Remains To Be Seen Quotes

“The greatest minds are like film, they take the negatives and develop themselves in darkness...”
― Brandi L. Bates, Remains To Be Seen

“In order to grow, I promise you'll have to let go of some habits. 10 times out of 10, they'll be the habits you're most in love with.”
― Brandi L. Bates, Remains To Be Seen

“You settle for less, you get less.”
― Brandi L. Bates, Remains To Be Seen

“Drama does not just walk into our lives. Either we create it, invite it, or associate with it.”
― Brandi L. Bates, Remains To Be Seen

“Do little things every day that no one else seems to want to do, be patient, and success will find you.”
― Brandi L. Bates, Remains To Be Seen

“Be selective in your battles...”
― Brandi L. Bates, Remains To Be Seen

“But believe it or not, I really do like to read. I don't think anyone can ever pull the wool over your eyes if you stay prayed up and read. Frederick Douglass said that no man can be a slave if he has knowledge.”
― Brandi L. Bates, Remains To Be Seen

“No one is born with equality. We all come here with varying degrees of opportunities, qualities, strengths, weaknesses, IQ, etc.”
― Brandi L. Bates, Remains To Be Seen

“Understand: I don't ever want to be equal to any other being. I always want to be greater...in all things, in all circumstances.”
― Brandi L. Bates, Remains To Be Seen

“Like the Bermuda triangle, she swallowed her victims whole.”
― Brandi L. Bates, Remains To Be Seen

“Although this man spoke pure fluent ghetto, she liked his spirit. She could tell he was attracted to her, and that he was being ever careful with his words.”
― Brandi L. Bates, Remains To Be Seen

“The reason why many people remain on the bottom is because they play to 'not lose', as opposed to playing to win at all costs.”
― Brandi L. Bates, Remains To Be Seen

“THE NEXT DAY WAS RAIN-SOAKED and smelled of thick sweet caramel, warm coconut and ginger. A nearby bakery fanned its daily offerings. A lapis lazuli sky was blanketed by gunmetal gray clouds as it wept crocodile tears across the parched Los Angeles landscape.
When Ivy was a child and she overheard adults talking about their break-ups, in her young feeble-formed mind, she imagined it in the most literal of essences. She once heard her mother speaking of her break up with an emotionally unavailable man.

She said they broke up on 69th Street. Ivy visualized her mother and that man breaking into countless fragments, like a spilled box of jigsaw pieces. And she imagined them shattered in broken shards, being blown down the pavement of 69th Street.

For some reason, on the drive home from Marcel’s apartment that next morning, all Ivy could think about was her mother and that faceless man in broken pieces, perhaps some aspects of them still stuck in cracks and crevices of the sidewalk, mistaken as grit.

She couldn’t get the image of Marcel having his seizure out of her mind. It left a burning sensation in the center of her chest. An incessant flame torched her lungs, chest, and even the back door of her tongue.

Witnessing someone you cared about experiencing a seizure was one of those things that scribed itself indelibly on the canvas of your mind. It was gut-wrenching. Graphic and out-of-body, it was the stuff that post traumatic stress syndrome was made of.”
― Brandi L. Bates, Remains To Be Seen

“Remember to remember: sometimes your adversary is your biggest asset. Where would David be without Goliath? Jesus without Judas?”
― Brandi L. Bates, Remains To Be Seen