Home > Author > Jardine Libaire

Jardine Libaire QUOTES

Jardine Libaire QUOTES

1 " She likes the mystery of that changeover, those fifteen minutes of sundown when the streets and trees and people and parked cars are delicate and immediate, every sound and smell and movement amplified by the lowest light or the lightest darkness. Even a city that’s broken and dirty can, in that time, be divine and intimate. "

― Jardine Libaire , White Fur

2 " As filthy as any night was, a New York City morning is always clean. The eyes get washed.
Flowers in white deli buckets are replenished. The population bathes, in marble mausoleums of Upper East Side showers, or in Greenwich Village tubs, or in the sink of a Chinatown one-bedroom crammed with fifteen people. Some bar opens and the first song on the jukebox is Johnny Thunders, while bums pick up cigarette butts to see what’s left to smoke. The smell of espresso and hot croissants. The weather vane squeaks in the sun. Pigeons are reborn out of the mouths of blue windows. "

― Jardine Libaire , White Fur

3 " New Year's Eve. It's a promise of a night. Single, married or widowed, in love, loveless or lovelorn, we all leave our apartments and pick through snow in high heels, or descend subway stairs in tuxedos, lured to wherever we're going--whether we know it or not, would deny it or not--by the kiss of a stranger. "

― Jardine Libaire , Here Kitty Kitty

4 " Fucking, drinking, smoking, loving, living, freebasing, spending, laughing, crying, working, falling apart, kissing, writing, blacking out. "

― Jardine Libaire , Here Kitty Kitty

5 " Isn't it crazy how anger sometimes feels like joy? Just a crash of blood through your heart. "

― Jardine Libaire , Here Kitty Kitty

6 " It's amazing how a certain time in your life can seem to be a prelude, but when you look back, you realize it was a whole work, with a beginning, middle, and end. "

― Jardine Libaire , Here Kitty Kitty

7 " It's like he never wanted anything, but only thought and fretted about what he should want, what other people wanted him to want. "

― Jardine Libaire , White Fur

8 " The stuff that changes your life is never very dramatic. You know? Not to other people. "

― Jardine Libaire , Here Kitty Kitty

9 " I’ll die for your sins if you live for mine. "

― Jardine Libaire , White Fur

10 " I didn't know the exact trajectory of my breakdown, but I did know that I'd become weak, holding onto wildness, cherishing the idea of it the way you blow a dying fire. "

― Jardine Libaire , Here Kitty Kitty

11 " So much of life is about standing on the curb, willing to see what rolls up. "

― Jardine Libaire , White Fur

12 " I stood in my own field, wanting obligations to fall from me. This is one way of contemplating suicide, yet it's the exact opposite: what I wanted was to be alive, to escape all the damage, to shed it like snakeskin, to emerge pure and naked and laughing. "

― Jardine Libaire , Here Kitty Kitty

13 " She'd half loved men, and they'd half failed her. "

― Jardine Libaire , Here Kitty Kitty

14 " She thinks in wild gardens, and his thoughts are espaliered into an introduction with a thesis, then supporting paragraphs, and a conclusion. She "

― Jardine Libaire , White Fur

15 " He remembers noticing his dad's shadow was shorter than the others, and he had a visceral sense his father was weaker than the rest, and that he was more dangerous as a weak person with a lot of power than a powerful person with a lot of power. "

― Jardine Libaire , White Fur

16 " So many land mines in this new territory called adulthood. Talent has a window. Freedom sometimes becomes a trap. We may die before we finish our dreams. Acutally, that we die is a pretty big surprise by itself. We can't spend innocence without accounting. Relationships are contracts. We partner not just for love but because we become too weak to make it alone. "

― Jardine Libaire , Here Kitty Kitty

17 " She caught him in his schoolboy mode, polite and dutiful, mailing letters to his grandparents and step-siblings, notes full of nothing written in perfect script. Yet he feels like she caught him so unaware and alone that she saw the other side, the wolf crawling through wreckage, through broken walls, cracked Venetian mirrors, dust, blood, a turned-over rocking horse - the child who doesn't know it's own name. "

― Jardine Libaire , White Fur

18 " My heart perceived wildernesses of contradictions and impossible truths and mystical lies. "

― Jardine Libaire , Here Kitty Kitty

19 " But in this life we take turns at being enchanting, then enchanted. First we play in the streets, unaware of the freedom burning in the sun on our hair and the cigarette in our mouth, unconscious of the daydreams we inspire. Then it's our time to sit at a window and watch, and we are moved. "

― Jardine Libaire , Here Kitty Kitty

20 " But one day, the things that make you free start to keep you down. "

― Jardine Libaire , Here Kitty Kitty