Stop Pretending Quotes

“Ready or not, here I come
I'm so tired of this dumb game of hide and seek
Olly olly oxen free
Show yourself, you're scaring me
Come out, come out, where ever you are
You've taken this thing way too far”
― Sonya Sones, Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy

“Madame V
begins the lesson
by reading aloud the first stanza
of a famous French poem:


Il pleure dans mon coeur
Comme il pleut sur la ville;
Quelle est cette langueur
Qui penetre mon coeur?


Then she looks up
and without any warning
she calls on me to translate it.
I swallow hard, and try:

"It's raining in my heart
like it's raining in the city.
What is this sadness
that pierces my heart?"

Saying these words out loud,
right in front of the whole class,
makes me feel
like I'm not wearing any clothes.”
― Sonya Sones, Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy

“The golden moment when I’m not yet awake enough to remember that there are things I would rather forget.”
― Sonya Sones, Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy

“there's
this golden moment
when the sun
licks through the gauze
fluttering at my window
warming my eyes to open

this golden moment
when I'm not yet awake enough
to remember
that there are things
I would rather
forget”
― Sonya Sones, Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy

“Did I give it away
with my eyes?
They're looking at me
like they know.”
― Sonya Sones, Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy

“I turn to thank the nurse.
She winks at me coyly,
and suddenly sticks out her tongue.

Just as the doors close,
I see that she's drooling,
and rocking, and rocking and rocking.”
― Sonya Sones, Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy