Deaf Fiction Quotes

“By the time you do what it takes to be a hero, you don't want to be a hero.”
― Michael C. Haymes

“Civilization thrives in vigilance -- not complacency.”
― Michael C. Haymes

“When you can't hear, you learn to listen.”
― Michael C. Haymes

“I'd always tell them that I was hard-of-hearing. One minute they said it didn't bother them, the next they'd tell me to forget it.”
― Michael C. Haymes

“Sex, drugs, and rock & roll...It don't get no better.”
― Michael C. Haymes

“Drugs cry for those who cannot weep, and mourn for those who cannot grieve.”
― Michael C. Haymes

“Tribalism is a prison of perception.”
― Michael C. Haymes

“Sometimes, the only way to make things better is to believe they will be.”
― Michael C. Haymes

“Every heart has got a story. Listen for the ones nobody wants to hear.”
― Michael C. Haymes

“Never let anyone dictate your narrative.”
― Michael C. Haymes

“Everything is a McApocalypse to those people. They think the sky is falling, but the universe is laughing at them.”
― Michael C. Haymes

“The past takes a different shape in the future.”
― Michael C. Haymes

“Demons that lurk in darkness feast on silence.”
― Michael C. Haymes

“The lessons of our past, no matter how horrifying, must be remembered if we are to preserve our future.”
― Michael C. Haymes

“You can't join the movement for the thrill of the cause.”
― Michael C. Haymes

“The problem is never what you believe, but that you demand everybody else believes it too.”
― Michael C. Haymes

“Whether you call it heads or tails, a quarter is still just twenty-five cents.”
― Michael C. Haymes

“The greatest dangers lurk in the darkness of our own ignorance.”
― Michael C. Haymes

“I'm depressed because the people I love are dead. I don't think my deafness has anything to do with that.”
― Michael C. Haymes

“A moment may be remembered for a lifetime, but a lifetime is always more than a moment.”
― Michael C. Haymes

“America is an idea, a dream rooted in a directed vision that boldly declares that life is not simply meant to be endured but enjoyed through our pursuit of happiness; that liberty and justice are not granted by a privileged few but earned by the oppressed through their devotion toward a more perfect union; and that the progress of inching ever closer toward the sanctity of what America must be takes a multigenerational marathon of endurance, vigilance, and, above all, responsibility.”
― Michael C. Haymes

“I was brought up to believe we can be better. We can be more than who we are...that's our gift. We have the ability to learn, the capacity to change. We grow. That's how we become better. We evolve with each new lesson we learn, if we're willing to accept those lessons.”
― Michael C. Haymes

“Letting go does not mean you've moved on. Moving on does not mean you must let go.”
― Michael C. Haymes

“I decided that I was going to live my life, in spite of the mess it had become.”
― Michael C. Haymes

“You only live once. Get it right the first time.”
― Michael C. Haymes

“I felt like a castaway lost at sea during a nasty nor-easter. And nobody could see past the storm...”
― Michael C. Haymes

“Any fool can sit on a moral high horse when he isn't challenged by the reality of the race.”
― Michael C. Haymes

“It’s not what you get in life, it’s what you give back that truly defines you.”
― Michael Thal, The Lip Reader

“A protest without a practical objective is meaningless. You can't join the movement for the thrill of the cause.”
― Michael C. Haymes

“You once told me that you can't remember who you want to be,' Memphis said. She came in close, like the day we had first met. 'There are always moments in life when we lose ourselves, but we're never lost. Not really. Sometimes we just can't see who we are, or who we have been, to the people around us--the ones we love, those who love us. Sometimes, you just have to remember that you made it this far. You can go a little longer.”
― Michael C, Haymes