Brooklyn Cole > Quotes

“I can’t believe the shit men get away with and women have to pay the consequences for!”
― Brooklyn Cole, The Apologies I Deserved

“To be the daughter of a broken mother was exhausting as a child.”
― Brooklyn Cole, The Apologies I Deserved

“Why is your mother always behind your downfall?”
― Brooklyn Cole, The Apologies I Deserved

“Vacation Amanda was always way more laid back than everyday Amanda.”
― Brooklyn Cole, The Apologies I Deserved

“You aren’t responsible for your mother’s behavior.”
― Brooklyn Cole, The Apologies I Deserved

“I felt sad for her once I got older and understood. No one held her to that standard, but she did. I can’t imagine how exhausting it would be to have to be perfect for yourself. If other people expected you to be perfect at least you’d have breaks whenever you weren’t around them, but she never has breaks from herself. That breaks my heart.”
― Brooklyn Cole, The Apologies I Deserved

“Not only my physical beauty, but me as a person. I am beautiful. Who I am. What I fight for. That’s why I’m beautiful.”
― Brooklyn Cole, The Apologies I Deserved

“Elderly black women have the same effect. Now, an elderly black woman with a southern accent…stop that right now!”
― Brooklyn Cole, The Apologies I Deserved

“We’re like Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, except with that bar stool because that thing fits my ass perfectly too!”
― Brooklyn Cole, The Apologies I Deserved

“Shitty men and crazy mothers are the only things that can drive a woman that insane…so,”
― Brooklyn Cole, The Apologies I Deserved

“I’m sorry…I’m sorry for not giving you the credit you deserved as a mother. I’m sorry that you didn’t have the life or husband you wanted. I’m sorry you had to go through everything you went through, and—” I center myself before continuing. “I love you, Mom.”
― Brooklyn Cole, The Apologies I Deserved

“Baby girl, I’m sorry. You never deserved a broken mother. You shouldn’t have had to be so strong at such a young age. I’m sorry I wasn’t stronger for you. I want to be—I will be…I promise.”
― Brooklyn Cole, The Apologies I Deserved

“For reminding me that I’m worth loving,”
― Brooklyn Cole, The Apologies I Deserved

“My mind drifts off into a sanctuary like it did so many times in my childhood.”
― Brooklyn Cole, The Apologies I Deserved

“the only person I care about is Natalie. In the most toxic form. I’d sacrifice anyone and anything to keep her safe. I’d sell my soul to the fucking devil if that meant she would live.”
― Brooklyn Cole, The Apologies I Deserved

“Every thought in my mind I counteract with an excuse for her.”
― Brooklyn Cole, The Apologies I Deserved

“It takes a lot of courage and confidence to realize that something needs to change, but then actually doing it, is the purest form of bravery.”
― Brooklyn Cole, The Apologies I Deserved

“The best way of describing my anxiety is that hair on the back of your arm that you can never fucking find—I search and search for relief and end up wanting to set myself on fire instead.”
― Brooklyn Cole, The Apologies I Deserved

“She doesn’t think I need saving from the world, but she knows I need saving from myself sometimes.”
― Brooklyn Cole, The Apologies I Deserved

“My mother noticed the conversation wasn’t about her, so she interjects,”
― Brooklyn Cole, The Apologies I Deserved

“I must’ve been Harriet Tubman or someone else amazing in my past life to earn love like this.”
― Brooklyn Cole, The Apologies I Deserved

“I thank the lord for blessing me with no hangover, but I’m still punished with my mouth as dry as my vagina around frat boys.”
― Brooklyn Cole, The Apologies I Deserved

“Why else would you constantly poke the caged bear if you didn’t like to see the frightening animal it is?”
― Brooklyn Cole, The Apologies I Deserved

“If I know my history right, Jesus turned water to wine and Lucifer always had the “perfect” prescription to solve all your problems.”
― Brooklyn Cole, The Apologies I Deserved

“I will take the weight of a thousand suns just so Payton can see the sunrise.”
― Brooklyn Cole, The Apologies I Deserved

“He isn’t only asking if I’m okay from the crash, but am I okay. And I’m not. I’m not okay with the way my childhood was. I’m not okay with the way he’s been treated by everyone in his life. I’m not okay that I can’t help everyone. I’m not okay with the generational trauma that curses our family. I’m not okay that I’ve never felt enough for anyone. And for the first time in my life, I answer that question honestly. “No.”
― Brooklyn Cole, The Apologies I Deserved

“was so focused on my own childhood trauma that I didn’t consider the damage I was inflicting on you and your siblings.”
― Brooklyn Cole, The Apologies I Deserved

“It’s not 1990, everyone’s not obsessed with being skinny anymore.”
― Brooklyn Cole, The Apologies I Deserved

“My comedy is the cage protecting my heart through the dark memory lane of my trauma.”
― Brooklyn Cole, The Apologies I Deserved

“My loved ones healed a wound inflicted on me from another,”
― Brooklyn Cole, The Apologies I Deserved