Bananapants Quotes

“please pretend for a moment that I’m allowed to have feelings about my life, irrespective of how easy I’ve had it or how hard other people have it in comparison.”
― Penny Reid, Bananapants

“Incompetence was everywhere. EVERYWHERE! It was one of the constants in life: death, taxes, change, cockroaches, and incompetence.”
― Penny Reid, Bananapants

“Do you think God stays in heaven because he, too, lives in fear of what he’s created here on earth?” — Spy Kids 2 (2002)”
― Penny Reid, Bananapants

“It’s a situation where there is no perfect answer. Everyone does the best they can and there’s no right answer, no easy solution, and sometimes everyone is various shades of wrong in retrospect. It’s just a bunch of people loving each other, trying their hardest, and hoping for the best.”
― Penny Reid, Bananapants

“Even when I didn’t ask. Even when I thought I didn’t want to see them, showing up mattered.”
― Penny Reid, Bananapants

“What’s wrong with wanting to feel loved and treasured, and wanting the most important people in your life to also feel loved and treasured? Why does our society insist on pushing children away from their families? Why must we all become islands of independence at eighteen? Rude!”
― Penny Reid, Bananapants

“Laughter is a protest scream against death, against the long goodbye. It’s a defense against unhappiness and depression.”
― Penny Reid, Bananapants

“I can only tell myself, ‘Get through it one more time. One more day, one more hour, one more minute.’ And when any measurement of time feels too long, I’ll tell myself to get through one more breath. A breath in. A breath out. Living becomes breathing for fourteen hours until I take my nighttime medication.”
― Penny Reid, Bananapants

“I couldn’t control every facet of our future, nor could I always avoid embarrassment and discomfort. But I could take one day at a time and be an active participant in life. And if that felt overwhelming, Des had taught me to take one hour at a time, then one minute, then one breath.”
― Penny Reid, Bananapants

“Here. Think of it this way: Davis is a house I inherited, okay? An old house. It needs constant maintenance. I need to keep a close eye on it. Some people think it’s charming and has a weird but cool personality. Some people find it ugly and don’t like how much custom millwork it has. Like wood carvings of angels engaging in fornication with clouds, sheep farmers posing naked and seductively with farm tools, super odd shit you don’t see anywhere else that leaves you questioning what the hell the carpenter was thinking. Or smoking.”
― Penny Reid, Bananapants

“I’d work on the bitterness with my psychologist ASAP. That shit needed to stop. If I didn’t deal with it, it would keep slipping out and getting in the way, and I wanted a relationship with my dad more than I wanted to be right about being wronged.”
― Penny Reid, Bananapants

“encouraged the happy butterflies. Butterflies are fleeting and yet their short lifespan doesn’t make them any less beautiful.”
― Penny Reid, Bananapants

“Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little?” ― Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath”
― Penny Reid, Bananapants

“Seems fair. I can’t think when I’m looking at you.”
― Penny Reid, Bananapants

“It’s all smoke and mirrors and pretending, honey,” she went on. “Everyone is in various stages of falling apart. All the time.” Stepping forward, she cupped my cheeks between her palms, like she used to do when I was little. “Some people are just better than others with their smoke and mirrors, and how often and how well they lie to others. And to themselves.”
― Penny Reid, Bananapants

“There are certain people who you will always, always love.” — Selena Gomez, Attributed”
― Penny Reid, Bananapants

“asking for a father’s permission was an outdated, sexist custom, and he would never agree to let his daughter marry someone who believed in an outdated, sexist custom.”
― Penny Reid, Bananapants

“It’s all weirdos, trying to do their best, and looking like fools until they meet that person who makes them feel exceptional instead of foolish.”
― Penny Reid, Bananapants

“You can’t tell me a society can function with only private couriers. That’s completely improbable. Mail would get lost all the time without a regulatory oversight body, and there’s nothing fun about lost mail.”
― Penny Reid, Bananapants

“as someone who loves you and knows you, I want to make sure you hear these words, because I never want you to doubt your own value, or what you bring to the table. You are not less than. You are, and always have been, greater than.”
― Penny Reid, Bananapants

“Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.” ― Vincent van Gogh, Attributed; The Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam”
― Penny Reid, Bananapants

“Ineptitude is not just underestimated in depth and breadth, it is more dangerous to society than bad intentioned competence, I’m afraid.”
― Penny Reid, Bananapants

“Hyperactive type is an inconvenience for everyone, thus everyone is motivated to “fix” it. Inattentive type is only an inconvenience for the person suffering from it, so it often gets written off as laziness, or ditziness, or flakiness. Good times.”
― Penny Reid, Bananapants

“Well, society had told me to go fuck myself repeatedly from a very young age, so—as far as I was concerned—society could go do the same.”
― Penny Reid, Bananapants

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.” ― Theodore Roosevelt, The Strenuous Life”
― Penny Reid, Bananapants

“When I’d been a teenager, I used to overhear my mom telling her entire knitting club about what was going on with me. I understood now what I didn’t then, that she’d needed to talk about it, to process it, to ask for advice. For better or worse, the presentation of my disorder had also been traumatic for her and my sister, maybe even my dad. But at the time it felt like an invasion of privacy and it made me feel like garbage.”
― Penny Reid, Bananapants

“But brutally cutting her out and being selfish were the only things I could have done for my own survival.”
― Penny Reid, Bananapants

“But being told something is true and accepting it as truth are separated by a mountain, one I was still in the process of climbing.”
― Penny Reid, Bananapants

“I cut Ava out specifically because I needed to find a reason within myself to stay in the game with the cards I’d been dealt. I couldn’t make someone else the reason I lived, or didn’t.”
― Penny Reid, Bananapants

“As described to me, his symptoms sounded like a list of traits describing a typical human, especially a typical teenage human. These “symptoms” made no sense to my brain because if they were symptoms of mental illness, shouldn’t all teenagers be diagnosed as having bipolar?”
― Penny Reid, Bananapants