Wild and Crooked Quotes

“There's more than one way to be a fragile person.”
― Leah Thomas, Wild and Crooked

“But that's the thing - outsiders lump kids with CP under the same umbrella, and that's another umbrella under the enormous parasol of congenital disorders, which sits under the gargantuan black canopy of disability. We're sorted into categories, but we can be nothing alike. I don't even mean how some of us are hemiplegic and others are paraplegic, or how some of us are spastic and others aren't, or some of us have learning disabilities and others don't. I mean on a perso al level, we're all different people.
That should be obvious right?
Camp Wigwah is where I realized my disability is like any other part of a person - eyes or ears or teeth or height - and that it's a variable. I have poor eyesight, and the muscles on my right side are tense threads that make my knees collide. But Karen Yuen's in a wheelchair, and Ali Sniridan spasms every evening.
I started thinking of CP as a part of me, and I stopped resenting it so much. It seems dumb to ask your eye color to change. An AFO isn't bad when you think of it like a pair of glasses. I love my glasses; they're one fashion accessory that demands no explanation.
That's how the space brace came about. Mom and Tamara were trying to make me love myself. But it's harder when it's someone else's decision.”
― Leah Thomas, Wild and Crooked

“I have much human thinking to do, which is no simple thing. My conscience is a carefully cultivated thing.”
― Leah Thomas, Wild and Crooked

“When I was six, I fell off my bike. I hit my head, and my soul was knocked out of me.”
― Leah Thomas, Wild and Crooked

“When I was five, I hit my head and my soul flew out of me.”
― Leah Thomas, Wild and Crooked

“When you were three—and you won’t remember this—you fell off your bike and smacked your head.”
― Leah Thomas, Wild and Crooked

“I’m angry at him, at myself, even at Kalyn for planting a seed I can’t water.”
― Leah Thomas, Wild and Crooked

“The straight and narrow’s for bad drivers.”
― Leah Thomas, Wild and Crooked

“Accepting yourself as you are is an act of civil disobedience.” —Francesca Martinez”
― Leah Thomas, Wild and Crooked

“There're always more truths than one. Knowing who I am, or thinking I might know? That's only half a truth. Because my identity will always be halfway informed by the world. It has to be informed by something. Usually we define ourselves by loving things, Doc Martens or Shakespeare or music or whatever. But if the things we love are other people, those people define us. And then they're a part of you, and they change what you know about yourself.”
― Leah Thomas, Wild and Crooked

“Usually we define ourselves by loving things, Doc Martens or Shakespeare or music or whatever. But if the things we love are other people, those people define us. And then they’re part of you, and they change what you know about yourself.”
― Leah Thomas, Wild and Crooked

“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”
― Leah Thomas, Wild and Crooked