Joy Doubled Quotes

“Dupe was quiet for a moment. Then: “When I came to this country, they gave me a form to prove I existed. I filled it in with a pen that had no ink.” She smoothed a paper with her good hand. “We have always had to press harder.”
― Katie-Jo Gracie, Joy Doubled

“It must be nice to live in a world where your child’s brain is considered a default setting. It must be nice to never have had to negotiate your child’s name down to something the register could hold. It must be nice to walk through every door without checking first which ones are locked.”
― Katie-Jo Gracie, Joy Doubled

“She turned her head to look at Ayomide, her gaze fierce and ancient. “They tried to make us feel like ghosts in our own homes. But look around you, Ayomide. We are still here. That is a fact they cannot edit out.”
― Katie-Jo Gracie, Joy Doubled

“They came for us too,” Dupe said eventually, her voice a low, steady anchor in the storm. “In a different uniform, in a different country, but with the same eyes. Eyes that look for a reason to break what they cannot control.”
― Katie-Jo Gracie, Joy Doubled

“The thing about providing is that, from the outside, it looks like a simple thing. You go. You work. You bring back what you earned. The family eats. The lights stay on. The mortgage, or in their case the rent, which is its own kind of mortgage, money that builds nothing and belongs to someone else, gets paid.
From the inside, it is a different kind of thing entirely.”
― Katie-Jo Gracie, Joy Doubled