True Biz
Sara Nović
Top 10 Best Quotes
“He took her by the wrists and held her own hands out before her. She looked down at her palms and understood - her being was implied, her potential thoughts and feelings coursing through her body, the names of everything she knew and those she didn't yet, all in the perpetual existence in her fingertips.”
“Being motherless was different than being fatherless. It was primal, the archetype for human suffering, like losing the North Star.”
“The fact that he had done this many times before mitigated the length of the homesickness, but not its intensity.”
“Sign language had been so thoroughly stigmatized that in trying to avoid it, parents had unknowingly opted for a modern version of institutionalization, locking their children away in their own minds.”
“So please, don’t judge me. There is no one more disappointing to me than myself.”
“She would learn as much as she could and do whatever she could to dismantle all that she knew to be broken, brick by brick, by hand if she had to. She would keep the bricks, though. She would use them to build something new.”
“Who would hear the secrets we bear?”
“What cruel disease, she thought, to steal from a person all their best moments, and make them relive the worse ones nightly. To force their loved ones to deliver these blows of memory until they, too, were subsumed by the echoing grief.”
“Of course, that was their privilege-to conflate majority with superiority.”
“Nine out of ten deaf kids had hearing parents, and those parents held Deaf fate in their hands—the fate of their own children, of course, and the future of the Deaf community at large. Problem being, most parents understood deafness only as explained to them by medical professionals: as a treachery of their genes, something to be drilled out.”
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