The Serpent King
Jeff Zentner
Top 10 Best Quotes
“If you're going to live, you might as well do painful, brave, and beautiful things.”
“Nothing makes you feel more naked than someone identifying a desire you never knew you possessed.”
“She's it. She's my everything. She's the standard by which I'll judge beauty for the rest of my life. I'll measure every touch to her breath on my skin. Every voice to her voice. Every mind to her mind. My measure of perfection. The name carved into me. If I could, I would lie with her under these stars until my heart burst.”
“That wouldn't be a bad way to die...giving off light for millions of years after you're gone.”
“I've made books my life because they let me escape this world of cruelty and savagery.”
“Writing is something that you can learn only by doing. To become a writer, you need an imagination, which you clearly have. You need to read books, which you clearly do. And you need to write, which you don't yet do, but should.”
“I want you to be careful in this world. My heart is wrapped up in you.”
“So when I watch trains, it makes me think about how much movement there is in the world. How every train has dozens of cars and every car has hundreds of parts, and all those parts and cars work day after day. And then there are all these other motions. People are born and die. Seasons change. Rivers flow to the sea. Earth circles the sun and the moon circles Earth. Everything whirring and spinning toward something. And I get to be part of it for a little while, the way I get to watch a train for a minute or two, and then it's gone.”
“What you call pride, I call courage.”
“People live quiet lives and that's okay. There's dignity in that, no matter what you may think.”
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