Justina Chen Quotes

Forgiving others is easier when I remember that I'm human and stupid, too.

Jolie laide = "pretty ugly"
Draws you to it ... bored into heart and mind.

What was so miraculous about a relationship that was based more on my gratitude than on mutual self respect?

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

No power was total, no power permanent, no power absolute.

You can see beauty in everything, except for yourself.

Even geniuses can be A class assholes.

Jacob: "Let her stare."
Terra: "What?"
Jacob: "Yeah most of the starers are just curious. Smile back. That's what I used to do.

Maybe that was the problem," Jacob said softly. "Don't we all need to feel needed? That we'd be missed if we were gone?

You don't need a geochache for this one."
"You don't, huh?"
"Nope.. here I am. Here I am.

But even quashed rebellions leave us different. Because freedom may be a forbidden fruit in tyrannies, but once tasted, it is unforgettable.

How many times had I begged Mom to divorce him already?

When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift.

These two people who had everything money could buy but the one thing that could be given freely: love.

Progress is hard on history.

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

Beauty - real everlasting beauty - lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It lives in what we do for ourselves and for others.

That even within its ugliness, there lay a surprising beauty, breathtaking because it was so unexpected.

North-ish." A pause, and then: "Is that Terra for I'm lost-ish?

Physical beauty wasn't the same as True Beauty, any more than pretty ugly meant truly ugly or Magnetic North meant True North.

You raze the old to raise the new.

No experience is wasted.

Come on, don't you ever stop and smell the coffee?

Call yourself a tea drinker all you want, but I know your sneaking in a cup of Kona....

Adventure in life is good; consistency in coffee even better.

There is real comfort in being quiet.

Mom was crying while she cooked, salting domesticity with anguish, the recipe of her life.

You know, there are easier ways to meet a guy than to run him over.

That's exactly why nature always trumps gardens. Gardens are just reality pruned of chaos. What doesn't work you rip out.

I didn't know that the world could be so mind-blowingly beautiful.

Silence, too, can be torture.

If Jacob was right and clothes were costumes and makeup a mask, then our attitudes and habits must be our shields.

Maybe we don't have the same definition of about what's beautiful. So define it. Define true beauty.

You would be surprised what two hours of daily exercise and five hundred stomach crunches can do for you.

Flawed, we're truly interesting, truly memorable, and yes, truly beautiful.

You know there are better ways to meet a guy then running him over.

If there was one thing I refused to be, it was an insignificant footnote in some boy's history.

He knew me in all the ways that truly mattered: the shape of my fears, the contours of my dreams.

Safe, I decided, didn't leave much room for fun.

Ever the collector of treasure maps that promised the world but led nowhere.

To dream is to starve doubt, feed hope.

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