B > B's Quotes

“Thank you for letting me love you. Thank you for loving me back. Thank you for staying, I know it was hard sometimes. I hope you now live free.”
― Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

“She is fascinated by how much romantic love can soften a hard life, highlight the best of you, not condemn the worst of you.”
― Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

“It is quite a revelation to discover that the place you wanted to escape to is the exact same place you escaped from. That the prison wasn't the place, but the perspective.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Knowledge is a funny thing, Isaac. It informs by exposing. It shows you precisely how much you don’t know.”
― Daniel Black, Don't Cry for Me

“There aren’t enough sonnets for friendship. Not enough songs for the kind of love not born of blood or body but of time and care. They are the ones we choose to laugh and cry and live with. When lovers come and go, friends are the ones who remain. We are each other’s constants.”
― Kennedy Ryan, This Could Be Us

“a woman who wants more and realizes she deserves it is a dangerous thing.”
― Kennedy Ryan, This Could Be Us

“Imagine learning to swim by reading and memorizing the steps of a front crawl but never jumping into a pool. Why do we teach our students this way?”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

“We need to think about the fact that we are all more than the worst thing we have done.”
― Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

“He was a poor man in a criminal justice system that treats you better if you are rich and guilty than if you are poor and innocent.”
― Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

“...the moral arc of the universe bends toward justice, but justice needs help. Justice only happens when good people take a stand against injustice. The moral arc of the universe needs people to support it as it bends. And yes, it also needs people to pick a side.”
― Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

“You become an agent of your own existence the minute you stop blaming others for what they did to you. Those who hurt us cannot heal us. That's our job.”
― Daniel Black, Isaac's Song