Jennifer Armentrout Quotes
'Don't Look Back' is my first YA contemporary mystery/thriller. It's been described as 'Black Swan' meets 'Pretty Little Liars'.
Quotes to Explore
-
My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.
-
I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
-
Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
-
We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
-
I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
-
It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
-
Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
-
I've got a general callout with the Caribbean world in which I'm interested in helping in any way to get their well-written good stories out to the rest of the world. I am really interested in helping those stories get to a completion and public viewing.
-
Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
-
It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.
-
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
-
I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
-
I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
-
Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.
-
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
-
Many environmental battles are won by delaying a destructive project long enough to change the conversation - to allow new economic, political and social dynamics to emerge.
-
I have 10 children. I've got my eighth grandchild in the oven with Kimberly. I have all these wonderful kids.
-
I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.
-
I would love to do something like 'Fishing With John.'
-
Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.
-
When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.
-
I've done pretty well in my career, and I've watched colleagues who have spent most of the paychecks they receive on shoes and cars rather than bricks and mortar, and that's not me.
-
I may repeat 'Do as you would be done by' till I am black in the face, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbor as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbor as myself till I learn to love God;and I cannot learn to love God except by learning to obey him.
-
'Don't Look Back' is my first YA contemporary mystery/thriller. It's been described as 'Black Swan' meets 'Pretty Little Liars'.
