Kevin L > Kevin's Quotes

“Plus, if I properly recorded the things we had in the house, they’d never be lost again.”
― Christina Li, Clues to the Universe

“I could always do the Next Best Step, but sometimes I wondered if some people were meant to walk around with craters in their hearts for the rest of their lives.”
― Christina Li, Clues to the Universe

“What’s wrong with wanting to figure out how fast the Earth rotates around the sun or wanting to launch a rocket because I want to know things? Because I actually care?”
― Christina Li, Clues to the Universe

“It was this part that wished, in an aching way, that getting my dad back was as easy—as possible—as putting a star over a city on a map and chasing it down winding roads until I finally saw him and everything was whole again.”
― Christina Li, Clues to the Universe

“Sometimes, science means looking at the cards ten times before you finally catch the trick. It means failing, and trying, and failing again, all in hopes of making things better the next time around.”
― Christina Li, Clues to the Universe

“Those were just successes. But how many failures did the scientists have to see? How many times did their rockets not orbit the planet, or not take off at all? How many times had they dreamed about landing on the moon, only to realize that they couldn't make it happen, not yet?”
― Christina Li, Clues to the Universe

“My memories of my brother are like a garden full of weeds. I pull at them, somedays wanting to remove the bad ones, somedays wanting to remove the good ones because they hurt even more.”
― Jasmine Warga, The Shape of Thunder

“There should be a word for when you miss a person in the future. Not just missing memories of them, but missing memories you never got to have with them.”
― Jasmine Warga, The Shape of Thunder

“Maybe that’s how loss always is. It helps you better see what was already there. What was always there.”
― Jasmine Warga, The Shape of Thunder

“Losing Lea feels like there’s a knife forever twisting in my heart. It feels like walking up a stairway that never ends, and every new step gets harder and harder to climb. It feels like floating through space with no way of getting home. It feels hopeless.”
― Akemi Dawn Bowman, Summer Bird Blue

“Because music is a carnival at night, lit up by a thousand stars and bursting with luminescent colors and magical illusions. Music is magic and lightning and fireworks.”
― Akemi Dawn Bowman, Summer Bird Blue

“Fuck romance—Lea was the love of my life. It was beautiful and horrible and messy and angry, but it was also the purest, most innocent kind of love I’ll ever feel.”
― Akemi Dawn Bowman, Summer Bird Blue

“Because that’s how it is when you have a sister you love—you never stop talking to them, not ever, not even when they do something horrible, or stop breathing, or exist in some place you can’t see. Because their ghost stays with you forever, and you spend the rest of your life trying to say all the things you wish you had said when they were alive.”
― Akemi Dawn Bowman, Summer Bird Blue

“My hopefulness feels like it’s wedged in my throat—it hurts to get the words out, but it would hurt even more to swallow them back down and bury them in the pit of my stomach, where they’d fester for an eternity because some dreams refuse to die.”
― Akemi Dawn Bowman, Harley in the Sky

“I believe in gray areas. I live in the gray area. But when it comes to my parents, I guess it’s always been easier to put them in boxes. Even though I hate boxes. Because the problem with boxes is that they don’t give people any room to grow.”
― Akemi Dawn Bowman, Harley in the Sky

“I think of how I’ll be an old lady remembering the day I got splashed by dolphins with Summer, and I find myself wondering whether she will be someone I still know, or just a memory like a shoebox full of seashells.”
― Paul Mosier, Summer and July

“It’s weird, how you have no idea how far you’ve come until suddenly you can’t find the way back.”
― Emma Lord, Tweet Cute

“She’s a shell. A ghost. I think her soul climbed into the coffin with Lea. I wish mine had done the same. Because at least then I wouldn’t feel so left behind.”
― Akemi Dawn Bowman, Summer Bird Blue

“Your sexuality -- and how you identify -- is nobody else's business. You can change your mind, or not change your mind. Those labels exist for you, and not so that everyone else can try to force you into a box. Especially if that box is their close-minded idea of fucking normal.”
― Akemi Dawn Bowman, Summer Bird Blue

“Some people are meant to be forever, like Lea and me. And other people come into your life for a reason— you help each other figure shit out and come to terms with complicated feelings that you can't process on your own.”
― Akemi Dawn Bowman, Summer Bird Blue

“And maybe that’s like life. You live for a moment—one single moment. And then you don’t matter. Because there are years of the past and years of the future, and we’re all simply one tiny blip in time—a surge of water waiting to leave our mark on the sand, only to have it washed away by the waves that come after us. And Lea, with her brief, tiny wave. She didn’t get to make a mark. If she’d had more time, she would have been a hurricane.”
― Akemi Dawn Bowman, Summer Bird Blue

“Grief is a monster - not everyone gets out alive, and those who do might only survive in pieces. But it's a monster that can be conquered, with time.”
― Akemi Dawn Bowman, Summer Bird Blue

“You can't rush creativity. It's like the rain. You wait and wait and wait, and when it finally comes, it soaks the earth and revives all the plants.”
― Akemi Dawn Bowman, Summer Bird Blue

“Our scars define us. They tell a story of courage and survival. They tell of who we are at our deepest being, of the challenges we've faced and overcome.”
― Lynette Noni, The Gilded Cage

“Everyone deserves to have someone fight for them, even―and especially―when they're unable to fight for themselves.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“Broken people don't hide from their monsters. Broken people let themselves be eaten.”
― Francesca Zappia, Eliza and Her Monsters

“There is a small monster in my brain that controls my doubt.
The doubt itself is a stupid thing, without sense or feeling, blind and straining at the end of a long chain. The monster though, is smart. It's always watching, and when I am cmpletely sure of myself, it unchains the doubt and lets it run wild. even when I know it's coming, I can't stop it.”
― Francesca Zappia, Eliza and Her Monsters

“Maybe that’s normal. The things you care most about are the ones that leave the biggest holes.”
― Francesca Zappia, Eliza and Her Monsters

“Like life, what gives a story its meaning is the fact that it ends. Our stories have lives of their own—and its up to us to make them mean something.”
― Francesca Zappia, Eliza and Her Monsters

“I learned years ago that it’s okay to do this. To seek out small spaces for me, to stop and imagine myself alone. People are too much sometimes. Friends, acquaintances, enemies, strangers. It doesn’t matter; they all crowd. Even if they’re all the way across the room, they crowd. I take a moment of silence and think:
I am here. I am okay.”
― Francesca Zappia, Eliza and Her Monsters