Morgan Rogers > Quotes

“I think lonely creatures ache for each other because who else can understand but someone who feels the same dark, black abyss?”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl

“You are made up of stars and the black glittering universe.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl

“It's okay to admit that something can be best just because it makes you happy, and not because you had to tear yourself apart to get there.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl

“Everyone's just pretending they have it together, because they don't realise everyone else is pretending to have it together. None of our dumbasses actually have it together.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl

“The stars glimmer above her. They gleam under the gaze of people like Grace, searching for meaning in their formations. They are doing their best for all the people that stare up at the dark and do not know that they, too, shine brilliantly.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl

“You are still just a human. Just a small thing that has to find its way like everyone else in this enormous world. It will not be simple, Grace Porter, and it will not be easy. You may have to make a lot of noise, and the universe's silence can be oppressive and thick. But you want them to hear you, and they will. So do not, not even for one second, stop making noise."
"And if they don't listen?"
Professor MacMillan Shrugs. "Don't given them that choice.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl

“Sometimes I wish," she starts, staring blankly out at the road in front of them, "I didn't have to have everything figured out. I wish I could turn off the part of my brain that needs perfectly executed plans, you know?”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl

“Maybe Plato knew something we didn't. Or maybe the gods did, when they split us in half and left us to reclaim our missing fragments.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl

“Because there is so much I want to say to you, and I made a promise in a chapel in the desert that I don't plan on breaking. Till death do us part, we said. That bejeweled priest asked if I, Grace Porter, took you, Yuki Yamamoto, to be my lawfully wedded wife, and by every power I have within me, by the endless and thunderous universe, I do, okay? I do.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl

“Cis men take up so much space,”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel

“But Grace will also hold on to this good thing, her good thing, for just a while longer. She has earned the right for something to be easy. She has earned the right to hold on to this place, this peace, this girl, this red-bricked home.”
― Morgan Rogers

“But Grace will always have work to do. This- being kind to herself, not trying to be perfect, not hurting herself in her quest to find the best and be the best- will always be work. It will take all that's within her to learn that she does not have grind her bones to dust, that needing to stop, needing to breathe, needing other people, is not weak.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel

“Perhaps the truly terrifying thing is to step away from what you're supposed to do and what you have planned. Perhaps you, the monster that you are, find yourself feeding on what you could not bear yourself”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel

“I think they must be lonely...I think anything that waits and sings from the very bottom, the very pit of their stomach, is a very lonely creature indeed...And I think... that those who venture, traveling through the water toward their song, must be very lonely, too.”
― Morgan Rogers

“I don't want to feel worthless just because I'm not working myself too hard.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel

“Today, girls and gays, we feast on drunk love.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel

“I don't want to feel like the world will end if I take a breath., I don't want to feel guilty anymore for taking care of myself. I don't want to stay in bed and stare at the wall and blame myself because I didn't execute some perfectly ordered plan.I want to try and get better.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel

“This is late stage capitalism, man. We have debt and will never be able to retire. Yaaaaay.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel

“It's okay to admit that something can be "best" just because it makes you happy, and not because you had to tear yourself apart to get there.”
― Morgan Rogers

“I wish you didn't have to feel like you can't make mistakes. I wish people weren't so caught up in maintaining their status quo that they don't see how much things could be so much better. How you could be so much better than anything they've ever seen.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel

“It will take all that's within her to learn that she doesn't have to grind her bones to dust, that needing to stop, needing to breathe, needing other people is not weak.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel

“Grace shoves her face in her pillows. If she suffocates, it would solve a lot of her problems.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel

“But I know what's best for me means I take care of myself. It means I'm kind to myself. It means I support my friends and my family, and I don't let the guilt take over when they support me back.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel

“Why do you never think you deserve anything good without having to kill yourself for it?”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel

“[The stars] are doing their best for all the people that stare up at the dark and do not know that they, too, shine brilliantly.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel

“Wake me up when we get there, or the world decides it's time to eat the rich. I'm not picky.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel

“I thought my best couldn't possibly include her, because that would mean settling.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel

“What if we are special, and we just don't know? What if the stories of things bigger and bolder reaching out to claim us are true? If you are favored, touched by the sun, what does that make me? Am I a creature, or favored by something big and magnificent, too?”
― Morgan Rogers

“You may have to make a lot of noise, and the universe's silence can be oppressive and thick.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel

“I have only the wisdom of my own life to share with you. And my life has taught me to take care of myself, so that I can take care of everything else. You'll figure out how to do that.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl: A Novel