“Always remember the acronym for "FEAR" can mean one of two things: Fuck Everything And Run or Face Everything And Recover.”
― Cupcake Brown, quote from A Piece of Cake
“She talked about wanting to be a part of something, wanting to be desired, to be 'special', craving to be loved. She talked about experiencing the kind of loneliness so immense it could swallow you up. She called it 'loneliness that crowds couldn't cure'.”
― Cupcake Brown, quote from A Piece of Cake
“It's okay to be afraid. It's not okay to let the fear STOP you.”
― Cupcake Brown, quote from A Piece of Cake
“Instead of asking WHY you had to do it, how about just thanking Him for safely bringing you THROUGH it.”
― Cupcake Brown, quote from A Piece of Cake
“I'd learned not to put a question mark where God put a period.”
― Cupcake Brown, quote from A Piece of Cake
“You do the foot work, and leave the results up to God.”
― Cupcake Brown, quote from A Piece of Cake
“Oprah got her money," she snapped. "You trying to get YOURS! No, turn off that fuckin' TV and get to studying!”
― Cupcake Brown, quote from A Piece of Cake
“My grandmother say you lay down with dogs you get up with fleas. A hard head makes a soft behind. Life is like a box of chocolates you never know what you're going to get.”
― Cupcake Brown, quote from A Piece of Cake
“Oh, get off the cross!” V shouted when I shared my thoughts with her on the phone. “We need the wood!”
― Cupcake Brown, quote from A Piece of Cake
“I didn’t know much about God, ’cept that if you pissed Him off, He’d getcha one day. My momma knew God—she was raised a Methodist. In fact, her daddy was a Methodist preacher. Still, Momma said she wanted more from God, so for the past couple of years she’d been searching for more. I got to go with her on some of those searches. First, we tried the Jehovah’s Witnesses. They were cool, till I learned they didn’t celebrate Christmas. God or no God, I wasn’t giving up Christmas! Then we tried the Muslims (or the “Black Muslims,” as Momma called them). I didn’t like them because when we got to their church (which they called a mosque), they made us change our clothes and put on some of their clothes: floor-length dresses and material to wrap our heads in so our hair wouldn’t show. And they searched us too, which pissed me off. But Momma seemed to understand; she said it was because white folks thought the Muslims were militant, so white folks was always messing with ’em—you know, harassing them, arresting them, threatening them. Momma said the Muslims had to be careful so that’s why they were searching folks. uring Momma’s God search, we tried a few other religions. I never really did care one way or the other. I never really seriously thought about God because, no matter what the religion, they all wanted you to be perfect. And I knew I was far from perfect. So I figured God wouldn’t wanna mess with me. I don’t know which religion Momma finally decided on. Maybe she realized she didn’t need a particular religion to know and love God or for God to know and love her. Whatever she decided, she also decided that she wasn’t going to choose for me. She wanted to wait until I was old enough and then let me decide my religion.”
― Cupcake Brown, quote from A Piece of Cake
“I wondered how television worked. I thought about how an interior decorator decided on colors and styles. I wondered, when babies tarted learning how to walk, if they didn't know that that couldn't walk.”
― Cupcake Brown, quote from A Piece of Cake
“You’re not always going to be able to see the big picture. But you’ve got to know that, no matter what, you’ll be okay. Keep praying.”
― Cupcake Brown, quote from A Piece of Cake
“What I do know is that love, real love, true unconditional love, transcends age, race, and religious beliefs. It sees the good, focuses on the good, and constantly emphasizes it.”
― Cupcake Brown, quote from A Piece of Cake
“You’ve got to learn to trust Him, Cup. You’re not always going to be able to see the big picture.”
― Cupcake Brown, quote from A Piece of Cake
“But ignorance manufactures denial. So though my eyes were sometimes black or swollen, my lips puffy or busted, though I often intentionally wore clothes that would hide the black and blue bruises scattered all over my body, or grit my teeth through the pain in an effort to walk so I could look as if nothing were wrong—when in fact my entire body was sore—I believed that as long as he didn’t break any bones, it wasn’t really violence.”
― Cupcake Brown, quote from A Piece of Cake
“I was still pondering her comments, when she hit me with the bomb. She said that the only time a woman is ready for a man in her life is when she didn’t need one.”
― Cupcake Brown, quote from A Piece of Cake
“Return me to that bitch?" I shouted to the sky. "Fuck you! I can take care of myself!”
― Cupcake Brown, quote from A Piece of Cake
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“Sometimes we have to bend," she says, "to survive.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Sparks Rise
“It was an awful word. Nothing. It made him sick at heart. He refused to believe it. Hebdemanded that there be something he could do. He demanded that his love be worth something to his child. If it wasn't, life was garbage. He hd to rulenout the idea that life was just a matter of accident, of percentages, because it was just too goddamn much to stand for. There had to be some way you could make yourself be felt.”
― Don Carpenter, quote from Hard Rain Falling
“Oh hell no, I thought. I am not wasting my first kiss on some guy who's skipping out on our first date.”
― Joey Graceffa, quote from In Real Life: My Journey to a Pixelated World
“Astral Weeks,” insofar as it can be pinned down, is a record about people stunned by life, completely overwhelmed, stalled in their skins, their ages and selves, paralyzed by the enormity of what in one moment of vision they can comprehend. It is a precious and terrible gift, born of a terrible truth, because what they see is both infinitely beautiful and terminally horrifying: the unlimited human ability to create or destroy, according to whim. It’s no Eastern mystic or psychedelic vision of the emerald beyond, nor is it some Baudelairean perception of the beauty of sleaze and grotesquerie. Maybe what it boils down to is one moment’s knowledge of the miracle of life, with its inevitable concomitant, a vertiginous glimpse of the capacity to be hurt, and the capacity to inflict that hurt.”
― Lester Bangs, quote from Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
“Caleb was no sorcerer, but in the only magic art that still remains to us, the magic of devoted, deathless love, Nature had been the mistress of his study; and from her teaching, all the wonder came.”
― Charles Dickens, quote from The Cricket on the Hearth
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