Everybody’s got rights. A man tied to a bed got rights. A man down in a dungeon got rights. A little screaming baby got rights. Yeah, you got rights.…

- 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 is - you know,…

- Justin Torres

What we gotta do is, we gotta figure out a way to reverse gravity, so that we all fall upward, through the clouds and sky, all the way to Heaven.

- 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 we needed.

- Justin Torres

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

- 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 tenement buildings in Span…

- 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 th…

- Justin Torres

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

- Justin Torres

I totally bristle against words like "dysfunction" or "abuse."

- Justin Torres