Jill Alexander Essbaum Quotes

I do believe that dreams are interpretable. Analysis and praxis have taught me so.

I think it's important to let each thing you write teach you how to write it. You must listen to what you do. Let it be in control. I don't step in until I know what it demands of me.

I'm suspicious of dreams in books too. Because they're boring and too self-serving.

I’ve never been nearly as alone as I always say I am

There is a correlation between the severity of a person’s moods and a lack of self-knowledge.

Even the loveliest shoulders can bear but so much.

Shames the shadow of love she thought

But there are times to talk to the dead, times when the dead want to talk.

A secret's safest hiding place is in the open.

Even the ugliest swan is still more beautiful than the loveliest crown on the fence, Anna thought

The deepest sleep is meant only for children and perfect fools.

Solitude was her anchor. A familiar misery, and anymore the safest, most sensible approach.

Four simple chambers.A thousand complicated doors.One of them is yours.

A man can smell a woman's sadness

Is that not always the case? Given any two people in a relationship, one will always love more, the other less. Right?

It doesn’t matter whether you believe in ghosts. The ghosts believe in you.

There are no accidents, Anna. Everything correlates. Everything connects. Every detail bears a consequence. One instant begets the next. And the next. And the next.

But pain is an impatient customer. It wouldn't be long before it demanded attention.