“Learning to be an adult was learning that your best was rarely quite enough.” — Jennifer duBois Adult learning Copy Share Image
“I think the only way to properly face doom is to be on time.” — Jennifer Dubois Doom Copy Share Image
“What you imagine is what you remember, and what you remember is what you’re left with. So why not decide to imagine… — Jennifer Dubois Imagine Copy Share Image
“Everybody should have someone whose belief in them is unwavering, unconditional, always.” — Jennifer duBois Faith Copy Share Image
“She submitted to his embrace with the resignation of a person who has already planned to take away something enormous, and so… — Jennifer duBois Embrace Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness was work, Eduardo told victims' families--but so, then, was love, and deciding what was right, and defending it. Recusing yourself from… — Jennifer duBois Courage Copy Share Image
“That's an applicable life lesson, my boy,' he'd said. 'Nobody is really paying attention to you. Most people don't really get this.… — Jennifer duBois Disregard Copy Share Image
“My father had a healthy disregard for social conventions: he once let me paint the house windows in rainbows with my watercolor… — Jennifer Dubois Crazy Copy Share Image
“He could hear his knees crack, and it made him feel old. You had to live so terribly long to actually be… — Jennifer Dubois Life Copy Share Image
“The city had seemed grand to him once ... it had once had a certain clarity. When you're young you think it's… — Jennifer duBois Intoxicating Copy Share Image
“And anyway, the anticipation was always worse than the thing itself - the anticipation and the memory, of course. And the anticipation… — Jennifer duBois Memory Copy Share Image
“But all that talk. All those confidences. He shuddered to think about it. At the time, though, he didn't know any better,… — Jennifer Dubois Confidence Copy Share Image
“There wasn't a single cell in our bodies that was the same as the day we were born, and yet we were… — Jennifer duBois Held Responsible Copy Share Image
“I will admit it sometimes felt strange to me to make the confession to someone and later catch them laughing, or flirting,… — Jennifer Dubois Confession Copy Share Image
“Sometimes there are things we don't understand even about ourselves. Sometimes we run out of the time to keep trying to unravel… — Jennifer Dubois Inspirational life Copy Share Image
“Well, we spent enough on gymnastics.' 'Christ, did we,' said Maureen. 'So many lessons.' So many lessons, it was true: art and… — Jennifer duBois Art and music Copy Share Image
“There's an intimacy in listening to somebody's lies, I've always thought--you learn more about someone from the things they wish were true… — Jennifer Dubois Intimacy Copy Share Image
“It was bewildering, the way that reality could be overtaken, wrestled down, and murdered by the sheer weight of possibility.” — Jennifer Dubois Bewilderment Copy Share Image
“She never had to learn to live in a world that didn't necessarily want to go easy on her.” — Jennifer duBois Entitlement Copy Share Image
“Maybe this had been something like the colour blindness of the ancient Greeks, before words had ushered in vision - we do… — Jennifer duBois Ancient greek Copy Share Image
“Thinking more than a move ahead never got me anywhere in life. Only in chess. And even then it was sometimes a… — Jennifer Dubois Chess Copy Share Image
“One can become so sentimental about a person's absence, but it's impossible to be consistently sentimental in his presence - when you're… — Jennifer Dubois Life Copy Share Image
“No?” This was a matter of some interest to Lily; when she and Harold had broken up, they had solemnly vowed to… — Jennifer duBois Friendship Copy Share Image
