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Top 30 Jessica Francis Kane Quotes (2024 Update)

Jessica Francis Kane Quote: “Perhaps a best friend is someone who... holds the story of your life in mind. Sometimes in music a melodic line is so beautiful the notes feel inevitable; you can anticipate the next note through the long rest. Maybe that is friendship. A best friend holds your story in mind so notes don’t have to be repeated.”

1. “Perhaps a best friend is someone who... holds the story of your life in mind. Sometimes in music a melodic line is so beautiful the notes feel inevitable; you can anticipate the next note through the long rest. Maybe that is friendship. A best friend holds your story in mind so notes don’t have to be repeated.”

— Jessica Francis Kane

Jessica Francis Kane Quote: “Neighbor seems to me a flexible word. You can say “She’s my neighbor.” and people will think you mean she’s your friend. But if something goes wrong, you can say, “Oh I don’t really know her. She’s just my neighbor,” and everyone still knows what you mean.”

2. “Neighbor seems to me a flexible word. You can say “She’s my neighbor.” and people will think you mean she’s your friend. But if something goes wrong, you can say, “Oh I don’t really know her. She’s just my neighbor,” and everyone still knows what you mean.”

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Jessica Francis Kane Quote: “Why do I like gardening? Because I worry I’ve inherited a certain hopelessness, a potentially fatal lack of interest, that I’m diseased with reserve. Making a garden runs counter to all that. You can’t garden without thinking about the future.”

3. “Why do I like gardening? Because I worry I’ve inherited a certain hopelessness, a potentially fatal lack of interest, that I’m diseased with reserve. Making a garden runs counter to all that. You can’t garden without thinking about the future.”

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Jessica Francis Kane Quote: “Is it real? I once asked Amber. What? she said. Your life! The things that happen to you. Is it real or are you just really good at making it all into stories? She said, I don’t understand the difference.”

4. “Is it real? I once asked Amber. What? she said. Your life! The things that happen to you. Is it real or are you just really good at making it all into stories? She said, I don’t understand the difference.”

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Jessica Francis Kane Quote: “When a friend is suffering, it seems you have three options: You can sit silently with her, you can make suggestions, or you can share heartache from your own life. None of the three is as simple as it sounds. I knew someone in college who was so full of advice it was exhausting to share problems with her. You left with a small treatise of self-improvement ideas and the urge to lie down.”

5. “When a friend is suffering, it seems you have three options: You can sit silently with her, you can make suggestions, or you can share heartache from your own life. None of the three is as simple as it sounds. I knew someone in college who was so full of advice it was exhausting to share problems with her. You left with a small treatise of self-improvement ideas and the urge to lie down.”

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Jessica Francis Kane Quote: “Forgiveness without understanding is like faith without proof.”

6. “Forgiveness without understanding is like faith without proof.”

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Jessica Francis Kane Quote: “It seems the trees’ plight is to always be underappreciated by humans while working the hardest of any plant on earth for them. We cut them down, we poison them, we introduce disease and destructive pests. But we also plant them when someone is born, we plant them when someone dies. We want them to measure and commemorate our lives, even as the way we live hurts them.”

7. “It seems the trees’ plight is to always be underappreciated by humans while working the hardest of any plant on earth for them. We cut them down, we poison them, we introduce disease and destructive pests. But we also plant them when someone is born, we plant them when someone dies. We want them to measure and commemorate our lives, even as the way we live hurts them.”

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Jessica Francis Kane Quote: “Midway through my fortieth year, I reached a point where the balance of the past and all it contained seemed to outweigh the future, my mind so full of things said and not said, done and undone, I no longer understood how to move forward. I was tipped backward and wobbly, my balance was off, and this made sense to me. A life seemed so long, I couldn’t see how anyone proceeded under the accumulated weight of it.”

8. “Midway through my fortieth year, I reached a point where the balance of the past and all it contained seemed to outweigh the future, my mind so full of things said and not said, done and undone, I no longer understood how to move forward. I was tipped backward and wobbly, my balance was off, and this made sense to me. A life seemed so long, I couldn’t see how anyone proceeded under the accumulated weight of it.”

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Jessica Francis Kane Quote: “When we were finished eating, I showed Leo some of the other campus gardens. At the crescent rose bed, I stopped to smell a floribunda rose. Leo waited, then leaned over to smell the exact same flower, as if, despite all the blooms around us, I had found the best one.”

9. “When we were finished eating, I showed Leo some of the other campus gardens. At the crescent rose bed, I stopped to smell a floribunda rose. Leo waited, then leaned over to smell the exact same flower, as if, despite all the blooms around us, I had found the best one.”

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Jessica Francis Kane Quote: “How can we live in a time when social media makes us friends with people all over the world, but our sense of neighbor is shrinking?”

10. “How can we live in a time when social media makes us friends with people all over the world, but our sense of neighbor is shrinking?”

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Jessica Francis Kane Quote: “People feel sorry for the housebound, but it can be a position of strength, a refusal to meet the world on its terms... The recluse decides when and to whom she will speak, access is limited.”

11. “People feel sorry for the housebound, but it can be a position of strength, a refusal to meet the world on its terms... The recluse decides when and to whom she will speak, access is limited.”

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Jessica Francis Kane Quote: “My grandfather... The last thing he said to my mother was “Your mother loves you”... Years later it occurred to me that when someone says what my grandfather did, what they mean, what would be far more accurate, is “She is trying to love you as best she can.” This might be okay with you, or it might now be what you need at all... and now I am forty years old... I don’t have a daughter and I don’t know if I ever will. But if I do, we will not carry this sadness forward. I’m tired of holding it.”

12. “My grandfather... The last thing he said to my mother was “Your mother loves you”... Years later it occurred to me that when someone says what my grandfather did, what they mean, what would be far more accurate, is “She is trying to love you as best she can.” This might be okay with you, or it might now be what you need at all... and now I am forty years old... I don’t have a daughter and I don’t know if I ever will. But if I do, we will not carry this sadness forward. I’m tired of holding it.”

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Jessica Francis Kane Quote: “I’m aware not everyone feels the way I do about trees, but I have no idea why not.”

13. “I’m aware not everyone feels the way I do about trees, but I have no idea why not.”

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Jessica Francis Kane Quote: “Because certain things only come into focus when a person is gone. It’s sad but true. You need memory and loss to polish your thoughts.”

14. “Because certain things only come into focus when a person is gone. It’s sad but true. You need memory and loss to polish your thoughts.”

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Jessica Francis Kane Quote: “She was the kind of person who had multiple copies of the books she loved most. That way, she said, she could always give one away.”

15. “She was the kind of person who had multiple copies of the books she loved most. That way, she said, she could always give one away.”

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Jessica Francis Kane Quote: “It seems to me that your oldest friends can offer a glimpse of who you were from a time before you had a sense of yourself.”

16. “It seems to me that your oldest friends can offer a glimpse of who you were from a time before you had a sense of yourself.”

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Jessica Francis Kane Quote: “Quite simply: Without friendship, you become Grendel. Many people don’t marry and many don’t have children. Some people might not know their mother or father, and a lot of people don’t have siblings. But any person who has lived for any length of time has had a friend. Except Grendel, and he became the first monster in English literature.”

17. “Quite simply: Without friendship, you become Grendel. Many people don’t marry and many don’t have children. Some people might not know their mother or father, and a lot of people don’t have siblings. But any person who has lived for any length of time has had a friend. Except Grendel, and he became the first monster in English literature.”

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Jessica Francis Kane Quote: “Allegedly warmth, cheeriness, friendliness and strength are distinct from one another and your likability is largely determined by how much of each you project. The definition of warmth is how easily you convey you have something in common with another person.”

18. “Allegedly warmth, cheeriness, friendliness and strength are distinct from one another and your likability is largely determined by how much of each you project. The definition of warmth is how easily you convey you have something in common with another person.”

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Jessica Francis Kane Quote: “Love stands apart; love lets you come to it.”

19. “Love stands apart; love lets you come to it.”

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Jessica Francis Kane Quote: “Better to take the train, where I can watch the trees rush by, though so many were in bad shape from pruning and storms, they started to make me sad, Do trees regret their lot? The ones in cities or growing along forgotten margins? Do they dream of dark nights and quiet forests?”

