Danny > Danny's Quotes

“The world had changed a great deal, but the little rules, contracts and customs had not, which meant the world hadn't actually changed at all.”
― Cho Nam-Joo, 82년생 김지영

“I'm tired and angry at me. For letting myself get smaller and smaller in the hopes that he would notice me more. But how can someone notice you if you keep getting smaller?”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“Then he pulled out a handgun and shot me in the chest. I was standing on the lawn and I fell. The bullet hole opened wide and my heart rolled out of my rib cage and down into a flower bed. Blood gushed rhythmically from my open wound,
then from my eyes,
my ears,
my mouth.
It tasted like salt and failure. The bright red shame of being unloved soaked the grass in front of our house, the bricks of the path, the steps of the porch. My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“Everyone has that moment I think, the moment when something so momentous happens that it rips your very being into small pieces. And then you have to stop. For a long time, you gather your pieces. And it takes such a very long time, not to fit them back together, but to assemble them in a new way, not necessarily a better way. More, a way you can live with until you know for certain that this piece should go there, and that one there.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“She’s right, and I thought that Lily and I had come to that very agreement, although never explicitly: that we would focus on my health until I was better and then our lives could be taken off hold. But now she’s dating. Moving on. Without me.”
― Diana Clarke

“Humans are capable of evil because we created it. We burdened ourselves with right and wrong, with good and evil. And it is in knowing this evil that we can be.”
― Diana Clarke

“Hate, I found out on the ride home, was a less embarrassing way to say fear.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“I took a self-esteem quiz on the Internet and scored a -22.”
― Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

“Sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you've been ruined.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“I used to think he was my hero. Wow, and I thought Mom was the villian. It's crazy how they switched places. I follow behind her, thinking of all the times Daddy bulldozed over Mom, and how many times I rooted for him. I was on his side, because he was always on my side, but I guess I didn't realise how maybe I shouldn't cheer for my daddy to silence my mom—despite the fact that I didn't usually like what she was saying.”
― Joya Goffney, Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl: A Coming of Age YA Love Triangle Romcom

“one planet that’s lost its way in the race for development, that showed up at the stadium after all the medals had been handed out, when all that was left was the consolation prize of survival.”
― Yoss, A Planet for Rent

“The Ada could look back on her life and see, like clones, several of her standing there in a line. This terrified her, because if there were so many of her, then which one was she? Were they false and her current self real, or was her current self false and it was one of the others, lost in the line, who was the real Ada?”
― Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

“The fact that they have families and parents,” Eunsil retorted, “is why they shouldn’t do these things, not why we should forgive them.”
― Cho Nam-Joo, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

“She loves an undeserving man. It’s a sorrow most women experience at some point in their lives, whether it’s a father who neglects or a son who forgets or a husband who betrays. These men let us down and we pull ourselves back up, hopefully with the help of other women who love us in ways that heal.”
― Kennedy Ryan, This Could Be Us

“So, to dream, you must let your mind wander as it will, across all the network of your root system, across the oceans and into the skies. Do not cease, do not try, do not empty yourself, simply let your mind be what it is. Through this, perhaps, a tree might dream. If you can dream, then in each dream you can experience an entire life, and in all those lives surely you shall eventually find the one that you wish to live; and in the finding of it, you will have already become it.”
― Isabela Oliveira, Xenocultivars: Stories of Queer Growth

“To transform yourself entirely is simple: you must dream, as clearly and lucidly as if it were real, and in that dream you must live a life so entirely that when you wake you will not know if you have awoken from a dream or entered one.”
― Isabela Oliveira, Xenocultivars: Stories of Queer Growth

“And I realise I am afraid of earth, the way it holds us, making useless things out of wings.”
― Kei Miller, There Is an Anger that Moves

“If you say that you’re not the type of person to feel comfortable in this situation, you’re telling yourself how to feel the next time.”
― Joya Goffney, Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry

“There are enough closed doors and glass ceilings in the world. My comfort zone shouldn’t be one of them.”
― Joya Goffney, Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry

“For every man exists in the world the way a body exists in water: the moment you leave, the space you occupied will close over. What is left is not even the shape of your body, but the memory of it. There is no such thing as return. We leave one place. We arrive at another. But the person who arrives is never the person who left. We grow. We change.”
― Kei Miller, The Same Earth

“I am going to make the scientific experiment of trying to get some and put it in myself and make it push and draw me and make me strong. I don't know how to do it, but I think that if you keep thinking about it and calling it perhaps it will come.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“The only way to soothe an angry God is to make sure you tiptoe quietly.”
― Tia Levings, A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy