Every Good Boy Does Fine
“If you forced me to sum it up, I’d tell you that is the point of this book: a love for the steps, the joys of growing and outgrowing and being outgrown. And— just as in the Mozart— how time seems to stop, or even go in reverse, when you are learning.”
Have I Told You This Already?
“It seems to me that being a performer is the only job where you are both the car and the billboard advertising it.”
A Change of Affection
“I can’t explain all the mechanics of this radical transformation. I just know that no one can be in the very presence of the living God and remain the same.”
Straight Shooter
“Do anything but bore them or lie to them, and you’ll be okay.”
Spare
“If they didn’t know why I’d left, maybe they just didn’t know me. At all. And maybe they never really did.”
I’m Glad My Mom Died
“I tried desperately to understand and know my mother— what made her sad, what made her happy— at the expense of ever really knowing myself.”
Our Hope for Isabelle
“The world cannot define your child’s worth.”
The Office BFFs
“This book is several things— a scrapbook, a BFF journal, and a love letter to fans of our show.”
Excuse Me While I Disappear
“How do I know I am middle-aged?… the first time you see something advertised and really want it, but then you immediately think about ways you could get hurt using it.”
Trauma Bonds
“There’s an abuse pandemic going on in plain sight.”
We Were Dreamers
“I became more than just a comic book character— I became a part of an idea that everyone deserves to see themselves as superheroes, as the leads of their own stories.”
Mothertrucker
“This story is about women—about the way we bend, and love and listen, the way we forgive, forgive, forgive.”
Start Without Me
Is this book funny or not?
This is Going to Hurt
“However a health-care system might be set up or funded, the experience of being a doctor is utterly universal. The same heartbreak, the same hilarity, the same damaging work schedule, and, of course, the same baffling array of objects getting constantly inserted into orifices.”
Just As I Am
“For six decades, Ms. Tyson has shown us who we are; vulnerable, magnificent, pain-ridden, and beautifully human. Time and time again, she has put our humanity on display, never compromising her dignity while creating a new chapter in Black history.”
On the Spectrum
“When you read an autistic memoir, you’re not just getting an account of one life or gaining specialized knowledge about a tiny subsection of the population. You’re learning about what it means to be human. You’re learning about 1 in 45 people.”
In Order to Live
“The spark of human dignity is never completely distinguished, and given the oxygen of freedom and the power of love, it can grow again.”
Where I End
“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
Hyperbole and a Half
Unfortunate situations, flawed coping mechanisms, mayhem, and other things that happened.
Broken (in the best possible way)
“Victor was like, ‘Why is there a disco ball on the credit card?’ and I said, ‘It’s not for me. It's for some famous retired monkeys who aren’t allowed to roller skate anymore.’ And that’s when Victor threatened to turn off my credit cards.”