#tommy orange

[rubypomegranates]

“Life will do its best to get at you. Sneak up from behind and shatter you, into tiny unrecognizable pieces. You have to be ready to pick everything up pragmatically. Keep your head down and make it work.”

Tommy Orange “There There”

[specificpollsaboutbooks]

Wrecking Quotes

Round 1 Part 2

Quote 24 VS Quote 105

Quote 24

Quote 105

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Voting ended onDec 28, 2025

Quotes under the cut

Quote 24 :

"Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold..."

– The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton

Quote 105 :

As Tony has them walk away from the battle, they talk about how they wish it didn't have to be that way. They wish they could all have made it.

Tony has Optimus Prime say, "We're made of metal, made hard, able to take it. We were made to transform. So if you get a chance to die, to save someone else, you take it. Every time. That's what Autobots were put here for."

– There There, Tommy Orange

[privateagonies]

Something about it will make sense. The bullets have been coming from miles. Years. Their sound will break the water in our bodies, tear sound itself, rip our lives in half. The tragedy of it all will be unspeakable, the fact we've been fighting for decades to be recognized as a present-tense people, modern and relevant, alive, only to die in the grass wearing feathers.

— Tommy Orange, There There

[whaleb0nez]

The days did not pass but cracked open, then fizzled out into nothingness, and the nothingness was me, just as the endless gray became me.

— wandering stars by tommy orange

[devilsskettle]

There There by Tommy Orange

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

Have you read There There by Tommy Orange (2018)?

yes

no

I didn't finish it

I've never heard of it

Voting ended onJun 17, 2025

[reverie-quotes]

A bad thing doesn't stop happening to you just because it stops happening to you. In therapy this is called trauma.

— Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

[jaspell]

Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars // Majd Kayyal, trans. Thoraya El-Rayyes, Palestine +100