R.X. Bird Quotes

I had to learn how to love myself and trust me it’s not the type of thing that happens over night.

I was the chain that bit into my ankle, and I was the ruthless guard that never slept.

Whatever you is, Onion, " he said, "be it full.

If something came out of the deal, it couldn’t make things any worse for us than they already were, I thought. But I couldn’t have been more wrong. Hell has no true bottom.

Not a week after Annie put her foot in Mrs. Huffmaster's duff, the Captain upped and laid down the date.

In truly deep darkness, all kinds of strange things were possible.

He sleeps with you?""Robert?"Stacey rolled her eyes at

I don't ask for your pity, but just for your understanding – not even that – no. Just for some recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.

The choice was whether to be sad and foolish or sad and reasonable.

[T]he only thing that has power over you is what you can't say, even to yourself.

Hip-hop is storytelling.

Truly a good horse, good ground to gallop on, and sunshine, make up the sum of enjoyable travelling.

My mother was always in the center of her own agitation, seeming as though, far away, part of her was being chased along a dirt road by a swarm of bees.

i go deeper into my head

Hatred is like a tow-edged sword. When you cut the other person, you cut yourself.

I'm probably projecting. I'm a projector. For example: The world is not terrible. I just keep thinking it is.

...being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about.

The tension between people is palpable, and the ideal of what it means to be and look American becomes a preoccupation to folks around the country, including me.

If I could turn you on, if I could drive you out of your wretched mind, if I could tell you I would let you know.

Certain kinds of information are like smoke: they work their way into people's eyes and minds whether sought out or not, and with no regard to personal preference.

Of course, you were crowned with laurel in the beginning, your gold hair was wreathed with laurel, but the gold is thinning and the laurel has withered. Face it – pitiful monster.

all night he talks and holds me, all night he loves me slow and careful.

And I love everything on this changing, burning earth, but I am most grateful to you.

That is what all creatures great and small are made of. Leftover stardust. An atom exploded, and all the dust became the planets, the stars...and us. That's all anything amounts to.

Neva ought to smile more. It breaks her anxiety into tiny pieces of joy you want to gather up and hand back to her in your palms, as if to say, “See what you can make when you loose the reins.

I got a question for you, gonna come over here and kiss me with those pretty lips?

Racism breeds racism in reverse.

Theology is speaking about God while in the very presence of God. We are intimately engaged with the subject of our study.

Where there's guts, there's curiosity, and where there's curiosity, there's guts.

Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things

School is one long illness with symptoms that switch every five minutes so you think it's getting better or worse. But really it's the same thing for years and years.

I’m serious, now let me know every time you see her cry. The thought brings me great joy. Hope.

My face is shaped like a face, and my body like a body, but my thoughts are very unusual. Piano from the third floor. Daisies on a roof.

Nobody, she felt, understood her--not her mother, not her father, not her sister or brother, none of the girls or boys at school, nadie--except her man.

The little things are important, Mr. Wind-Up Bird,

Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas

It's better to face madness with a plan than to sit still and let it take you in pieces.

I allowed myself a microscopic view into his ice-colored eyes. It was like viewing one of those photographs of the Arctic region – very foreign, exotic, clearly a place you’ve never dreamed of going.

Perhaps finding out that we carry New World history in our genes will transcend racial checkboxes altogether and enable Latino-Americans to rethink what America is supposed to look like.

I have all the power, but you will destroy me. “Only your walls, Lark.” He deepened the kiss, licking into my mouth as if he knew he’d find me there hiding from him.

Her occupation was the worst that anyone could think of. No guest in the park had to think of it because, unlike the wandering dwarf women, her job had no bearing on paper.

In response to my father-in-law's view, I offered no opinion. He was not looking for my opinion. He had merely been spouting his belief, a conviction that would remain unchanged for all eternity.

The clever cannot catch the genius

The Concept of Gender Does Not Exist....All There Is, Is What Is

This is a silly place. Half the world has no clean water. The other half has so much that they pooh in it.

Fun. It‘s this crazy thing where people smile and laugh and are generally pleased. I could have sworn I saw you smile at least once

Maybe the secret to happiness is simplicity.

I was living for one thing only, and that was to confirm my own lack of feeling.

Jay replied to the bird, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry, my little bird. I'm sorry for leaving you alone. I'm sorry for hiding you away. Only now do I realize how much I've missed you.

I know exactly what I'm doing, but I just can't stop. That's my greatest weakness.