20. “Better to take the train, where I can watch the trees rush by, though so many were in bad shape from pruning and storms, they started to make me sad, Do trees regret their lot? The ones in cities or growing along forgotten margins? Do they dream of dark nights and quiet forests?”

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Jessica Francis Kane Quote: “When little, friends play house in order to pretend to be family, which is ironic because the beautify of friends is that they are chosen, not given. Should siblings, play friends? And so we ‘make’ friends or ‘find’ them? Emily Dickinson thought that the best verb was ‘enact’.”

21. “When little, friends play house in order to pretend to be family, which is ironic because the beautify of friends is that they are chosen, not given. Should siblings, play friends? And so we ‘make’ friends or ‘find’ them? Emily Dickinson thought that the best verb was ‘enact’.”

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Jessica Francis Kane Quote: “Sometime in her forties, my mother stopped moving forward. Somehow when we weren’t looking, she must have curtsied, performed a little shuffle sidestep, and exited stage right. In retrospect, she’d been rehearsing for some time. She went up to bed often without saying good night, or stayed home from family outings with ambiguous symptoms.”

22. “Sometime in her forties, my mother stopped moving forward. Somehow when we weren’t looking, she must have curtsied, performed a little shuffle sidestep, and exited stage right. In retrospect, she’d been rehearsing for some time. She went up to bed often without saying good night, or stayed home from family outings with ambiguous symptoms.”

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Jessica Francis Kane Quote: “I told her avarice, envy, pride, lust, and wrath harm others, and gluttony is bad for your health. But sloth is just a willingness to move slower than others and that’s not a crime. I’ve always thought despair should be the seventh deadly sin instead.”

23. “I told her avarice, envy, pride, lust, and wrath harm others, and gluttony is bad for your health. But sloth is just a willingness to move slower than others and that’s not a crime. I’ve always thought despair should be the seventh deadly sin instead.”

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Jessica Francis Kane Quote: “I was interested in figuring out who I was with other people, and why that person was hard to be. I remember my mother, not a great keeper of friends herself, used to say, “If you’re comfortable with yourself, you’ll never be lonely,” which didn’t feel like the whole story.”

24. “I was interested in figuring out who I was with other people, and why that person was hard to be. I remember my mother, not a great keeper of friends herself, used to say, “If you’re comfortable with yourself, you’ll never be lonely,” which didn’t feel like the whole story.”

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Jessica Francis Kane Quote: “Halfway through life, I wasn’t sure what I’d made.”

25. “Halfway through life, I wasn’t sure what I’d made.”

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Jessica Francis Kane Quote: “We live in a time when everyone gets a medal and all villains have heartbreaking backstories. No one thinks evil is intrinsic anymore, just someone making a really bad choice.”

26. “We live in a time when everyone gets a medal and all villains have heartbreaking backstories. No one thinks evil is intrinsic anymore, just someone making a really bad choice.”

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Jessica Francis Kane Quote: “She was very opinionated, but everyone seemed to agree that the opinions were well informed, insightful, and usually for the benefit of someone else’s problem.”

27. “She was very opinionated, but everyone seemed to agree that the opinions were well informed, insightful, and usually for the benefit of someone else’s problem.”

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Jessica Francis Kane Quote: “Many scientists believe trees can befriend each other, intertwining their roots to share resources and bending their branches to make sure each gets enough sun. Some think that a pair can become so close that when one of the trees dies, the other one dies, too.”

28. “Many scientists believe trees can befriend each other, intertwining their roots to share resources and bending their branches to make sure each gets enough sun. Some think that a pair can become so close that when one of the trees dies, the other one dies, too.”

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Jessica Francis Kane Quote: “The best way to travel is to surrender a little bit of your personality, and I was enjoying not being the most difficult one.”

29. “The best way to travel is to surrender a little bit of your personality, and I was enjoying not being the most difficult one.”

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Jessica Francis Kane Quote: “We don’t get to write from scratch the whole story of our lives. We are given certain plot points that must be incorporated.”

30. “We don’t get to write from scratch the whole story of our lives. We are given certain plot points that must be incorporated.”

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