37 Quotes by Daniel José Older

You can't tiptoe toward justice. You can't walk up to the door all polite and knock once or twice, hoping someone's home. Justice is a door that, when closed, must be kicked in.

And Lando had calmed, settled back down, and without even having placed his lips against hers or felt her in the thrall of passion, he had felt a strange kind of peacefulness flood over him. It wasn’t the reeling outburst of excitement that came with victory at the card table, had none of the smugness that would rise in him at that blissfull culmination of a con. No, this was something much more long lasting and delicious. This was joy.

So if you ever wonder what we, the disappeared, dream of in our darkest hours, know that it is you: those who remain.

You crack slightly in the face of a world not built for you, and they load you up with medications til you can't feel anything, then they act surprised when your body and mind rebel and the rebellion is an explosion outward instead of another suicide attempt.

Crazy. It was the same word María and Tía Rosa flung at Grandpa Lázaro. The same word anyone said when they didn't understand something. "Crazy" was a way to shut people up, disregard them entirely.

The rain keeps starting and stopping like an anxious lover who doesn’t know if he should spend the night.

I see she's placed some coffee down there for them and I half consider taking a sip just to mess with everybody.

Names always matter," Maz said..."And yours is such a lonely one, when you think about it." Han had, plenty, and now that familiar sorrow crept back over his heart, an eclipse on never-ending repeat.

He pulled the accelerator and let the roaring engines fill him. Space awaited, that impossible vastness, as empty as his heart, where he could be perfectly free.