Jennifer Arnett Quotes

But every tomorrow has led to today— to us being alone, hungry, and cold on an unknown island somewhere in the South Pacific.
Jennifer Arnett
The thing about the ocean is that the surface won’t always tell you what is going on underneath.
Jennifer Arnett
We don’t vanish without a trace. We are not like animals, content with burrows in the ground. We are not very skilled at survival without clothing or tools. Our feet are soft, our skin is easily cooled, and our stomachs are too weak to drink water straight from a stream. We must create in order to survive. We build cities, aqueducts, and shields, for we must in order to have an edge over the beasts of the field. And so, wherever humans have tread their covered feet, their path never vanishes without a trace.
Jennifer Arnett
A billion stars above us coat the sky white. It would have been beautiful back home, but not here. Here it is the ever present reminder that we are all alone and insignificant.
Jennifer Arnett
It isn’t always the treasure that drives men down deep into the sea; it’s something else, something unexplainable, even to them.
Jennifer Arnett
Given that media has become fast-paced, readers now want books that show the action and don’t just tell you what is happening. Modern readers don’t want three pages of descriptions of a farmhouse. They want to hear the door’s creak quiet the chirping of crickets out in the cornfield, they want to feel the cool air drift through the house, then they want to see the shadow of a man, gun drawn, standing over the bed of his disloyal lover.
Jennifer Arnett
The mind is weak, and it must be mastered, controlled. The body, it knows no master save for instinct and, unfortunately, it is built for terminal suffering.
Jennifer Arnett