What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day Quotes
"They get diagnosed and all of a sudden they’re Mother Teresa. I can’t be positive! It’s impossible! I’m practically a virgin!"
"Most of us got it from the boys. Which is, when you think about it, a pretty good argument for cutting men loose."
"This is how it goes: First, you have to confess that you did nasty, disgusting sex stuff... Then, once your listeners have been totally freaked out by what you’ve told them, they get to decide how much sympathy, attention, help, money, and understanding you’re entitled to based on how disgusted they are."
"If you’re not a little kid, or a heterosexual movie star’s doomed but devoted wife, or a hemophiliac who got it from a tainted transfusion, or a straight white woman who can prove she’s a virgin with a dirty dentist, you’re not eligible for any no-strings sympathy."
"The truth is, people are usually relieved. It always makes them feel better when they know the specifics of your story."
"It’s like lying about how much you loved the rush of the nicotine just because now you have lung cancer."
"That’s why I pay all that extra money to sit up here, so they’ll bring me what I want before I have to ring the bell and ask for it."
"Discomfort is always a necessary part of the process of enlightenment."
"I know I drink too much, but I’m trying to cut back."
"Being diagnosed HIV-positive changes everything about your life, but it’s still your life, the only one you know for sure you got, so you better figure out how to live it as best you can."
"I was always sure about things in those days. It wasn’t until recently that I started second-guessing myself."
"It’s a lot harder to take care of your body when nobody’s going to see you naked."
"When people got drafted, they had a party, got drunk, tried to talk their girlfriend of the moment into having sex, and reported for duty."
"Learning to have the patience to let nature take its course is half the lesson."
"Grown people never ask you what they should do until they’ve already decided for themselves."
"Most straight brothers are still in such denial that when you fess up, their first reaction is to run in the opposite direction as fast as they can."
"I’ve been here a week and Joyce has been at the hospital more than she’s been home."
"The idea never appealed to me. I’m too selfish to be somebody’s mother."
"I never felt like my small contribution to the overpopulation of the planet was critical to anybody’s agenda, especially mine."
"I liked it. I was tired of calling her the baby. I was even starting to feel like it might be okay to have her here."
"This was Joyce’s real life. It was just a stopover on mine."
"By the time they figure it’s okay to hand out a public health pamphlet, it’ll be way too late. It’s probably already too late."
"She says you’ve been a bad girl. That’s a quote."
"If I wanted to be as healthy as I could be, even now, especially now, I had to cut back on all the vodka I was drinking and figure out some kind of exercise I could do that wouldn’t drive me crazy."
"Everything feels silly the first few times you do it and not to give up."
"You learn to walk that quiet in the army, too? Habit."
"Sex changes everything between a man and a woman."
"You don’t get to pick your family, but sometimes it’s good to have options."
"You can’t tell, that’s why we have to use condoms every single time."
"Inertia is death. Forward motion is everything."
"If you can’t get hysterical in the face of the plague, when can you get hysterical?"
"I figured if I brought out the coke I had now when people were crazy for it, I could buy myself a little time to figure things out."
"When you’re young, there’s a whole lot of stuff you say you’ll never do. Once you get a little older, the list tends to get a lot shorter."
"If you have to take a stand, home’s the best place to do it."
"They finally get time to slow down and look for the lesson."
"I don’t care a fig about you seducing anybody."
"What I care about is you sticking around here for a while."
"Me and Eddie exploring just how sexy safe sex can be."
"Only free women can wear their hair this short."
"Faced with your own possibilities, the hard part is knowing a speech is not required. All you have to say is yes."
"All the women I know talk about how black men prey on us. Almost nobody speaks on how well they protect us from anything, including themselves."
"I wasn’t afraid I was going to have to shoot Frank. I was sorry I hadn’t had an excuse."
"Black women are the only women in the world who make you wait until they decide whether or not they’re worth protecting."
"I was doing just fine being in the damn moment, being grateful for every sunrise, all that bullshit. But Eddie’s words made me greedy for more. More time. More love. More sweetness."
"There was just me, wanting time that wasn't promised, missing moments I hadn't even lived through yet, turning away from this day because I couldn't be sure about the next one."
"It takes away the possibility of pretending. Which is what I have been busy doing ever since I got here. Pretending that the Sewing Circus can change the world. Pretending we can rescue Imani. Pretending this place is so far away from the scene of the crime that the consequences can't catch me."
"There is nothing you can show me, nothing you can ask me to do, that will ever make me turn away from you. Nothing."
"All the strength and all the courage and all the peace we’re ever going to need starts right here with me loving you, just like this. And you loving me, just like this."
"The one without sin among them cast the first stone."
"I guess the Lord does work in mysterious ways."
"If you can't dance in the aisles for love, when the hell can you dance in the aisles?"
"The most complicated human emotions and not nearly enough facility in any language to articulate those feelings."
"I decided that finding that better way was going to be my life's work because I don't think a group of people can survive if the women don't even have enough sense to raise their children."
"Watching the sun rise, walking in the woods, falling in love, raising a child, helping my sister, protecting my family, living my life."
"Nothing was ever going to be this perfect or this complete again."
"What looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight."