Life Lessons Quote by Jennifer Egan — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“It was the hat. He looked sweet in the hat. How could a man in a fuzzy blue hat have used human bones to pave his roads?”

“When the clock stops on a life, all things emanating from it become precious, finite, and cordoned off for preservation. Each aspect of the dead person is removed from the flux of the everyday, which, of course, is where we miss him most. The quarantine around death makes it feel unlucky and wrong--a freakish incursion--and the dead, thus quarantined, come to seem more dead than they already are.... Borrowing from the dead is a way of keeping them engaged in life's daily transactions--in other words, alive.”

“That's what death is, Danny thought: wanting to talk to someone and not being able to.”

“Rich children are always blond, Jocelyn goes. It has to do with vitamins.”

“Evaluate yourself, and if necessary, begin anew. Check each one of your views, reassess your goals and realign your actions with your core values.”

“Still I rise, not as who I was, but as who I was always meant to be.”

“Everyone thinks "ordinary" is easy and all, but how many of them would actually fit into the so-called smooth road the word implied? It sure was a lot harder for me, someone who was not born ordinary. That didn't mean I was extraordinary. I was just a strange boy wandering around somewhere in between. So I decided to give it a try. To become ordinary.”

“The corrupt are into rituals, whereas the virtuous are spiritual.”

“Life is a tightrope walk. One has to balance the do's and don'ts.”

“As you go on with your life, always remember the things that are good in you. They're your gifts. As long as you have these things, you'll find happiness, and you'll make the people around you happy.”