Bryce > Bryce's Quotes

“Ignorance is a choice. Hatred is a choice. Violence is a choice. But someone's existence is never a choice, or a fault, and it's certainly not a crime.”
― Chris Colfer, A Tale of Magic...

“She finally inhaled, and I thought she might be done, but, nope, she just kept on steamrolling. 'And if you ever, ever speak to my son that way again, I swear I will show up at your front door and you'll see what hell looks like. Our boys - your son - deserve better than your primitive, backward, abusive way of thinking. I hope Ben knows that he is beautiful and perfect and worthy just as he is, and' - her voice went up a notch - 'AND IF HE'S LISTENING, HE ALWAYS HAS A SAFE PLACE HERE.'
Then she hung up, and she looked wiped out, but there was also this terrifying, wild energy around her. Her gaze narrowed on me. 'No one treats my son that way and gets away with it. No one.”
― Michael Leali, The Civil War of Amos Abernathy

“Vi and Olivia spun off. Antonio hesitated, and Seb saw the glassy eyes, the quivering lip, the dawning realization.
'Really?" said Antonio. 'You mean it?'
He pulled Antonio in for a kiss. It was short, but it was enough for now.
'Yes,' said Seb. 'I mean it.'
Right then, Sebastián Rojas got to see a new expression on Antonio's face.
The one where he was both surprised *and* delighted.”
― Mark Oshiro, That Way Madness Lies

“Sometimes it's hard to tell the truth when you're afraid it'll end a friendship.”
― Melissa Caruso, The Quicksilver Court

“You might forget many things in your life, but you never forget kindness. Like love, it stays with you . . . forever.”
― R.J. Palacio, White Bird

“Evil will only be stopped when good people decide to put an end to it. It is our fight, not God's.”
― R.J. Palacio, White Bird

“Kho dresses like a Sith dipped in glitter. There’s no way they should be able to quietly assassinate anyone.”
― Alyssa Wong, Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #4

“Men, it seems, experience the merest breeze of equality as something like a catastrophic hurricane -- there's a similar exaggeration involved when majority groups feel under attack and consider themselves practically overwhelmed as the victims of racism show the least sign of standing up for themselves. Apart from resistance to renouncing their privilege (whether as men or as white people), this reaction displays the inability of the dominant to to comprehend the experience of the dominated, but perhaps also, despite their indignant protestations of innocence, an appallingly guilty conscience, acknowledging something along the lines of: 'We are hurting them so badly that, if we give them the tiniest room for maneuver, they will destroy us.”
― Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

“If we're lucky. If we're very lucky, the universe will send us the people we need to survive.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“Gina? Susie? I'm going to tell you something that I have never, ever told anybody. I have a confession to make: I AM A HETEROSEXUAL WOMAN.'
Gina and Susie looked at my mother and then each other -- then cracked up laughing. 'Mrs. Mendoza, you're a hoot.'
Even though she herself was laughing, she said, 'Why is that funny? Because what I just said sounds ridiculous. But what I told you is absolutely true. I have never uttered those words. And do you know why? I've never had any reason to utter those words. Because no one has ever asked me.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“There are no reasons to hate other people -- especially other kinds of people. We make up reasons why people are less human than we are. We make up reasons and then we believe those reasons and then those reasons become true and they are true because now we believe they are facts and we even forget where it all started -- with a reason we made up.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“Humility is in short supply in this country, and it would be a good thing if we went in search of it.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“You don't get extra credit for doing what you're supposed to do.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“You're like the water, Ari. I can't live without water.'
'You're like the air, Dante. I can't live without the air.'
'You're like the sky.'
'You're like the rain.' We were smiling. We were playing a game. And we would both win. There were no losers in this game.
'You're like the night.'
'You're like the sun.'
'You're the ocean.'
'You're the dawn.'
'I love you, Aristotle Mendoza.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“He kissed me and I kissed him back. Let the universe see. Let the sky see. Let the passing clouds see. He kissed me. Let the plants of the desert see. Let the desert willows, let the desert mountains, let the lizards and the snakes and the desert birds and roadrunners see. I kissed him back. Let the sands of the desert see. Let the night come -- and let the stars see two young men kissing.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“We all have to learn to be brave. We can't allow them to take away our love.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“One crisp dusk when the skies are a red befitting my mood, I say goodbye to the azaan that comes from the east where the masjid is. After night eases into all corners previously owned by light, the people at the mandir start their puja. The music of the sitar and the accompanying voices raised in prayer fill the air. I stand outside in the garden, alone for once, and the frogs skirt the area I stand in as if they too know the state of my heart. I look up at the sky. I don't have a camera to capture the heavens heavy with stars, so I look my fill and try to impress the image into my heart. I know there will be other skies and other stars, but nothing will ever compare to these.”
― Nafiza Azad, Come On In

“Oh what power she wielded over the male species. I hope she did some good and smashed the patriarchy with it.”
― Sara Farizan, Come On In

“I do not want to imagine a world in which you are not you.”
― Kiersten White, Now I Rise

“What's this boyo like?' Orin asked. 'In your opinion?'
'Clever. Conniving. Charming.'
'I may have a crush on him already,' Orin said.”
― Lydia Kang, Cataclysm

“Yaddle dropped her hands, and the two guards fell hard to the boarding ramp, a few meters away from Cippa.
'I choose to fight,' Yaddle said. She gently picked up Cippa with the Force, levitating her into the ship. As she passed the two guards, she said, 'That is what you get for shooting a child.”
― Lydia Kang, Cataclysm

“As stars are born and die,' Creighton said, 'so does times move forward. Relentlessly so. And yet we fight. We will never stop fighting for light and life in this galaxy.”
― Lydia Kang, Cataclysm

“Respect my existence or expect my resistance.”
― Steven Salvatore, Can't Take That Away

“It matters which side we choose. Even if there will never be more light than darkness. Even if there can be no more joy in the galaxy than there is pain. For every action we undertake, for every word we speak, for every life we touch—it matters. I don’t turn toward the light because it means someday I’ll ‘win’ some sort of cosmic game. I turn toward it because it is the light.”
― Claudia Gray, Master and Apprentice