"The Animators" Quotes
Two childhood friends navigate the complexities of success, friendship, and trauma as they create an animated film that forces them to confront their own pasts.
fiction | 386 pages | Published in 2017
Quotes
We had been told all our lives that we were too loud, too much, too queer, too brown, too poor, too smart, too hard to love, too selfish, too needy, too kind, too nice, too rough, too stupid, too unambitious, too ambitious, too fat, too skinny, too tall, too short, too slutty, too prudish, too angry, too happy, too sad, too American, too foreign, too everything.
Art was the only thing that could save us from ourselves.
We had to be our own lights in the darkness, our own compasses in the wilderness.
The best art is always a little dangerous.
Sometimes the only way to heal is to create.
Art is a way to make sense of the chaos, to find beauty in the brokenness.
We were drawn to the darkness because we knew that's where the truth lived.
We were misfits, but we found solace in each other's weirdness.
Our art was a rebellion against the world that tried to silence us.
In our work, we could be anyone, do anything, feel everything.
