No One Is Coming to Save Us Quotes

“When you love somebody you decide what you can take and what will kill you and work backward from what will kill you.”
― Stephanie Powell Watts, No One Is Coming to Save Us

“The sting of not having or not having enough bores a pain black hole that sucks all the other of life’s injuries into one sharp stinging gap that you don’t need a scientist to remind you may be bottomless.”
― Stephanie Powell Watts, No One Is Coming to Save Us

“She wasn't about to 'come on'. Men tried to make you believe in your own crazy. If you are hysterical they don't have to see you as an equal, look you in the eye like a person they have to respect. It suited them to make you think that all the shit they pulled, all the lies they told, were in your head. The only crazy part was that most women did believe their men or chose to pretend. Most kept on believing right up to the point the men walked out the door or killed them. (178)”
― Stephanie Powell Watts, No One Is Coming to Save Us

“Everyone says that reading is a good thing, but Ava had started to wonder. People look at you with suspicion if they see you reading, like the reading itself shames or indicts them, like it is a plot against them.”
― Stephanie Powell Watts, No One Is Coming to Save Us

“You can't let people know what you dream- especially if you can't get it. You knowing that they know opes a wound in you, an embarrassing naked space that you can't let just anybody witness.”
― Stephanie Powell Watts, No One Is Coming to Save Us

“You think love leaves? You think you are ever free? Then you are a child or a fool. Flee in the dark, spend a lifetime away, never say its name, never say its name, but one day, or if you are very unlucky, every day, it will whisper yours. And, you know you want to hear your name. Say it, love. Please say it. (7)”
― Stephanie Powell Watts, No One Is Coming to Save Us

“You knowing that they know opens a wound in you, an embarrassing naked space that you can’t let just anybody witness.”
― Stephanie Powell Watts, No One Is Coming to Save Us

“But whatever you do, don’t stay still, you’ll get stuck. That will unravel you.”
― Stephanie Powell Watts, No One Is Coming to Save Us

“Life is sad, but there's some good moments and you have to live for those. That's all we got. Sylvia couldn't remember the last time she waited for a good moment instead of holding on through the bad ones for the next wave of bad to shock her into a different kind of sadness.”
― Stephanie Powell Watts, No One Is Coming to Save Us

“The sting of not having or not having enough bores a pain black hole that sucks all the other life's injuries into one stinging gap that you don't need a scientist to remind you may be bottomless”
― Stephanie Powell Watts, No One Is Coming to Save Us

“The pain of the loss, the true loss of youth, the change of life, THE CHANGE, the terrible sure feeling of being shunted out of the everyday progress of living, the move from a player on the stage to a member of the audience—until finally, the fear that crept and inched into your mind, then your soul, that your life had amounted to too little. Like some version of that joke, life was terrible and in such small portions. And finally, the realization that you hadn’t performed enough or well enough and now everyone you loved would suffer. Why hadn’t anyone said something? Of course older women had said in their way. By way of warning and encouragement, they had told Sylvia not to get old. “Don’t get old!” they’d said. Like anyone ever in the history of time had had any intention of that.”
― Stephanie Powell Watts, No One Is Coming to Save Us

“He was dumb, that’s all there was to it. Pretty didn’t keep him from being a dumb ass. Henry”
― Stephanie Powell Watts, No One Is Coming to Save Us

“What you got and can count on your fingers can give you a cushion, a bank account, a security against universal losses. Nobody has to know the hollow spaces you shock yourself by living through.”
― Stephanie Powell Watts, No One Is Coming to Save Us

“That love we have for mothers has to be cut with vinegar, and maybe even acid. Otherwise, it will overwhelm us. She will overwhelm us.”
― Stephanie Powell Watts, No One Is Coming to Save Us

“I know you're here because you think this is home. But you can't go home because there is none. It's just you trying to make it in a place that holds some memory for you. That's not the same as home. People can be like home sometimes and that's if you are very, very lucky. Are you hearing me? (101)”
― Stephanie Powell Watts, No One Is Coming to Save Us

“You get yourself caught up with the police, in the system anything can happen to you. You know that don’t you?” “I know.” “I’m”
― Stephanie Powell Watts, No One Is Coming to Save Us

“The mission of high school was to come from money and have great hair, but blend in and be invisible and envied by everyone. “I”
― Stephanie Powell Watts, No One Is Coming to Save Us

“You think love leaves? You think you are ever free? Then you are a child or a fool. Flee”
― Stephanie Powell Watts, No One Is Coming to Save Us