Painful Quotes by Justin Torres

Sometimes I would be very upset because my memories are very murky from my childhood, but there are certain emotional memories or emotional truths…

— Justin Torres

Shame doesn't exist in the animal kingdom. It's a human conception.

— Justin Torres

“I’m an adult,” the boy says. “I got rights.” “Everybody’s got rights. A man tied to a bed got rights. A man down in…

— Justin Torres

As you become an adult, shame gets introduced and reintroduced constantly to you. So where something that, to a child, just is what it…

— Justin Torres

I don't think that any family has a function. I just think that a family is. It just exists.

— Justin Torres

Animals don't think in terms of victims and villains, or good and bad, or evil, or shame.

— Justin Torres

“All that pent up longing,” he says, “all that desire to flail and flap around. Them wings have needs.”

— Justin Torres

We hit and we kept on hitting; we were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful — little animals, clawing at what…

— Justin Torres

“Each was radiant, gorgeous. How they posed for me.”

— Justin Torres

This is your heritage,' he said, as if from this dance we could know about his own childhood, about the flavor and grit of…

— Justin Torres

“WE ALL THREE sat at the kitchen table in our raincoats, and Joel smashed tomatoes with a small rubber mallet. We had seen it…

— Justin Torres