Kiyoko Quotes

Books shed light unto the darkness. Darkness retreats one letter, one line, one page at a time and someday everything in the world will become clear.

I think about those family portraits on Sonya’s walls. How I’ll never have that. Don’t you have to know what a family feels like to build one?

As a human being we must express ourselves.

You are the good part of everything, sweetie. We can’t control what people do - how they betray us or even why. How they leave our lives. So many people are running scared. And sometimes they run back to us and earn back our trust. But the ones who don’t come back - or who don’t work to earn back what they lost from us - we have to let them go.

And now I know: to go through life unknown when you’ve had a taste of the other side is a lot more bitter than sweet.

Last time, I tell myself as I lean forward. Last time I press my lips to her forehead, my hands cradling her head. Last time I walk away from her. “Coley?” I turn. Last time she looks at me like this, like I’m the world and the moon and the entire universe she’s loosing. “One day, I’ll be as brave as you,” she tells me. Last time she shatters me with her words.

But when you let go, you can take all that love you had, all the energy, and funnel it into yourself instead. Because there is so much for you to love about yourself, Coley.

For Ichi, the sight of a huge turtle three feet long was enough to make her shiver in awe. Sea turtles had no fear of humans and were perfectly happy to swim alongside them. Sometimes while they swam, one of them would look Ichi in the eye and wink—a signal that meant “Come here.” When she saw the big blue shadow of a sea turtle in the bright, radiant sea, Ichi felt she had seen the shadow of a god.