Sasha Masha Quotes

“I think we've each got a mystery inside of us. And as people, our job is to respect that mystery. Give it room to breathe, to feed it, to take it out for lunch sometimes, whatever. We're all part of a whole big picture, and if we're not doing our best to unfold the strange somethings inside of us, we're not doing right by everybody else. If we're not unfolding our hearts, we're holding them back. We're flinching, and that's how we hurt people. That's how me make ourselves, and the whole world, smaller.”
― Agnes Borinsky, Sasha Masha

“I feel like teenagers get a bad rap for changing things up all the time. We're fake or we're insincere or we're superficial. But if you do it to please yourself, what's insincere about that?”
― Agnes Borinsky, Sasha Masha

“Real people are comfortable being themselves and don't have to think about what they want. They laugh out loud and they eat when they're hungry and they say what they're thinking no matter who is listening. And the paradox of it is the harder you try to be real, the deeper you know that you're not.”
― Agnes Borinsky, Sasha Masha

“I feel like I was on autopilot for most of my life. Like I just took for granted the person the world told me I was and I feel like it might have been easier to shake that up a little when I was a kid."
"How old are you now, ninety-two?"
"No, I know I was just..."
"I don't know about easy or not easy, it's just different."
"Well not easy, but..."
"You're just doing this now, Sasha Masha. Now is your time, and you're doing it, so what else do you have to worry about?”
― Agnes Borinsky, Sasha Masha

“I've had my heart broken too many times to think that visibility means everything. I don't think it changes who steps up and who stands back. [...] For some people visibility is about saving a life, and for other people it's about making things more comfortable. But again my dears, it's not about comfort. Safety, yes please. But comfort, comfort is overrated. As far as I'm concerned, life is about being alive and being connected to our fellow creatures. Full stop. And you're generation is making it worse with your serious faces and safe spaces and goddamn trigger warnings... Hello my darlings, loosen up! Live a little. Such a dick. Tell a joke. Fall in love. Show up to start trouble when it's necessary and don't whine when the world doesn't hold your hand.”
― Agnes Borinsky, Sasha Masha

“Representation is chump change, darling. I'm sorry to break it to you. People who hold power don't like to put themselves at risk. And that's why Queer people have generally been the visionaries. Because when your everyday life is a risk, you start to think about it all differently. You start to realize that organizing your days around keeping yourself protected is dumb as shit and that there's a whole universe of meaning and connection when you get beyond that.”
― Agnes Borinsky, Sasha Masha