Faces Quote by Jenny Valentine

“It's amazing what storms your face can hide, what terrible wrecks can writhe and heave beneath, without one ripple on the surface.” quote by Jenny Valentine — Download Open image

“It's amazing what storms your face can hide, what terrible wrecks can writhe and heave beneath, without one ripple on the surface.”

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What's wrong with the world Peter? God, I don't know. Where do you start? People give up. We're defeatists and we stop striving or fighting or enjoying things. It doesn't matter what you're talking about - war, work, marriage, democracy, love, it all fails because everybody gives up trying after a while, we can't help ourselves. And don't ask me…

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It's not knowing that drives you mad. It's imaging things that you wish you couldn't think up all by yourself.

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“What are you afraid of," she said. "Daylight?" No. I'm afraid of you. I'm afraid of myself, of whatever it is I'm going to…

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Everything is going to be fine.” I hate it when people say that, people who have absolutely no idea of what’s coming next. They…

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Even when you’d lost everything you thought there was to lose, somebody came along and gave you something for free.

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I smiled back and I thought how incredible that was, that they would find the time to smile. There was goodness in the world…

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I told myself that some families we get without asking, while others we choose. And I chose those two. I think that’s what you’d…

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There was goodness in the world still, even if you couldn't always see it.

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I thought about having a proper room, breathing life into it, and nobody minding.

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