J. D. Daniels quotes

“This is what it's like to get old: You still feel 19, except your knees hurt”
-- J. D. Daniels

Source : "Regrets at Fordham". Interview with Keith Gessen, nplusonemag.com. December 17, 2011.

#Hurt Quotes #Knees Quotes #Feels Quotes

“Why do people feel things and go places, tell me if you know.”
-- J. D. Daniels

Source : J. D. Daniels (2017). “The Correspondence”, p.26, Macmillan

#People Quotes #Feels Quotes

“There was nothing the matter with me that was not also the matter with everyone else. I was not as interesting as I thought I was. My major problem, inadequate or inappropriate love from my parents, was as common as dirt. And one rainy day, all the boring poignancy of these realizations detonated in me like an atom bomb, burning the dead shadow of each former torment or preoccupation onto solid rock. Those silhouettes, that record would remain: the museum where I used to be.”
-- J. D. Daniels

Source : J. D. Daniels (2017). “The Correspondence”, p.25, Random House

#Rainy Day Quotes #Museums Quotes #Rocks Quotes

“Why, if 'tis dancing you would be, There's brisker pipes than poetry. Say, for what were hop-yards meant, Or why was Burton built on Trent? Oh many a peer of England brews Livelier liquor than the Muse, And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man. Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink For fellows whom it hurts to think: Look into the pewter pot To see the world as the world's not.”

Source : A Shropshire Lad no. 62, l. 21 (1896)

“I'm not going to hurt her. I know she's special and I tried to stay away, but when I'm with I don't feel so cold and alone.”

“I get to keep you,” he said, staring at me with an intensity that made me shiver. “Keep me?” I asked, reaching up to kiss his chin and trail kisses down his perfect neck. “Not here. I can’t take much more, Pagan. I’m only so strong,” he said in a husky voice as he pulled me against his chest. “You’re mine now. While you walk the Earth you belong to me. Nothing can hurt you.” I heard a touch of humor in his voice. “It’s pretty impossible to hurt what Death protects.”

“Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me”

“Let people realize clearly that every time they threaten someone or humiliate or unnecessarily hurt or dominate or reject another human being, they become forces for the creation of psychopathology, even if these be small forces. Let them recognize that every person who is kind, helpful, decent, psychologically democratic, affectionate, and warm, is a psychotheraputic force, even though a small one.”

“I've had journalists asking me, 'What do we call you - is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?' I said, 'Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I'm a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.'”

“Let's keep our chins up and our knees down - we're on the victory side.”

“Having a normal knee would make life a lot easier.”

“I'm glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees.”

“Arrogance is despised by God because no one has the right to feel superior to another when all are equally dependent on Him for everything.”