18+ Jackson Pearce Quotes On Education, Perseverance And Persistence

All I've learned in today's Shakespeare class is: Sometimes you have to fall in love with the wrong person just so you can find the right person. A more useful lesson would've been: Sometimes the right person doesn't love you back. Or sometimes the right person is gay. Or sometimes you just aren't the right person. Thanks for nothing, Shakespeare. — Jackson Pearce

It's just that it's impossible to be a broken or whole person. You can only be a person. You can only exist, you can only belong to yourself, and you can only be responsible for your own happiness or belonging or whatever. That broken-part-piece-whole thing is just a trick of the mortal mind. — Jackson Pearce

I became an ifrit to save the lives of my fellow jinn. What kind of life saver would I be if I let you sit here and wither away in paradise? Just an obstacle. Just an obstacle. I meet the ifrit's eyes. What happened to all your talk about birds and fish having nowhere to live? The ifrit shrugs. I suggest you start holding your breath, my friend, he says, then pushes through the hearing room doors. — Jackson Pearce

How could I possibly try to pretend the sunlight doesn’t exist, now that it’s taken so much of me? — Jackson Pearce

I'm friggin' awesome! So screw the haters! — Jackson Pearce

I wanted to know what it was like to be a drug addict, and have an eating disorder, and have a loved one die, and fall in love. I saw my friends going through these things, I saw the world going through these things, and I needed to understand them. I needed to make sense of them. Books didn’t make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books, and it was books that showed me there is light at the end of the tunnel. — Jackson Pearce

My sister has the heart of an artist with a hatchet and an eye patch. And I, we both now know, have a heart that is undeniably, irreparably different. — Jackson Pearce

The cruelest thing, hope, the way it strings you along, the way it makes you believe. — Jackson Pearce

Maybe all you can do, when your world is burning, is hold on to the thing you love the most. — Jackson Pearce

I am confident, I am capable, and I will not wait to be rescued by a woodsman or a hunter. — Jackson Pearce

I like libraries. It's a comfort that knowledge can be save for so long. That what we learn can be passed on. — Jackson Pearce

Mortals always want something more- they wish for money, but what they're really after is to be carefree. Power when what they really want is control. Beauty when they want love. Sometimes they know it, sometimes they don't — Jackson Pearce

Making fake promises while wearing a fancy dress... that isn't enough. Promises take more work than that. — Jackson Pearce

Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from judgement. — Jackson Pearce

This is why Caliban was a punishment. I realize it now - it's a beautiful, perfect world of nothingness. No connection, no longing, no . . . love. A world we're trapped in until we're needed here, a world we're condemned to while everyone we might care about forgets us. — Jackson Pearce

I follow, always, because its the only time when our hearts beat in perfect harmony, the only time when Im certain, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that we are one person broken in two. — Jackson Pearce

Books didn't make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books. — Jackson Pearce

Knowledge does have a way of making you an outcast. — Jackson Pearce

Life Lessons by Jackson Pearce

  1. Jackson Pearce teaches us to be brave and take risks in order to find our true selves and our own unique paths.
  2. She encourages us to be strong and independent, and not to be afraid to stand up for ourselves and our beliefs.
  3. Her stories also remind us to be kind and compassionate to others, and to recognize the beauty and strength in diversity.
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