133 quotes found
“Beneath hot sun, desert roses bloomed. Under cold moon, I still refused to.”
“I was passive by nature. I had always been. Arguing felt unnatural and uncomfortable. I was always agreeing even when I didnt really, instinctively looking for ways to forfeit power, to become more...”
“There was so little I wanted to carry. Packing my backpack took me all of four minutes”
“Id believed I needed to be steady in myself before I could function with othersbut surviving alone no longer felt like a good way either.”
“On this walk I'd had so much time and space to actually figure out who I was without my mother's influence. I understood now: the things that my mother had found made her happy were not the same as...”
“I had feared this end, wondered where I would go from it, from the moment I first stepped on this footpath in the desert. But I found I was not afraid of reaching it now. I was happy. I hadn't foun...”
“I realized that the most empowering important thing was actually simply taking care of myself.”
“I was promising myself strength.I had to write it, say it, make the effort and fake it before I actually believed I could do it.”
“I no longer needed to peel myself of my skin, or to hide. To Dash the colorless ephemeral things that existed just beneath my surface were as vivid as the beauty marks he traced on my cheek.”
“You dont need extra food, extra water, extra clothing for extra warmth anything extra. You dont need soap or deodorant. Everything you carry you should need daily.”
“I'd crossed a borderSpeaking openly, exposing the weak girl I'd been, I was no longer her.”
“As if violence could make light. Maybe violence could make light.”
“I didnt know if I was brave or reckless.”
“It finally had to.I understood that it wouldnt be easy, it would be very hard; Id need to resist the habit I had developed long ago with conviction. Id have to be impolite, an inconvenience, and s...”
“For this entire walk, my desire had ashamed me, as if my wanting to be kissed that night mitigated the fault of Junior's sudden deafness. I'd been given stacks of reasons to blame myself for an act...”
“For all my life, I had been passive when faced with dangers. I was stunned as I swam to find that I had, for the first time in my history, asserted myself and been truly heardrespected. It felt mon...”
“We arent afraid of what we can explain.”
“In the aftermath of destruction, a silence settles the stillness of fresh loss. Peoples cheerful chatter is fainter, the blue color of sky dimmer; now that horror is undeniable and feels inescapab...”
“My relationship with my mother trapped me in the identity of a child.”
“Living as Wild Child, I could no longer be Debby Parker comfortably this name that Id been given at birth that defined me before Id had the chance to define myself.”
