Stop Me If You've Heard This One Quotes

“The things we do for love, I think. The awful, terrible things we out ourselves through in order to be loved in return.”
― Kristen Arnett, Stop Me If You've Heard This One

“I wonder if it’s possible to get an ulcer from capitulating to patriarchal bullshit.”
― Kristen Arnett, Stop Me If You've Heard This One

“But hey, that’s humanity! It’s silly and pointless, aside from punctuations of brightness afforded by love and friendship.”
― Kristen Arnett, Stop Me If You've Heard This One

“But I’m not sure we know what “normalcy” is anymore. Is it normal to be a queer person living in a place with a government that actively tries to harm you? Is it normal to know that you might attend a gay club and be gunned down in the middle of the night? But if you don’t return to “normal,” what kind of life are you living? If there’s no joy”
― Kristen Arnett, Stop Me If You've Heard This One

“It's like whiplash. That's the only way to describe it. Over and over again, violence, and then we're expected to immediately return to normalcy. But I'm not sure we know what "normalcy" is anymore. Is it normal to be a queer person living in a space with a government that actively tries to harm you? Is it normal to know that you might attend a gay club and be gunned down in the middle of the night? But if you don't return to "normal", what kind of life are you living? If there's no joy, then what's the point?”
― Kristen Arnett, Stop Me If You've Heard This One

“Family are the people we choose to keep. And I'm choosing to let this one go, with love.”
― Kristen Arnett, Stop Me If You've Heard This One

“I'm my own audience, first and foremost. Shouldn't all things funny start out with a joke that's just for me?”
― Kristen Arnett, Stop Me If You've Heard This One

“Rituals establish where we sit inside the order of things.
Human beings love habit; we are creatures of it, littering our days with to-do lists and scores of checked boxes. Routines give our complicated lives a semblance of meaning, regardless of whether our customs are something simple or incredibly complex.”
― Kristen Arnett, Stop Me If You've Heard This One