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“So when people say we¡re alone in the ether?" "Alone in everything. In time and space, in existence, in religion.”
― Alone With You in the Ether
― Alone With You in the Ether
“Sport mimics everyday life. It can be rewarding, and it can be entirely unfair. What we believe we deserve, what we have worked hard to attain, isn't always what we get" (My Mother's Daughter, p. 281).”
― My Mother's Daughter: A Memoir of Struggle and Triumph
― My Mother's Daughter: A Memoir of Struggle and Triumph
“I came to believe that every single person is a hurdle, even if they don't know it. While most aren't sprinting over literal fences, everyone has something to overcome. Sometimes e fall in our attempt and that's okay, because there is always a reason to pick yourself up and move forward" (My Mother's Daughter, p. 267).”
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“I want you to say everything, anything. I want to have your thoughts, I want to bottle them, I want to put them in my drawer for safekeeping.”
― Alone With You in the Ether
― Alone With You in the Ether
“Look at history,” Eva continued, rubbing a temple. “Roxanne Shanté out-rapping grown men at fourteen. Serena winning the US Open at seventeen. Mary Shelley writing Frankenstein at eighteen. Josephine Baker conquering Paris at nineteen. Zelda Fitzgerald’s high school diary was so fire that her future husband stole entire passages to write The Great Gatsby. The eighteenth-century poet Phillis Wheatley published her first piece at fourteen, while enslaved. Joan of Arc. Greta Thunberg. Teen girls rearrange the fucking world.”
― Seven Days in June
― Seven Days in June
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