A Spark Of Light Quotes
"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."
"Sometimes doing the right thing means doing something bad."
"If you were freezing to death, which would you consider the gem?"
"Do you want to walk upstairs to your room, or do you want me to carry you?"
"We are all drowning slowly in the tide of our opinions, oblivious that we are taking on water every time we open our mouths."
"What kind of capricious God would roll the dice like that?"
"There are just some compound words that you should never reverse."
"You think I’m an idiot? I’m not letting you go into the bathroom by yourself."
"If you don’t want to do it this way, you don’t get to do it at all."
"What we do here, what I do. Sometimes it lets children be children."
"It’s not honorable to quit. Depends on the circumstances."
"Being taken care of is a drug. Joy became addicted."
"What do you do when you realize you couldn’t save them?"
"Hope could do that to a person, paralyze you inside and out."
"Acting purely on instinct, Olive LeMay threw herself in front of the bullet."
"You don’t look at another person’s plate to see if they have more than you. You look to see if they have enough."
"The only person who can give birth to a white baby is a white woman."
"When it comes to abortion, race is first and foremost in everyone’s minds."
"The world turned out to be a whole lot bigger than my dad."
"Violence, from one angle, looked like mercy from another."
"The greatest weapon a negotiator had was information; knowledge was power."
"Knowledge was power, and he had left his daughter without a weapon."
"If growing up poor teaches you anything, it’s how to problem-solve."
"Babies are born flawless, and they deserve the world."
"The protest had mostly been nonviolent and civil. Except, Hugh noticed, right now."
"If people like you didn’t spout the bullshit you do, people like him wouldn’t exist."
"The brain can do a lot of things, but it can’t distinguish between what’s really happening, and what you’re imagining."
"Parenthood was like awakening to find a soap bubble in the cup of your palm, and being told you had to carry it while you parachuted from a dizzying height."
"You’re more likely to die from sneaking into an abortion clinic to make some kind of moral point."
"There was no right way to do the wrong thing. Except to not do it at all."
"When you cradled a liar’s head in your lap, it felt just like anyone else’s."
"All of us, we have families, too. Please. We have to get her to a hospital."
"If you can’t fly, run. If you can’t run, walk. If you can’t walk, crawl. But by all means, keep moving."
"Life is fatal; none of us are getting out of here breathing."
"You can’t give a fetus rights without stripping them away from the woman carrying it."
"If life began at conception, what about all those eggs and sperm that didn’t become babies?"
"That’s what you did for people you loved, right? You protected them from what they didn’t want to know."
"Perhaps the question wasn’t When does a fetus become a person? but When does a woman stop being one?"
"If you decided this was an exceptional case, what about if the mother was a heroin addict?"
"Sometimes violence was necessary to remind the fallen of God’s power."
"You don’t have to be grateful for something that’s your right."
"Wouldn’t you think I’m a girl, a girl who has everything?"
"It’s not about making the right choice. It’s about making the right choice for you."
"You could save your own life, or you could save hers, too."
"Every woman who’s ever been in your shoes has been scared. You’re not alone."