Jasper Jones Quotes
"It’s like I’ve got to crawl out of my own eggshell and emerge."
"I don’t want to have one of those bum lives where you just always expect your luck to be fucked because that’s the way it’s always bin."
"And it seems the older they get, the more brazen and desperate folks become, and they lie about things that don’t even matter."
"I think Jasper Jones speaks the whole truth in a town of liars."
"It’s just information. It doesn’t dredge that poor girl from the depths of the dam, doesn’t breathe her back to life."
"I feel like a spoiled little bastard, about to crawl into my safe nest while Jasper Jones shoulders his burden alone."
"Cricket is the most repetitive enterprise in history."
"You’re not the king of opinion. It just means you’re foolish and narrow-minded."
"The fact that with enough dedication and desire, we could all be Batman."
"The more you have to lose, the braver you are for standing up."
"Sometimes at school her heart beats too fast and she has to sit down."
"If you get me out of here, I’ll tell you everything."
"You either turn around and finish your job or you will spend the rest of the summer in your room."
"Luck’s got nuthin to do with it. It’s all about acting. It’s all about how you comport yerself at the table. You got to give nothing away."
"It’s what you come with and what you leave with. And that’s all I got."
"Everyone ages. Everyone can learn a trade and pay taxes and have a family. But that’s not growin up. It’s about how you act when your shit gets shaken up, it’s about how much you see around you."
"It’s a lonely feeling, but it sort of makes me happy too."
"You’re on your own. And that can make you feel either lonely or powerful."
"Somethin else I could never understand is how people, ages ago, could look up at the moon and still reckon the world was flat."
"I reckon prayer is just trustin in it, havin faith in it, just askin meself to be tough. And that’s all you can do."
"But what I want to know is, why can’t we think like that now about the earth?"
"It’s all just a big Easter Island. A giant snow dome."
"When you’re born, you either luck out or you don’t. It’s a lottery. Tough shit, or good on yer. But from there, it’s all up to you."
"Sorry means you feel the pulse of other people’s pain as well as your own, and saying it means you take a share of it. And so it binds us together, makes us as trodden and sodden as one another."
"Sorry is a lot of things. It’s a hole refilled. A debt repaid."
"Sorry doesn’t take things back, but it pushes things forward. It bridges the gap."
"Sorry is a sacrament. It’s an offering. A gift."
"Sorry means you leave yourself open, to embrace or to ridicule or to revenge."
"Sorry is a question that begs forgiveness, because the metronome of a good heart won’t settle until things are set right and true."
"Sorry is sadness, just as knowing is sadness."
"Sorry is sometimes self-pity. But Sorry, really, is not about you. It’s theirs to take or leave."
"Sorry doesn’t take things back, but it pushes things forward."
"Seeing him struggle cuts straight through me. My eyes sting and I have to look away."
"You did a great thing today. And no one can take that off you. You understand?"
"I shuffle as he pours out three plum-colored measures."
"Because now Jasper Jones has to leave Corrigan before it breaks him."
"I don’t know how my parents can distance themselves from what just happened out there so easily."
"It’s an expression," says my mother. "You two aren’t right in the head."
"Because Jeffrey Lu was a hero today and when he got to the top they dragged him back to the bottom."
"Because those men struck his father, over and over, and they destroyed something beautiful."
"Because a girl goes missing in this town and it’s Jasper Jones who is held and threatened and belted for days."
"The hard work’s done, they can’t escape. So if you want them dead, just drain the water out."
"But you’ve never had beer." "So? So how can you feel like something you’ve never tasted?"
"I know precisely what I’m about to see, but I edge closer anyway."
"Suddenly you’re afraid and you don’t know what you’re afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?"
"I killed her. It’s all my fault. I killed Laura."
"I wish I didn’t have to. I want the stillness back."
"It had been happening all year, even on the coldest of Corrigan nights."
"She longed to follow them, but she knew she shouldn’t."
"Like a geyser. Like a burst dam, I can’t hold it."
"Something was up. It had been strange in the Wishart house for days."
"And then the silence was swift, sweeping in like backwash."
"She didn’t know what to do. She was shaking, like her limbs were not her own."
"Because later that evening there was a scuffle in Laura’s room, right next to her, and that’s when Eliza became afraid."
"It’s the knowing. It’s always the knowing that’s the worst."
"Thisiswhathappened. Like a cork from a bottle. A train with no brakes."
"She was more sallow and sapped and silent than ever."
"She’d disappeared. Gulped and swallowed by something enormous and unseen."
"And everything else conspired to make her fall."