“My heart perceived wildernesses of contradictions and impossible truths and mystical lies.” — Jardine Libaire Contradictions 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
“The gravity of any location pulls citizens to its heart, organizing people by abstractly spiritual geography.” — Jardine Libaire Geography 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
“No one asked Jamey to be the policeman and pastor of egos. Why does he think this is his obligation?” — Jardine Libaire Think Obligation 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
“Taped to her wall, where someone else might hang a crucifix, is a page torn from Rolling Stone: Prince in a misty… — Jardine Libaire Rolling stone 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
“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 People Wanted 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 Flower 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
“Tory smokes, sitting on the floor with her impeccable posture, the gang of disciples around her. A few are straight, two gay,… — Jardine Libaire Tory 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
“But in this life we take turns at being enchanting, then enchanted. First we play in the streets, unaware of the freedom… — Jardine Libaire Enchanted 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
“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 Father 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
“A dinner party is the oldest experiment. Trap a bunch of souls in a room. Faces move like painted moons, rising and… — Jardine Libaire Dinner 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
“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
“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
“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 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
“Binkie, the one and only. He can hear her rings clacking on the plastic phone, and he chuckles, envisioning with amusement the… — Jardine Libaire Grandmother Copy Share Image
“She didn't tell me how to live, and I didn't tell her how to die. We let sleeping dogs lie.” — Jardine Libaire Sleeping dogs Copy Share Image
“The stuff that changes your life is never very dramatic. You know? Not to other people.” — Jardine Libaire Dramatic Copy Share Image
“So much of life is about standing on the curb, wiling to see what rolls up.” — Jardine Libaire Life Copy Share Image
But one day, the things that make you free start to keep you down. — Jardine Libaire One day Copy Share Image
“Seeing herself do this, Elise realizes she always knew she would give the fruit away, at this exact moment, to that girl,… — Jardine Libaire Time Copy Share Image
“Fucking, drinking, smoking, loving, living, freebasing, spending, laughing, crying, working, falling apart, kissing, writing, blacking out.” — Jardine Libaire Falling apart Copy Share Image
“No one’s here this time of year except caretakers: often alcoholic friends of the family who can’t handle society, who hide and… — Jardine Libaire Alcoholic Copy Share Image
“You go through life thinking that there's a secret to life. And the secret to life is there is no secret to… — Jardine Libaire Life Copy Share Image
“The dreaminess of the night shift is constant, and objects float - keys and coffee cups and Chinese containers and tissues. Time… — Jardine Libaire Coffee cup Copy Share Image
“She comes from fighters—her mom can drive a stick shift, smoke a cigarette, drink a soda, put on mascara, and deliver a… — Jardine Libaire Family Copy Share Image
“But Elise eclipses the woman from Jamey's future, the lady in tennis whites flashing her diamond as she drinks orange juice fresh-squeezed… — Jardine Libaire Fortune Copy Share Image
“I now doubted myself. Innocencce was finite and could not be regenerated. Like spinal fluid. I knew this because I had run… — Jardine Libaire Copy Share Image
“Outside my window, truckers trucked, hookers fucked, cops cruised, kids smoked, elders yelled, invalids slept, spouses fought, lovers kissed, while I watched… — Jardine Libaire Marriage Copy Share Image
“Many hours later, Elise and Jamey go home, after dancing and fire juggling and ice queens, and they never see Frankie again.… — Jardine Libaire Ice queen Copy Share Image
