

A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom. ~ Jonathan Kozol

People who know but do not act do evil too. I don't know if I would call them evil but they're certainly not thinking about heaven. ~ Jonathan Kozol

All paths lead nowhere, choose one with heart, ~ Jonathan Lethem

The only question that nobody ever asks is: What breaks your heart? I think that should be asked of all "artists." ... So, what breaks your heart? ~ Jonathan Carroll

I know I've lost my mind. But I'm not concerned, because it's the first thing I've lost in a long time that actually feels good. ~ Jonathan Evison

So how do you know she was a mermaid if you didn't see her bottom half? ~ Jonathan Dunne

Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life. ~ Jonathan Swift

Because sometimes people who seem good
end up being not as good as you might have hoped. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

For those whose ganglia were formed pre-TV, the mimetic deployment of pop-culture icons seems at best an annoying tic and at worst a dangerous vapidity that compromises fiction's seriousness by dating it out of the Platonic Always, where it ought to reside. ~ Jonathan Lethem

If these two couldn't divorce why on earth would we expect them to get married? ~ Jonathan Freedland

Still, the facts are always there. Every teacher, every parent, every priest who serves this kind of neighborhood knows what these inequalities imply. So the sweetness of the moment loses something of its sweetness later on when you're reminded of the odds these children face and of the ways injustice slowly soils innocence. You wish you could eternalize these times of early glory. You wish that Elio and Ariel and Pineapple could stay here in this garden of their juvenile timidity forever. You know they can't. You have a sense of what's ahead. You do your best to shut it out. You want to know them as they are. You do not want to think too much of what may someday be. ~ Jonathan Kozol

Time will always have the answer in the end, whether you like that answer is immaterial to Time because it tends not to keep friends. ~ Jonathan Dunne

I have a cameo in every movie. In '50/50,' I'm in the back of the bus. ~ Jonathan Levine

Weak people hold grudges, Mom. Strong people forgive. ~ Jonathan Franzen

Rowdy, hopped-up college kids pass us in an endless, noisy blur like they're being mass produced or squeezed out of a tube - guys skulking in their T-shirts and cargo shorts, girls in low-slung jeans and flip-flops, pimples and breasts and tattoos and lipstick and legs and bra straps, and cigarettes; a colorful, sexy melange. I feel old and tired and I just want to be them again, want to be young and stupid, filled with angst and attitude and unbridled lust. Can I have a do-over, please? I swear to God I'll make a real go of it this time. ~ Jonathan Tropper

They all behaved as if they were absolutely disgusted by this, and amid the ribbing and hilarity that this elaborate performance of disgust and envy produced they were able to hide their true feelings of disgust and envy. ~ Jonathan Lynn

Eager, perhaps, to repay the favor of listening, Sylvia nodded with encouragement. But suddenly she reminded Enid of Katharine Hepburn. In Hepburn's eyes there had been a blank unconsciousness of privilege that made a once-poor woman like Enid want to kick her patrician shins with the hardest-toed pumps at her disposal. It would be a mistake, she felt, to confess anything to this woman. ~ Jonathan Franzen

You're not one of those despicable literary sleuths who think he can deduce every last little sordid biographical detail from a writer's work, are you? ~ Jonathan Galassi

Katz couldn't have said exactly why Walter mattered to him. No doubt part of it was simply an accident of grandfathering: of forming an attachment at an impressionable ago, before the contours of his personality were fully set. ~ Jonathan Franzen

I don't ever want to live in a world where something like mercy ... or maybe it's compassion ... is the wrong choice. ~ Jonathan Maberry

As I followed Mr. Harrison, I picked up his salty, sweet odor - it pervaded the whole apartment actually - and I liked it. It smelled alive. ~ Jonathan Ames

I like being 30. I wouldn't want to do the twenties again. They are their own entity. ~ Jonathan Rhys Meyers