Priya Guns > Quotes

“I was a woman who wasn’t going to take it anymore because I swear, I have taken so much already.”
― Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

“Jolene smiled and in her smile was tomorrow, three months from now, and an infinity swimming in a lake by a summer house.”
― Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

“How do you know how to live when you’ve never been given the freedom to?”
― Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

“Once you go Brown in bed, you won’t frown until you’re dead.”
― Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

“Kings, queens and jesters ate with recycled wooden cutlery in a humble attempt to save the world, while their branded clothes hid their well-fed stomachs.”
― Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

“At Doo Wop things didn’t operate as they did on the outside. People were different. You could share. You could be ridiculous. You could be you and feel so free just being. Who said communism couldn’t be fun?”
― Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

“Progressively overloading after each set is what increases muscle size, so I did four sets of each, finishing my last one with the lightest weights to absolute fail. When I lifted, my arms turned to putty and my mind was put at ease. That was perfection.”
― Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

“There’s a huge disparity between what drivers make and what the shareholders make. Plus, who says a driver doesn’t have the ability to manage themselves?”
― Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

“To not let life get the better of us, and that the peace we needed was inside ourselves. The peace I needed, though, was not inside anything, and the peace we all needed could be solved with some proper monies and social security.”
― Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

“Low-paid jobs and unfulfilling work are both exhausting. Even though I just drove, I had dreams that I was saving up for. Driving wasn’t going to be my forever, somehow.”
― Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

“It had only been about ten minutes since I left the house, and my phone was already buzzing. It was Amma. I hit “end” as I always did, wishing that sometimes it had more power than just ignoring a call. Again and again, her name flashed on my screen, and each time I did the same. Then she sent me the first round of the many messages she will send in a day”
― Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

“See! This is the rubbish we’re forced to listen to! These are the loony leftists that want to see communism and socialism, all these fairy-tale ideas. It’s not real life. Enough of it! And coming from people like you?”
― Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

“My teeth were yellowed, but cigarettes and coffee were too delicious for me to care. They made love in my mouth like it was New Year’s Eve and they had no resolutions.”
― Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

“If they tell you there’s not even one weapon hidden in their car, they’re lying. As a driver, you have to protect yourself. Out there in the city, we’re on our own.”
― Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

“I waited, looking out the window. The people outside were zombies and it was the end of the world. It was funny, but it wasn’t. “There’s no one to help anyone in this city, is there?” “It’s each one for themselves,” said the man, handing me my bag. “And that’s exactly how they want it.”
― Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

“I took the pack of cigarettes from my back pocket and lit one, watching Shereef's two other mechanics with their clients, hoping I wouldn't set off an explosion with my lighter.”
― Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

“For every moment I was hopeful, there were hours of helplessness that stormed through like a heavy rain.”
― Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

“My morning routine was straightforward. I wish I could say I started the day with the four highly effective habits of the wealthy. You know, they wake up at five a.m. and go for a walk without a care in the world. They brush their horses in their stable, masturbate at the breakfast bar in the house they own on their private island that they flew to on their personal jet.”
― Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

“knew that was irresponsible of her to say and my bank balance proved it, but I still watched the whole video, mesmerized by magma and technology.”
― Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

“If you’re going to be a driver, you’d better hide at least one weapon in your car. Especially if you’re a driver that looks like me. Not because I’m dashing or handsome, but because I am a woman, of course. I think it has something to do with tits even though not all of us have them. I sort of do, but that’s beside the point.”
― Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

“Just because we’re women doesn’t mean we can’t understand politics or organize. We have a lot to offer. I’m actually a social worker and have experience working with vulnerable people,’ Jolene continued. ‘Steph, you’re a strong and fierce woman, you get what I’m saying, right?”
― Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

“People see other people and they don’t know what they’ve lived through. They just see what they want to see.”
― Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

“This part of the city used to be cool because it wasn't but then it was forced to be a different of cool. A pricey. I think they call that gentrification.”
― Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

“There was no escaping it—people were out to be seen and heard, however pointless it seemed sometimes. For every moment I was hopeful, there were hours of helplessness that stormed through like a heavy rain.”
― Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

“It had a color palette that was as inspiring as the dried gum on my shoe.”
― Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

“Blood dripped to the ground. One drop turned to a splatter at my feet and below me was art made from my body.”
― Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

“I loved it when my blood rushed. After six months of my workout routine I was addicted to feeling like a throbbing clit.”
― Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

“I was completely out of my dept and surviving on flotation devices that may as well have been punctured. Ever so slowly, I was sinking with Amma's voice in the background: " Did you pay the rent yet? Can you turn the tv on? My legs hurt from sitting.”
― Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

“As Jolene stood within our circle the multitude of clattering tongues in her ears must have taken her to a foreign place, far from anywhere she'd been to in the city. The horror. She might have walked around in search of familiarity, a pocket of comfort where she could rest [...] Maybe she realized that she could do more, that she had not done enough, that she was complicit in something bigger than herself, but everything she had ever been told said, "No, don't believe it!”
― Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

“I’m not sure which is worse, being broke or being broken. Being both was definitely the worst, though.”
― Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting