Celia Laskey > Quotes

“All I can say is… grief and joy can sit right beside each other, sometimes. And you might as well give yourself more opportunities for the joy to sit down.”
― Celia Laskey, Cover Story

“It was a soft kiss that only lasted for about two seconds, but I felt something in my stomach rev, like an old car trying to start. I wanted to see what it would feel like for the engine to turn over.”
― Celia Laskey, Under the Rainbow

“We exchange smiles--weak ones, like tea bags that have already been used once and barely color the water.”
― Celia Laskey, Under the Rainbow

“Friends didn’t even feel like the right word. It felt like our DNA was tied up together in a mess of knots so complete that we wouldn’t be able to untangle it even if we made it our life’s work. At that point in our friendship, it didn’t occur to me that the knots would loosen due to forces beyond our control.”
― Celia Laskey, So Happy for You

“Orange pill bottles make a miniature skyline on the bedside table.”
― Celia Laskey, Under the Rainbow

“Every day something makes me sad for straight women.”
― Celia Laskey, Under the Rainbow

“If you want to know the story of how my best friend and I ended up trying to kill each other, I should probably start with the night she asked me to be her maid of honor.”
― Celia Laskey, So Happy for You

“The cycle of fighting and making up with a sister has an almost circadian rhythm to it, a comforting predictability. I never had a reason to think it would stop.”
― Celia Laskey, So Happy for You

“Children are a gift of the Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward," she said in a sarcastic singsong voice, before adding darky, "What they forgot is that fruit rots.”
― Celia Laskey, Under the Rainbow

“When this is all over, when we're in charge and doughy half-wits like that pastor are stuck doing line work in our glitter and dildo factories, we're not going to forget the bad old days. We'll mumble slurs when we pass them on the street, we'll pick a disease and say it's just for them, we'll stand by doing nothing as they get beat up and raped and murdered all because of who they fuck.”
― Celia Laskey, Under the Rainbow

“Happiness was not good for capitalism or the patriarchy or white supremacy, i.e., business as usual.”
― Celia Laskey, So Happy for You

“Past the fear is the good stuff.”
― Celia Laskey, Cover Story

“Besides, it was never people’s siblings who didn’t accept their sexuality—it was always the parents.”
― Celia Laskey, So Happy for You

“She often wonders what it must feel like to not feel compelled to perfectly describe a cloud, a sunset, the ocean. To eavesdrop on people in a cafe and not fill in the blanks of their lives with your own imagination.”
― Celia Laskey, Cover Story