D.R. Perry > D.R.'s Quotes

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the “Dawn Treader”

“I followed her to the library, feeling like Princess Leia. Instead of Obi-Wan, this snarky girl was my only hope.”
― D.R. Perry, Bearly Awake

“Caring is like oxygen. Everyone needs it, and it's a catalyst that lets amazing things happen.”
― D.R. Perry, Speaking with Care

“we don't let the hiccups define our ability to breathe.”
― D.R. Perry, Familiar Strangers

“Why can't people just be kind?”
― D.R. Perry, Speaking with Care

“Even if I wasn’t so annoying, I’d always been shunned because of what I packed up in the old noggin. I had a totally deserved reputation for being a brain and an attitude. That’s why I went to a school so far from home, to get away from all the people I’d pissed off just by opening my big mouth.”
― D.R. Perry, Bearly Awake

“This was what Alex’s mother had never managed to grasp. Mira loved art and truth and freedom. She didn’t want to be a part of the machine. But the machine didn’t care. The machine went on grinding and catching her up in its gears.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“He’d told himself he was giving her a chance, being fair to this girl who had washed up on his shore. But he’d let himself think of her as someone who had made all of the wrong choices and stumbled down the wrong path. It hadn’t occurred to him that she was being chased.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“I know you’re used to dealing with people who can’t just, but I can,”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“Maybe good things were the same as bad things. Sometimes you just had to let them happen.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“doing business was a terrible, demonic way to describe the feeling of being needed. It wasn’t doing business. It was being a mitzvah.”
― Sacha Lamb, When the Angels Left the Old Country

“Perhaps being a Light of God is difficult when you’re in a dank box on the ocean.”
― Sacha Lamb, When the Angels Left the Old Country

“You are learning new things,” said the rebbe. “That’s what a journey is for. Hush, now. It’s all right.”
― Sacha Lamb, When the Angels Left the Old Country

“Its heart was heavier with the weight of the young worker’s words. But should a heart not be heavy, in a world full of injustice?”
― Sacha Lamb, When the Angels Left the Old Country

“Jack once joked that music to me is like nicotine to a heavy smoker. I’m not a smoker, so I can’t exactly say if that’s true, but sometimes I feel like I’d die without music.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“Growing up, I realized quite quickly that people hate being called racist more than they hate racism itself.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“I can ‘fix' the kinks in my hair, but not the kinks in this whole system that hates me and Devon and everyone that looks like us.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“Dad couldn’t even defend me when his family would say racist things to me when I was a child. He’d just watch silently as Grandma would mock me and the way I looked. Said nothing when his family no longer wanted Mom and me to visit. Why would he defend me now?”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“Don’t you ever wish you could go back?” Ellis murmurs, gaze turned up toward the chandeliers; their light glitters off the lenses of her glasses. My gaze snaps away from the kettle, back to her. “To some other time,” she says, “when things were a little wilder. When the rules were a little less clear.”
― Victoria Lee, A Lesson in Vengeance

“I wasn’t afraid of the dark. I was afraid of the light—the future.”
― Elisabeth Thomas, Catherine House

“nowhere else had she felt as mute as she did in a noisy crowd.”
― Marina Dyachenko, Vita Nostra

“Glance, inflection, voice—all these thin threads, the antennae pointing into space, informed people of indifference or empathy, calmness, anxiety, love .”
― Marina Dyachenko, Vita Nostra

“It’s only fear, Sasha. Fear the General. Fear the Emperor who shapes the reality. You should buckle up.”
― Marina Dyachenko, Vita Nostra

“The problem started at home. It started with the parents who always pushed for more, more, more. Why were they never satisfied? The problem lay with this school, with all these institutions. Walls too high to climb, doors shut to all except the most privileged. Lies about not seeing color. Lies about merit-based education, about hard work translating into success.”
― Katie Zhao, How We Fall Apart

“That’s just what translation is, I think. That’s all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they’re trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“As a child she knew her motherland as a place of violence and barbaric power struggles, for that is how they spoke of it in France, and that was what her exiled mother chose to believe. ‘We are lucky,’ whispered her mother, ‘that we survived it.’ But her mother did not survive France.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“She says it’s too easy to call people evil instead of their choices, and that lets people justify making evil choices, because they convince themselves that it’s okay because they’re still good people overall, inside their own heads.”
― Naomi Novik, A Deadly Education

“This is what you’re not allowed to see. The school system pulled this out of the curriculum. Parents complained it was ‘too disturbing.’ Probably worried someone will recognize their grandpa’s or mother’s face.” “Why are they hitting them like that?” “These men were called the Greensboro Four. They were doing a ‘sit in’ to protest the racial segregation policy at a store’s lunch counter.” Maddy frowned. “But why were they sitting where they weren’t supposed to?” “Because sometimes you have to, like John Lewis said, ‘Get into good trouble, necessary trouble,’ for your voice to be heard.”
― Tiffany D. Jackson, The Weight of Blood

“Because if she had been who she was meant to be from the start, if she’d been allowed to just be herself, in fact if everyone involved was allowed to be their true authentic selves without fear of recourse or ridicule, none of this would have ever happened.”
― Tiffany D. Jackson, The Weight of Blood