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Alaya Dawn Johnson QUOTES

Alaya Dawn Johnson QUOTES

1 " In the dark, I seem to stretch. Without a body to witness, I grow and grow with my pleasure. I feel like a constellation, a concept hung on a scattering of stars. "

― Alaya Dawn Johnson , The Summer Prince

2 " The past stands in the path of the future, knowing it will be crushed. "

― Alaya Dawn Johnson , The Summer Prince

3 " The summer kings are gods, and we are finally, in the end, just men. "

― Alaya Dawn Johnson , The Summer Prince

4 " Gods are what people worship. Men are what die. "

― Alaya Dawn Johnson , The Summer Prince

5 " After everything that's happened, her fear of requesting a prescription or of asking Trevor about his mother baffles her. Shouldn't life-altering events make you less afraid of the little stuff? But it's the little stuff that paralyzes her: talking, eating, dressing, sleeping. Everyone in school is afraid of the apocalypse; she is afraid of living through it. "

― Alaya Dawn Johnson , Love Is the Drug

6 " So I take my lover, my king, and I put him in a pedestal and I cut him down. A man, like the ones who ruined the world. "

― Alaya Dawn Johnson , The Summer Prince

7 " Amid all that blood of the dying sun, the verde was still alive. "

― Alaya Dawn Johnson , The Summer Prince

8 " To love light, you have to love dark. I'm not trying to be profound, I know you'll understand. I don't mean that you have to hate to love, or that you have to die to live.
I mean that sometimes, you turn out the lights just to turn them back on. "

― Alaya Dawn Johnson , The Summer Prince

9 " But I know better than anyone how dangerous trying can be, and how destructive. Maybe it's better to let bad things happen than tear yourself apart trying to stop the inevitable. "

― Alaya Dawn Johnson , The Summer Prince

10 " They think they've gone to heaven," he says. "They don't realize that means they're dead. "

― Alaya Dawn Johnson , The Summer Prince

11 " There's a song", I say.
"There's always a song", he says. "

― Alaya Dawn Johnson , The Summer Prince

12 " What is this, Enki?” says the Queen. “Do you not honor me?”

Enki’s smile is wide and bright. “I give you the greatest honor,” he says.

“You are dressed in the manner of a slave,” says she, “in a city where there are none.”

“There aren’t,” he agrees, though now his smile seems too sharp for his words. “But there is the verde.”

“And what of it?”

“I am dressed in the manner of my people.”

“Are we not your people?” And we see that the Queen is torn between amusement and anger. Enki is leading her in a dance, but has not tapped out its rhythm.

“You are everything to me.”

“And yet you come before us hardly as a king.”

“I come before you,” says Enki, “as a simple verde boy.” He takes a quick step back, almost skipping, and his dust-lightened hair bobs around his ears. “I will leave you as a king.” And when the drums start, that’s how he dances: as a king. "

― Alaya Dawn Johnson , The Summer Prince

13 " Ignoring your subconscious is like neglecting the termite infestation in your basement. Sooner or later, the consequences of neglect will far outweigh the momentary unpleasantness of clearing the nests. "

― Alaya Dawn Johnson , Love Is the Drug

14 " The kings die so that their choice of the next Queen can be irrevocable, unassailable, and unprejudiced. "

― Alaya Dawn Johnson , The Summer Prince

15 " You can’t samba in a data stream, "

― Alaya Dawn Johnson , The Summer Prince

16 " How much of yourself will you give them in exchange? "

― Alaya Dawn Johnson , The Summer Prince

17 " The kingdom of sleep demands its forfeits, and the world looks very different through eyes cracked and yellow with its denial. "

― Alaya Dawn Johnson , Love Is the Drug

18 " morality is the change that falls from your pockets when you climb up the ladder. "

― Alaya Dawn Johnson , Love Is the Drug

19 " A good rival is almost like a friend, isn’t she? You make me try harder. "

― Alaya Dawn Johnson , The Summer Prince

20 " When the world is destroyed, someone must remake the world. I think you’d call that art. "

― Alaya Dawn Johnson , The Summer Prince