Everything Is Going to Be K.O. Quotes

“Thinking differently has given me the tools to face chaos and failure.”
― Kaiya Stone, Everything Is Going to Be K.O.: An illustrated memoir of living with specific learning difficulties

“Letters will never be able to hold the cacophony that bubbles within me.”
― Kaiya Stone, Everything Is Going to Be K.O.: An illustrated memoir of living with specific learning difficulties

“Trust me when I say there are many different types of intelligence and education. Nobody has them all. Maybe you're a social charmer who can read any room with no formal education or perhaps you're a physics professor who has to wear Velcro shoes and can't read an analogue clock - there really shouldn't be a hierarchy of these skills. One is not cleverer than the others.”
― Kaiya Stone, Everything Is Going to Be K.O.: An illustrated memoir of living with specific learning difficulties

“One of the fragments (thirty-eight) just reads You burn me. It is tiny little messages from the past and the future coming to tell you that you aren't alone, that we all look at the same stars and wonder what the fuck is going on. The sort of words that make you forget time and remember eternity.”
― Kaiya Stone, Everything Is Going to Be K.O.: An illustrated memoir of living with specific learning difficulties

“We have tied our self-worth to their statements and at some point, we must begin the slow and arduous process of breaking free and seeing that we are more than they said we were.”
― Kaiya Stone, Everything Is Going to Be K.O.: An illustrated memoir of living with specific learning difficulties

“I will no doubt tell that story of great-granddad to my children, maybe they will pass it down further - and essentially that's how all myths were invented. That's why Homer was not one man but many, many storytellers, and why writing isn't about spelling and grammar and pen licences.”
― Kaiya Stone, Everything Is Going to Be K.O.: An illustrated memoir of living with specific learning difficulties