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The Thing About Jellyfish QUOTES

1 " A jellyfish, if you watch it long enough, begins to look like a heart beating. It doesn't matter what kind: the blooded Atolla with its flashing siren lights, the frilly flower hat variety, or the near-transparent moon jelly, Aurelia aurita. It's their pulse, the way they contract swiftly, than release. Like a ghost heart-- a heart you can see right through, right into some other world where everything you ever lost as gone to hide.
Jellyfish don't even have hearts, of course-- no heart, no brain, no bone, no blood. But watch them for a while. You will see them beating. "

― Ali Benjamin , The Thing About Jellyfish

2 " If people were silent, they could hear the noise of their own lives better. If people were silent, it would make what they did say, whenever they chose to say it, more important. If people were silent, they could read one another's signals, the way underwater creatures flash lights at one another, or turn their skin different colors. "

― Ali Benjamin , The Thing About Jellyfish

3 " We were made of stardust. "

― Ali Benjamin , The Thing About Jellyfish

4 " Her sabah savaştığım,karmakarışık saçlarımı düşünüyorum.Yaşamım boyunca,dolaşık saçlarımı fırçalayıp açmak için saatler harcadım ama saçlarımı ne kadar özenle tutamlara ayırmaya çalışsam da hemen dolaşıveriyorlar.Açılması olanaksız bir hale gelinceye kadar birbirlerine giriyorlar.Bazen makası kapıp oracıkta düğümü kesmekten başka elden bir şey gelmiyor.Ama insanlardan oluşan bir düğümü nasıl kesebilirsiniz ki? "

― Ali Benjamin , The Thing About Jellyfish

5 " Which made me think about a musician Aaron told me about: a composer who wrote a piece with no notes whatsoever. When the piece is performed, a musician comes onstage, opens the piano, sets a timer, and plays nothing. Aaron said the first time the piece was performed, the audience got nervous -- they whispered to one another and shifted in their seats, and some even walked out. Now when it's performed, people expect the silence. Instead of getting mad or nervous, they hear other things: the rustling of programs, fabric sliding against seats, polite coughing. They hear themselves, which they wouldn't hear otherwise, even though those noises were always there.

That piece is called 4'33", because the performer sits quietly for exactly four minutes and thirty-three seconds. "

― Ali Benjamin , The Thing About Jellyfish

6 " Sometimes you want things to change so badly, you can’t even stand to be in the same room with the way things actually are. "

― Ali Benjamin , The Thing About Jellyfish

7 " It's peculiar how no-words can be better than words. Silence can say more than noise, in the same way that a person's absence can occupy even more space than their presence did. "

― Ali Benjamin , The Thing About Jellyfish

8 " Somehow, that fact - that sometimes things do just happen - seemed like it might be the scariest and saddest truth of all. "

― Ali Benjamin , The Thing About Jellyfish

9 " There’s no single right way to say goodbye to someone you love. But the most important thing is that you keep some part of them inside you. "

― Ali Benjamin , The Thing About Jellyfish

10 " But a person doesn’t always know the difference between a new beginning and a forever sort of ending. "

― Ali Benjamin , The Thing About Jellyfish

11 " Saying goodbye is important. It's what allows us to begin to live again. "

― Ali Benjamin , The Thing About Jellyfish

12 " There are so many things to be scared of in this world: blooms of jellies. A sixth extinction. A middle school dance. But maybe we can stop feeling so afraid. Maybe instead of feeling like a mote of dust, we can remember that all the creatures on this Earth are made from stardust.
And we are the only ones who get to know it.
That's the thing about jellyfish: They'll never understand that. All they can do is drift along, unaware.
Humans may be newcomers to this planet. We may be plenty fragile. But we're also the only ones who can decide to change. "

― Ali Benjamin , The Thing About Jellyfish

13 " Maybe this is what happens when a person grows up. Maybe the space between you and the other people in your life grows so big you can stuff it full of all kinds of lies. "

― Ali Benjamin , The Thing About Jellyfish

14 " And that made me realize this: Everyone’s story is different, all the time. No one is ever really together, even if it looks for a while like they "

― Ali Benjamin , The Thing About Jellyfish

15 " THE TRICK TO ANYTHING IS JUST BELIEVING you can do it. When you believe in your own ability to do something, even something scary, it gives you an almost magic power. Confidence is magic. It can carry you through everything. "

― Ali Benjamin , The Thing About Jellyfish

16 " In the end Suzanne, it's a gift to spend time with people we care about. Even if it's imperfect. Even if that time doesn't end when, or how, we expected. Even when that person leaves us. "

― Ali Benjamin , The Thing About Jellyfish

17 " It's peculiar how no-words can be better than words. Silence can say more than noise, in the same way that a person's absence can occupy even more space than their presence did" -Suzy "

― Ali Benjamin , The Thing About Jellyfish

18 " A person can become invisible simply by staying quiet. "

― Ali Benjamin , The Thing About Jellyfish

19 " Who knows. Maybe everybody's end isn't the day they actually die, but the last time anyone speaks of them. Maybe when you die you don't really disappear, but you fade into a shadow, dark and featureless, only your outlines visible. "

― Ali Benjamin , The Thing About Jellyfish

20 " The more fragile the animal, the more it needs to protect itself. So the more venom a creature has, the more we should be able to forgive that animal. They're the ones that need it most. And, really, what is more fragile than a jellyfish, which doesn't even have any bones? "

― Ali Benjamin , The Thing About Jellyfish