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Helium QUOTES

Helium QUOTES

41 " I wonder how long it took to convince
the first rifle that it could hold a note
instead of a bullet, but still fire into a crowd
and make everyone move "

― Rudy Francisco , Helium

42 " The word “repurpose”
means to take an object
and give it amnesia. "

― Rudy Francisco , Helium

43 " trying to convince my shadow that I’m someone worth following. "

― Rudy Francisco , Helium

44 " a weapon will always be a weapon
but we choose how we fight the war "

― Rudy Francisco , Helium

45 " Simeona
My mother
wears her wrinkles
the way an ocean
wears a wave.
She is the only
body of water
that refuses
to let me drown "

― Rudy Francisco , Helium

46 " The most destructive instruments can still create a melody worth dancing to. "

― Rudy Francisco , Helium

47 " I bet he pours whiskey on his dreams
until they taste like good ideas, "

― Rudy Francisco , Helium

48 " Most people have no idea
that tragedy and silence
often have the exact same address. "

― Rudy Francisco , Helium

49 " When you are the only black man
in the whole neighborhood,

your skin is that one friend who
meets everyone before you do.

It wears a wife beater
and house shoes,

it knocks over the
neighbor's mailbox,

it cusses in front of the kids
and plays the music too loud,

but you actually don't do
any of those things.

It's 7 PM.
It's Wednesday
and you are just

walking home. "

― Rudy Francisco , Helium

50 " Why Did You Leave? Because you wouldn’t let me love both of us at the same time. "

― Rudy Francisco , Helium

51 " A moment that is diligently
staring at its watch, trembling with
nervousness, frustrated,
and bursting at the seams,
wondering what’s taking me
so long to arrive. "

― Rudy Francisco , Helium

52 " Instructions Gather your mistakes, rinse them with honesty and self-reflection, let dry until you can see every choice and the regret becomes brittle, cover the entire surface in forgiveness, remind yourself that you are human and this too is a gift. "

― Rudy Francisco , Helium

53 " I take my compliments the same way I take my coffee. I don’t drink coffee. "

― Rudy Francisco , Helium

54 " Remember we are never given anything that we can't handle. When the world crumbles around you, sometimes you gotta look at the wreckage and then build a new one out of all the pieces that are still here. Remember that you are still here. The human heart, it beats approximately 4,000 times per hour. And each pulsin' and each throbbin' and each palpitation is a trophy engraved with the words "you are still alive. "

― Rudy Francisco , Helium

55 " Tell me a story
and let's laugh like it's the only
think keeping us alive.

Play a song
and give the stereo
permission to use its
outside voice.

Let's sing loudly,
offbeat and out of tune.
Let the world know
we don't care how it sounds
because the only key we need
is already in the ignition.

Let the sky turn the windshield
into a stage. Watch it dance like he scenery
is auditioning to be part of our story.

Let's just go.
Drive until our troubles
phantom in the rearview mirror

and we forget the exist,
at least
for a moment. "

― Rudy Francisco , Helium

56 " Yesterday, I injured myself
and the explanation didn't make sense.

I said, "Well, I was walking..."
and that was the end of the story.

At this age,
my body is a stranger that I
keep meeting over and over again.

The words "I am" are slowly
transforming into "I used to be "

― Rudy Francisco , Helium

57 " I enjoy....
laughing

for absolutely no reason at all,
but I don't allow myself to cry
as often as I need to.

I have solar-powered confidence
and a battery-operated smile.
My hobbies include: editing my life story,

hiding behind metaphors,
and trying to convince my shadow
that I'm someone worth following.

I don't know much,
but I do know this:
Heaven is full of music,

and God listens to my heartbeat "

― Rudy Francisco , Helium

58 " Yesterday I tripped

over my self-esteem, landed on my pride
and it shattered like an iPhone
with a broken face. Now I can't even tell

who's trying to give me a compliment. "

― Rudy Francisco , Helium

59 " I don't know much,
but I do know this:
Heaven is full of music,

and God listens to my heartbeat
on his iPod. It reminds him
that we still got work to do. "

― Rudy Francisco , Helium

60 " And sometimes
it all arrives at once.

The anxiety, the fear,
the voices that scratch
your confidence like
a chalkboard and somehow
all the oxygen in the room
suddenly becomes water
and you begin to wonder if
you have what it takes
to grow gills. You wonder
if you can blend in with the fish.
You wonder if you
will ever breathe again.

And the answer is
not every building that shakes
will collapse.

The answer is
not everything that chips
will crumble.

The answer is
this is temporary
and yes, you will. "

― Rudy Francisco , Helium