Mackenzie Marrow > Mackenzie's Quotes

“If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“Queer indispensability?” Manal asks.
“It’s a concept I heard about at a play I went to a few months ago—a solo performance piece by a queer Sri Lankan trans man,” I tell her. “At one point, he talked about something he noticed, not only in himself, but in his queer friends and com“community—this way in which queer people tend to make themselves indispensable in their relationships and friendships. They’re so afraid of being left that they make themselves unleavable.”
― Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

“69 hours”
― S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

“There is always time to eat shitty food with a pretty girl. Fuck the war, fuck what's a 'good idea.' Go eat some garbage and stare into her eyes. Do something human in this inhuman place.”
― Robert Evans, After The Revolution

“I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

“War and disaster" would be my middle name if I hadn't already legally changed my middle name to Danger.”
― Margaret Killjoy, Escape from Incel Island

“I've never been a nature person. Consider it my rebellion from my burnout hippie parents. I only ever went out to nature to see if I was tough enough to conquer it, never to just appreciate it.”
― Margaret Killjoy, Escape from Incel Island

“Were Stag's Crossing to expand it would not be through the act of men laying down fences but like the festering of an open wound. A thousand acres of weeping flesh left to rot in eastern Nebraska”
― Kailee Pedersen

“At dinner parties he might say, I'm from Nebraska, and you? With the smug self-indulgence of a man who is from somewhere but no longer inhabits it, has no longer any need of that place called Stag's Crossing that his father so carefully constructed for his sons.”
― Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals

“Young and having barely grown his first pair of antlers he is innocent of this fatal desire to engrave himself into the body of another. Reworking and remaking the fabric of his destiny, skin against skin.”
― Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals

“Nick knows his friends' fathers often come home from town smelling of alcohol or worse, but Carlyle reeks of nothing but the singular urge to destroy.”
― Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals

“But now he has been thoroughly seduced by her suffering, her vulnerability. As men are attracted to a woman in pain. He envisions an affair extravagant and uncontrollable as the creek when it floods. A disastrous and untimely end to his family.”
― Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals

“Where life is precious, life is precious.”
― Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

“I can't see anything wrong, around her ears or anywhere else. She looks perfect to me.”
― Alex Gino, You Don't Know Everything, Jilly P!

“and they're all going on about how she should have been wearing her hearing aids ... and no one's saying she shouldn't have been shot”
― Alex Gino, You Don't Know Everything, Jilly P!

“The hard thing about accidentally saying the wrong thing is that you don't know it's the wrong thing until you've already said it and hurt someone. And even if you didn't mean it that way, you can't take it back.”
― Alex Gino, You Don't Know Everything, Jilly P!

“It's like the difference between stepping on someone's foot by mistake and kicking them. Only one is mean, but they both hurt.”
― Alex Gino, You Don't Know Everything, Jilly P!

“Deaf people have always found a way to sign with each other”
― Alex Gino, You Don't Know Everything, Jilly P!

“I wonder how people who are Deaf even know when they aren't hearing something. How cold you miss something you don't know is there?”
― Alex Gino, You Don't Know Everything, Jilly P!

“Black parents in this country have to talk with their kids about being careful around the police. But until white parents can talk about what's happening to Black kids too, nothing's going to change.”
― Alex Gino, You Don't Know Everything, Jilly P!

“And if Justin and Jamila aren't safe because they're Black, does that mean Emma and I are safe because we're white?”
― Alex Gino, You Don't Know Everything, Jilly P!

“Mom and Dad may not be ready for Emma to be Deaf yet, but there's no way I'm waiting another day to start learning how to sign.”
― Alex Gino, You Don't Know Everything, Jilly P!

“She was still a romantic. The world was askew, but she would always have dreams. She would have her own life now, on her own terms, and she would make it work.”
― Rona Jaffe, Mazes and Monsters

“The first thing he said to her was that he was dismayed she had cut her hair. He said he had preferred it curly; it was sexy, like pubic hair. She thought of jumping out of his car, but he was driving fast, down a residential street that was far away from any transportation, and it was raining.”
― Rona Jaffe, Mazes and Monsters

“People don't always run away from something bad. Sometimes people have to run away from perfection.”
― Rona Jaffe, Mazes and Monsters

“Half the time she didn't know what she felt, and the other half of the time she wondered who would care anyway.”
― Rona Jaffe, Mazes and Monsters

“Time will destroy all these memories. In their forties there will be nothing here expect the easy and complacent amnesia of childhood.”
― Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals

“Since sunup his pallor has been that of a dead man drifting from delirium to delirium. Nausea overtakes him; the ascent of a singular summertime mania.”
― Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals

“After that her lack of libido didn't bother Julia at all. As long as it didn't make her breasts sag, it didn't matter.”
― Rona Jaffe, Mazes and Monsters

“He wanted a simple snowball fight and his parents wanted him to win the Nobel Prize.”
― Rona Jaffe, Mazes and Monsters