Ty > Ty's Quotes

“Hate isn't healthy, it damages the hater more than the one who's hated!”
― Eric Jerome Dickey, Liar's Game

“You want to put a band-aid on something that needs stitches.”
― Eric Jerome Dickey, Cheaters

“no expectations, no disappointments!”
― Eric Jerome Dickey, Sleeping with Strangers

“People pray for rain, then complain about the flood. They pray for it to stop raining, then bitch about the drought.”
― Eric Jerome Dickey, Cheaters

“can't blame a man for being human when human is all he'll ever be!”
― Eric Jerome Dickey, Liar's Game

“It’s scary telling someone you care about, someone you love who you really are.”
― Eric Jerome Dickey, Genevieve

“A land of fallen idols and deposed emperors. A realm that each child must one day traverse. A journey that takes you from seeing your parents as infallible to recognizing them as all too human. For most, that journey ends with a wistful kind of acceptance. We love our parents not because they are perfect but because they perservere despite their imperfections. We all fall short of grace, but the beauty lives in the attempt.”
― S.A. Cosby, King of Ashes

“Power to protect. Power to avenge. Power over the life and death of my people. When colored folk ever had anyone offer us so much? When we ever had the power not to be scared no more? Ain’t we been suffering and dying all this time, at the hands of monsters in human form? What difference then if we make a pact with some other monsters? What we owe this world that so despises and brutalizes us? Why lift a hand to save it when it ain’t never done a damn thing to save us?”
― P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout

“You see, the hate they give is senseless. They already got power. Yet they hate those over who they got control, who don’t really pose a threat to them. Their fears aren’t real—just insecurities and inadequacies. Deep down they know that. Makes their hate like … watered-down whiskey. Now your people!”
― P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout

“Rich people always have enemies. Usually, that’s how they became rich.”
― P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn

“Devil wouldn’t be the devil if he didn’t know how to tempt.”
― P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout

“Reason and law don’t mean much when white folk want their way.”
― P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout

“No one who lives here is stupid or gullible. They’re just tired of the exploitation. Tired of being ignored. Desperate ears will listen to anyone offering up others to blame.”
― P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn

“I don’t have sad tales to tell you. I’m not some tragic character from a story, lost between two worlds. I revel in who I am. What I am.”
― P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn

“My grandpappy say when we die, we get our wings back, the ones white folk cut off when we come here. Maybe I’ll fly and meet my mama. Or all the way back to Africy.”
― P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout

“Time to balance the world on the tip of a sword.”
― P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout