Honey Girl Quotes

“Cis men take up so much space,”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel

“Perhaps the truly terrifying thing is to step away from what you're supposed to do and what you have planned. Perhaps you, the monster that you are, find yourself feeding on what you could not bear yourself”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel

“But Grace will always have work to do. This- being kind to herself, not trying to be perfect, not hurting herself in her quest to find the best and be the best- will always be work. It will take all that's within her to learn that she does not have grind her bones to dust, that needing to stop, needing to breathe, needing other people, is not weak.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel

“But I know what's best for me means I take care of myself. It means I'm kind to myself. It means I support my friends and my family, and I don't let the guilt take over when they support me back.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel

“It feels terrible to be left behind because someone has their own issues to work on.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel

“I thought my best couldn't possibly include her, because that would mean settling.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel

“It will take all that's within her to learn that she doesn't have to grind her bones to dust, that needing to stop, needing to breathe, needing other people is not weak.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel

“I don't want to feel like the world will end if I take a breath., I don't want to feel guilty anymore for taking care of myself. I don't want to stay in bed and stare at the wall and blame myself because I didn't execute some perfectly ordered plan.I want to try and get better.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel

“I don't want to feel worthless just because I'm not working myself too hard.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel

“I wish you didn't have to feel like you can't make mistakes. I wish people weren't so caught up in maintaining their status quo that they don't see how much things could be so much better. How you could be so much better than anything they've ever seen.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel

“I think what makes it so scary is that you see it and you don't know whether to feel scared or safe. You don't know what it wants and if it will shield you or eat you.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel

“You may have to make a lot of noise, and the universe's silence can be oppressive and thick.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel

“But you are still just a human. Just a small thing that has to find its way like everyone else in this enormous world.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel

“Grace shoves her face in her pillows. If she suffocates, it would solve a lot of her problems.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel

“You can do whatever the hell you put your mind to, just by being you. Fuck anyone that disagrees. You are not worthless.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel

“This is late stage capitalism, man. We have debt and will never be able to retire. Yaaaaay.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel

“Wake me up when we get there, or the world decides it's time to eat the rich. I'm not picky.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel

“Today, girls and gays, we feast on drunk love.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel

“I have only the wisdom of my own life to share with you. And my life has taught me to take care of myself, so that I can take care of everything else. You'll figure out how to do that.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel

“I've given you, like, ten chances to open up to me today! I'm being emotionally available.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel

“[The stars] are doing their best for all the people that stare up at the dark and do not know that they, too, shine brilliantly.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel

“It’s hard to explain that you are tired, bone-deep, rib-deep, belly-deep tired. It’s hard to explain that someone held their hand out to the stars and said all of these can be yours, and you believed it. You believed the climb and the barrier and the gate would not break you.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel

“Oh, Porter,” Ximena sighs. “Why do you never think you deserve anything good without having to kill yourself for it?”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel

“Up there, you see, where the stars drew a path and the comet fire lit the way? That was where she found her purpose.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel

“It is strange that the Yamauba, old and barren and childless, seemed so enamored with children. It is strange that one whose belly has never stretched is still so eager to make it full. But this is not just a story about women and their expectations. This is not just a story about monsters, born from being unable to contort and fit into the small box we have given them and suddenly are afraid of what they have become. This is a story about how deviation from the norm can create scary, monstrous things. What my grandmother didn't know was that years later, society would still create Yamauba. We would still be seen as dark, terrible things simply for refusing to fit a particular narrative. Perhaps you, the monster that you are, find yourself feeding on what you could not bear yourself. Perhaps Yamauba were created because we did not want to name something we brought forth with our own hands. Perhaps flesh-eating monsters are simply people who break their molds, and their boxes, and find themselves demanding all they have been denied.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel

“No one told her astronomers, the ones that publish research every few months, and get tenured at universities, and navigate programs at NASA, that those astronomers don't have sun-gold hair. They don't have sun-brown skin. Those astronomers don't have ancestors that looked at the stars as a means of escape and not in awe.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel

“Why do you never think you deserve anything good without having to kill yourself for it?”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel

“She must be as formidable as the black, swirling universe. It keeps going, and so shall she.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel

“I think maybe your definition of best doesn't fit anymore. I think that's because the parameters of your grand plans have changed. It's okay to admit that. It's okay to admit that something can be best because it makes you happy, and not because you had to tear yourself apart to get there.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel