Skye Falling Quotes

“Besides, nobody wants to feel they have to hide, do they? Everyone wants to feel welcome, wherever they are. Everyone wants to feel they belong.”
― Mia McKenzie, Skye Falling

“I try to imagine what a normal person, who was good at human-people stuff, would say,”
― Mia McKenzie, Skye Falling

“Let down is inevitable. But if you close the distance, so is connection. So is joy.”
― Mia McKenzie, Skye Falling

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.’ Viktor Frankl”
― Mia McKenzie, Skye Falling

“You just never conceive that there will come a time when you’re not young anymore, when your whole life won’t be in front of you. You know?”
― Mia McKenzie, Skye Falling

“But I’ve never had an easy time with women who stand by watching their men treat people badly. And think they, themselves, are not culpable. White women have a long history of that.” Not just white women.”
― Mia McKenzie, Skye Falling

“There are no pictures of bad hair days or crippling depression or uncertainty about a life misspent. Ain’t no emojis for that type of shit.”
― Mia McKenzie, Skye Falling

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.’ Viktor Frankl said that.”
― Mia McKenzie, Skye Falling

“I envy you having gay friends at that age. I probably would have gotten into less trouble if I had.” “You think gay friends are less trouble?” “I just mean…I think some of the trouble I got into was because I was trying to resist ‘gay shit,’ ” she says. “Queer feelings.”
― Mia McKenzie, Skye Falling

“I watch her move to take off the hat, and I am overwhelmed with the memory of being a twelve-year-old girl in constant battle, over what I saw when I looked in the mirror and what I feared other people would see.”
― Mia McKenzie, Skye Falling

“I don't like it when other people break my habits for me.”
― Mia McKenzie, Skye Falling

“People can be tricky when they're trying to get something from you. Especially if that something is love.”
― Mia McKenzie, Skye Falling