“No one asked Jamey to be the policeman and pastor of egos. Why does he think this is his obligation?” — Jardine Libaire Copy Share Image
“My heart perceived wildernesses of contradictions and impossible truths and mystical lies.” — Jardine Libaire Nature Copy Share Image
In the 18th century, people began to adopt the radical new idea that love should be the most fundamental reason for marriage… — Jardine Libaire 18th century Copy Share Image
“She caught him in his schoolboy mode, polite and dutiful, mailing letters to his grandparents and step-siblings, notes full of nothing written… — Jardine Libaire Copy Share Image
“There's a way to resolve chaos and that's to finish what was started, and every organism knows this emergency plan without being… — Jardine Libaire Biology Copy Share Image
“I didn't know the exact trajectory of my breakdown, but I did know that I'd become weak, holding onto wildness, cherishing the… — Jardine Libaire Death Copy Share Image
“Isn't it crazy how anger sometimes feels like joy? Just a crash of blood through your heart.” — Jardine Libaire Anger Copy Share Image
“Tory smokes, sitting on the floor with her impeccable posture, the gang of disciples around her. A few are straight, two gay,… — Jardine Libaire Copy Share Image
“Night shift. Jamey raises his arm, and a hundred arms are raised. He smiles, with thousands of teeth. Jamey thinks of Narcissus… — Jardine Libaire Night shift Copy Share Image
“Good luck with everything. Oh, the world will treat at least half of you like half a person at best, not worth… — Jardine Libaire Doing good Copy Share Image
“He remembers noticing his dad's shadow was shorter than the others, and he had a visceral sense his father was weaker than… — Jardine Libaire Parenting Copy Share Image
“The gravity of any location pulls citizens to its heart, organizing people by abstractly spiritual geography.” — Jardine Libaire Copy Share Image
“I stood in my own field, wanting obligations to fall from me. This is one way of contemplating suicide, yet it's the… — Jardine Libaire Suicide Copy Share Image
“Binkie, the one and only. He can hear her rings clacking on the plastic phone, and he chuckles, envisioning with amusement the… — Jardine Libaire Social-commentary Copy Share Image
“It's amazing how a certain time in your life can seem to be a prelude, but when you look back, you realize… — Jardine Libaire Life Copy Share Image
“So much of life is about standing on the curb, willing to see what rolls up.” — Jardine Libaire Life Copy Share Image
“As filthy as any night was, a New York City morning is always clean. The eyes get washed. Flowers in white deli… — Jardine Libaire City Copy Share Image
“She buys a coffee with a couple quarters and sits in the park. She fools everyone, and always has, letting her mouth… — Jardine Libaire Copy Share Image
“New Year's Eve. It's a promise of a night. Single, married or widowed, in love, loveless or lovelorn, we all leave our… — Jardine Libaire Apartment Copy Share Image
“It's like he never wanted anything, but only thought and fretted about what he should want, what other people wanted him to… — Jardine Libaire Copy Share Image
“She likes the mystery of that changeover, those fifteen minutes of sundown when the streets and trees and people and parked cars… — Jardine Libaire City Copy Share Image
“His classes... had committed mutiny. The simplest, most innocent concepts turned overnight into enemies, capable of triggering full system shutdown. Light is… — Jardine Libaire Dreams Copy Share Image
“She thinks in wild gardens, and his thoughts are espaliered into an introduction with a thesis, then supporting paragraphs, and a conclusion.… — Jardine Libaire Copy Share Image
“But in this life we take turns at being enchanting, then enchanted. First we play in the streets, unaware of the freedom… — Jardine Libaire Freedom Copy Share Image
