Jenni Williams Quotes

Life is suffering. Life is war, and sacrifice. Life is victory.

Fear can keep you obedient, or the need to stay as free as you can.

I’d burn the bloody tree down myself if u thought it would bring you back’ he said quietly. ‘Everything is so hopeless anyway, why shouldn’t we be happy for a bit? We could have don’t that, couldn’t we? I think so it would have been messy but… Instead my mind gives me this’ He gestured around at the dream desert, the dream sky. ‘A fucking dream of you. As if that would be enough.

A fire that burns in secret, a lethal conflagration that you can only discover when its too late to save anyone.

Not born of love, or affection, but a simple terrible need not to feel alone, just for a little while.

Judging by the constellations just starting to glint into life, the scent of the wind and the texture of the earth... I would say we're precisely in the middle of nowhere.

I was empty, just a thing for gathering dust, and now I am full of something, and if that causes me to make poor decisions, then I will live with it. Or die with it. I don't care.

What you brought back, darling, was the truth. Which is rarely comfortable and never painless, but often, ultimately, worth knowing.

All people need, in my experience, is a little push in the right direction. Or a giant kick up the arse. I am always happy to provide either.

We formed WOZA as a movement to show a peaceful way women of all colours and class could restore dignity for the people of Zimbabwe.

Beginnings are very elusive things, almost as elusive as true endings.

This pain is not a weakness. It is strength. Our grief binds us. Do you feel it?

Just between you and me, I've never crawled up a monster's arse before. It's quite exciting.

Show me a people who don't have a bloody history.

Words are always important,’ said Jolnir. ‘Even normal, non-magical words, in the right place, can change the world.