29 Quotes by Tommy Orange

Everyone's gonna think it's about the money. But who doesn't fucking want money? It's about why you want money, how you get it, then what you do with it that matters.

I hadn't grown up fat. Not overweight. Not obese, or plus-size, or whatever you can call it now without sounding politically incorrect, or insensitive, or unscientific. But I always *felt* fat. Did that somehow meat I was destined to one day *be* fat, or did my obsession with being fat even when I wasn't lead to me eventually being fat? Does what we try most to avoid come after us because we paid too much attention to it with our worry?

We've all been through a lot we don't understand in a world made to either break us or make us so hard we can't break even when it's what we need most to do.

Everything is new and doomed.

Being Indian has never been about returning to the land. The land is everywhere or nowhere.

Jacquie can't remember a day going by when at some point she hadn't wished she could burn her life down. Today actually, she hadn't had that thought today. That was something. That was not nothing.

This unflinching stare into the void of addiction and depravity, this is the kind of thing only a camera can keep its eye wide open for.

I'm not sick. I'm dying." "Yeah, but you're sick." "I'm sick from dying.

We got bad blood in us,' Sixto said. 'Some of these wounds get passed down. Same with what we owe. We should be brown. All that white you see that you got on your skin? We gotta pay for what we done to our own people.' Sixto's eyes were closed, his head bent down a little.