Sonya > Sonya's Quotes

“I can't muster a smile. Even with the knowledge that it's dark outside and light up here, it's hard to believe that he can see us. We should be invisible. We are so alone. Mabel and I are standing side by side, but we can't even see each other. In the distance are the lights of town. People must be finishing their workdays, picking up their kids, figuring out dinner. They're talking to one another in easy voices about things of great significance and things that don't mean much. The distance between us and all of that living feels insurmountable.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“The trouble with denial is that when the truth comes, you aren't ready.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“But it turns out that even the fiercest denial can't stop time.”
― Nina LaCour

“I loved going to the library. It was the first time I ever saw Black newspapers and magazines like JET, Ebony, the Baltimore Afro-American, or the Chicago Defender. And I’ll never forget my librarian.”
― John Robert Lewis, March: Book One

“Maybe you are across an ocean, sitting in a small house overlooking a field, reading this book. Maybe you, too, have lost a grandfather. Or a cat. I imagine you sitting there, holding this book, reading words once typed thousands of miles away: It will always be a special memory for me. Please know you were loved and that I/we will always remember you.”
― Michael Gustafson, Notes from a Public Typewriter

“My Dear,
Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it's much better to be killed by a lover.
-Falsely yours”
― Charles Bukowski

“It's easy for most to look back in time and praise those who fought for the rights of others. The protests of history are much easier to accept than protests of the present. History doesn't require anything from us. It doesn't even require us to know it. The present? It requires our all.”
― Dave Connis, Suggested Reading

“If you don't realize the importance and responsibility of the freedoms we've been given, then you won't realize what freedom actually is.”
― Dave Connis, Suggested Reading

“Push back. Don't just accept things. Time doesn't change things. Humans change things. Time adapts.”
― Dave Connis, Suggested Reading