The Truth Is Quotes

“We are all little snow globes that are getting shaken too hard. We're getting unglued. Cracked. The water is spilling out and none of us know if we can breathe actual air.”
― NoNieqa Ramos, The Truth Is

“You want the answer to who you are to be multiple choice, fool? The answer is a three-part essay question. And remember, there is NO time limit.”
― NoNieqa Ramos, The Truth Is

“Is happiness just bait to lure you through long life? Can happiness have longetivity? Or is it like bubble gum? You chew on it, suck all the sweetness out. Someone bursts your bubble, or you blow too big a bubble and end up with it stuck all over your face.”
― NoNieqa Ramos, The Truth Is

“I mean imagine that shit. You bust your ass as a single parent, and your kid treats the absentee parent like a rock star. But love is like water and it slides over the smooth places. Sinks into the cracks.”
― NoNieqa Ramos, The Truth Is

“Hell is now. Saying it happens later is a power play.”
― NoNieqa Ramos, The Truth Is

“Maybe life isn't a novel all the time. Where we're always trying to see what happens in the end. Maybe sometimes it's poetry. Every syllable of living counts.”
― NoNieqa Ramos, The Truth Is

“The way I see it, love is just like your period. One day you're bleeding out of nowhere and it hurts, and that mess goes on for mostly the rest of your life.”
― NoNieqa Ramos, The Truth Is

“I need to be happy. Happiness the best complication there is.”
― NoNieqa Ramos, The Truth Is

“I mean the poetry of differential calculus. Calculating points in time and place. The infinite movement we make in time, moving forward, but never eating zero. Integral caucus, where we don't head to zero -- we head to fucking infinity, man. Get as close as we can. But again we never get there. Because in nature we never get an absolute. Absolutes are bullshit.”
― NoNieqa Ramos, The Truth Is

“Emptiness isi the fullest thing there is.”
― NoNieqa Ramos, The Truth Is

“Maybe life isn't a novel all the time. Where we're aways trying to see what happens in the end. Maybe sometimes it's poetry. Every syllable of living counts.”
― NoNieqa Ramos, The Truth Is

“Mornings to me are like holy water to the devil.”
― NoNieqa Ramos, The Truth Is

“I don’t know what scares me more, falling in love with someone or my mother finding out.”
― NoNieqa Ramos, The Truth Is

“My heart feels like a car on a full tank getting pumped with gas. All it would take is one match. I’m panicked. Normally, I know what that means. My hypothalamus is trying to take over. The flight-or-fight response wants to kick in. But what do you call the opposite? Flying toward something in a panic? Shit, I feel like a bird about to hit a windowpane. I need to retreat. BREATHE.”
― NoNieqa Ramos, The Truth Is