Nora & Kettle Quotes

“A collection of events. Each on its own is harmless. But together, one after the other, they change the world.”
― Lauren Nicolle Taylor, Nora & Kettle

“My dreams are wishes. My nightmares are truths.”
― Lauren Nicolle Taylor, Nora & Kettle

“His eyes are intense. Dark. They look like they’ve seen things I don’t want to know about.”
― Lauren Nicolle Taylor, Nora & Kettle

“I look up and watch the bad parts of me shrinking to dots in the wide blue.”
― Lauren Nicolle Taylor, Nora & Kettle

“The kind of cruelty Ernie showed today scares me, reminds me and warns me not to forget what men are capable of. And not even bad men. Just ordinary men. The”
― Lauren Nicolle Taylor, Nora & Kettle

“There’s always been a war inside me. The Japanese side and the American side can’t be friends, but not because of their skin color, nor their culture. They just know nothing about each other. I clench my teeth. I don’t want to think about this anymore, my kind is a mystery and there’s no solving it. I”
― Lauren Nicolle Taylor, Nora & Kettle

“My father watches me, his eyes crinkling in disgust with every movement. I have his ears, nose, and hair…and he can’t stand it. I wish I could scrub out my face and start again. Not because it would protect me, but because it would mean I wouldn’t see him in my reflection.”
― Lauren Nicolle Taylor, Nora & Kettle

“In his eyes are the reflections of the beating I didn’t know how to stop, and even though my heart remembers, the rest of me would like to forget.”
― Lauren Nicolle Taylor, Nora & Kettle