Quotes from book

The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“There are many words and definitions I have never lost. But some I am only just beginning to truly understand.”

“Father says it will come in time. “Time heals,” he says.
I don’t tell him that I don’t know what time is.”

“I think that maybe forgiveness is like change - it comes in small steps. (256)”

“Are the details of our lives who we are, or is it owning those details that makes the difference?”

“Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side can't see the other. They don't know they are connected.”

“I know you have the patience of a rapidly decomposing turd.”

“Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed.”

“Where we are going, I don't know. It doesn't seem to be the place that is important but the steps in between.”

“… and time becomes a forgotten detail.”

“Pieces. Isn't that what all of life is anyway? Shards. Bits. Moments. Am I less because I have fewer, or do the few I have mean more?”

“There is something about her eyes. Eyes don't breathe. I know that much. But hers look breathless.”

“I still cry on waking. I'm not sure why. I feel nothing. Nothing I can name, anyway. It's like breathing - something that happens over which I have no control. (6)”

“Do certain events in our lives leave a permanent mark, freezing a piece of us in time, and that becomes a touchstone that we measure the rest of our lives against?”

“I thought grandmothers had to like you. It’s a law or something.”

“I don't want five hundred billion neural chips. I want guts.”

“My timing is off. But I had to get it out. Some things you have to tell, no matter how stupid they may sound. Some things you can't save for later. There might not be a later.”

“Awareness
There is a dark place.
A place where I have no eyes, no mouth. No words.
I can't cry out because I have no breath. The silence is so deep I want to die.
But I can't.
The darkness and silence go on forever.
It is not a dream.
I don't dream.”