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“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes for societies as well as for individuals.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

“We must go on, because we can't turn back.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

“Dead men don't bite”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

“-I am not sure whether he's sane.
-If there's any doubt about the matter, he is.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

“It was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world. I lay there, trembling and listening, in the extreme of fear and curiostiy, for, in those dozen words, I understood that the lives of all the honest men aboard depended on me alone.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

“Thems that die'll be the lucky ones.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

“It is up to you to demand people see you as you, or they will almost always decide you are someone else.”
― Ryan La Sala, The Honeys

“I realize this fits into the way I've always seen myself, which is: art, attempted, though often spoiled by the demands of another's taste.”
― Ryan La Sala, The Honeys

“Death isn’t the end of a life, but the division of it. When someone dies, their soul scatters into all the things they’ve ever given away. Love. Bruises. Gifts. You struggle to piece together what’s left—even the things that hurt—just to feel haunted.”
― Ryan La Sala, The Honeys

“I will be a ruin to consume.”
― Ryan La Sala, The Honeys

“I have never prayed until Caroline died, and now that she’s gone, I only have one prayer. Just one. Wherever you are, let it be bright. I hope it’s light that greets us, in the end, after everything.”
― Ryan La Sala, The Honeys

“The way they talk about themselves—with such frankness—it feels like all people are wet clay, all the shapes that define us self-imposed. I realize this fits into the way I’ve always seen myself, which is: art, attempted, though often spoiled by the demands of another’s taste. It makes me wonder what shape I’d be if I’d never met another human being.”
― Ryan La Sala, The Honeys

“What beauty in our reality is simply an unfathomable refraction across space, light, and time?”
― Ryan La Sala, The Honeys

“I want to imagine them out there, together in some unknowable brightness. Maybe they’re watching, maybe they’re not. But I hope they’re not alone.”
― Ryan La Sala, The Honeys

“That’s why we’re going.” “You’re going. I’m stopping you.” “You’re doing a very bad job.”
― Ryan La Sala, The Honeys

“Caroline wore detachment fashionably, like the slick skin of a seal, the grip of reality sliding off so that she always appeared cool and unbothered in the hot, frantic world. I’m not like her – I catch on everything. Every small want grows out of me, like thorns, making me impossible to embrace.”
― Ryan La Sala, The Honeys

“Less to burn in the event a rogue gender-fluid camper decides to go on a flaming crusade against the binary, I guess”
― Ryan La Sala, The Honeys

“If I'm out of my own control, I'm within someone else's— that's what Mom used to tell us. She meant that the moment we lose our grip on a situation, it becomes an opportunity for someone else to take advantage of us. I heard it another way. I heard: It is up to you to demand people see you as you, or they will almost always decide you are someone else.”
― Ryan La Sala, The Honeys

“... We experience reality as a three-dimensional projection in our brains. Our geometric instincts are 3D. So things in higher dimensions are kinda impossible for us to even visualize. That doesn't mean other dimensions aren't real though. It just means we aren't able to comprehend them.”
― Ryan La Sala, The Honeys

“Is everything an act to you?"
"Everything is an act to everybody.”
― Ryan La Sala, The Honeys