Caryl Lewis > Quotes

“It’s okay to get scared, but we don’t let fear win.”
― Caryl Lewis, The Danger of Small Things

“You are everything I don’t understand,” I say, pushing out the words between my teeth. “You are the type that just goes along with things, the type who does one thing and says another, anything to make your life easier, anything to make your life better.”
― Caryl Lewis, The Danger of Small Things

“Mum said that they used the same tactics when people were protesting. Someone new would join and you’d get a good feeling about them and everything would go well and then suddenly, out of nowhere, someone you knew would get arrested, jailed, until you couldn’t trust anyone, until you couldn’t talk to anyone, and the point was not to make you think your friend was an informant, it was to make you think that anyone could be.”
― Caryl Lewis, The Danger of Small Things

“They can’t kill me. I’m not even sure I’m alive.”
― Caryl Lewis, The Danger of Small Things