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Top 15 Justin Torres Quotes (2025 Update)

Justin Torres Quote: “What happens when you die?” I asked. “Nothing happens.” he said. “Nothing happens forever.”

1. “What happens when you die?” I asked. “Nothing happens.” he said. “Nothing happens forever.”

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Justin Torres Quote: “Shame doesn’t exist in the animal kingdom. It’s a human conception.”

2. “Shame doesn’t exist in the animal kingdom. It’s a human conception.”

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Justin Torres Quote: “Animals don’t think in terms of victims and villains, or good and bad, or evil, or shame.”

3. “Animals don’t think in terms of victims and villains, or good and bad, or evil, or shame.”

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Justin Torres Quote: “I don’t think that any family has a function. I just think that a family is. It just exists.”

4. “I don’t think that any family has a function. I just think that a family is. It just exists.”

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Justin Torres Quote: “The magic of God is three. We were the magic of God.”

5. “The magic of God is three. We were the magic of God.”

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Justin Torres Quote: “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. What you don’t got is power.”

6. “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. What you don’t got is power.”

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Justin Torres Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

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Justin Torres Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

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Justin Torres Quote: “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, your father’s violent but he loves you and that’s just the way it is – later on you realize that this is like different, shameful, blah blah blah.”

9. “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, your father’s violent but he loves you and that’s just the way it is – later on you realize that this is like different, shameful, blah blah blah.”

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Justin Torres Quote: “When we were three together, we stuck our fingers into each other’s eyes and pulled chairs out from underneath.”

10. “When we were three together, we stuck our fingers into each other’s eyes and pulled chairs out from underneath.”

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Justin Torres Quote: “The son will not speak to her. She watches him, and she wants to tell him that he can put all his hate on her; she will take it all, if that’s what he needs her to do. Listen, really listen, and that’s what she is saying in her silence. The boy can’t help but hear.”

11. “The son will not speak to her. She watches him, and she wants to tell him that he can put all his hate on her; she will take it all, if that’s what he needs her to do. Listen, really listen, and that’s what she is saying in her silence. The boy can’t help but hear.”

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Justin Torres Quote: “Sometimes I would be very upset because my memories are very murky from my childhood, but there are certain emotional memories or emotional truths that are painful, and things that I know to be the case and I had to nail them down, and that was difficult.”

12. “Sometimes I would be very upset because my memories are very murky from my childhood, but there are certain emotional memories or emotional truths that are painful, and things that I know to be the case and I had to nail them down, and that was difficult.”

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Justin Torres Quote: “Do it to me.′ ‘What?’ we asked. ‘Make me born.”

13. “Do it to me.′ ‘What?’ we asked. ‘Make me born.”

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Justin Torres Quote: “I totally bristle against words like “dysfunction” or “abuse.””

14. “I totally bristle against words like “dysfunction” or “abuse.””

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Justin Torres Quote: “Hours passed. A man came by twice and poked his head into my theater and looked at me questioningly. The third time, he came in and sat next to me and asked, “How many times you plan on watching this crap?” I shrugged my shoulders. He was wearing corduroy pants, and I would have liked to drag my fingernail across his thigh. “You hiding?” “I’m just sitting here,” I said. “Yeah, never mind,” he said. “I guess you’re a bit young for that. What about your folks?”

15. “Hours passed. A man came by twice and poked his head into my theater and looked at me questioningly. The third time, he came in and sat next to me and asked, “How many times you plan on watching this crap?” I shrugged my shoulders. He was wearing corduroy pants, and I would have liked to drag my fingernail across his thigh. “You hiding?” “I’m just sitting here,” I said. “Yeah, never mind,” he said. “I guess you’re a bit young for that. What about your folks?”

— Justin Torres

Justin Torres Quote: “Why won’t you look at me, my brothers, why won’t you take my eyes.”

16. “Why won’t you look at me, my brothers, why won’t you take my eyes.”

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Justin Torres Quote: “And me now. Look at me. See me there with them, in the snow – both inside and outside their understanding. See how I made them uneasy. They smelled my difference – my sharp, sad, pansy scent. They believed I would know a world larger than their own. They hated me for my good grades, for my white ways. All at once they were disgusted, and jealous, and deeply protective, and deeply proud.”

17. “And me now. Look at me. See me there with them, in the snow – both inside and outside their understanding. See how I made them uneasy. They smelled my difference – my sharp, sad, pansy scent. They believed I would know a world larger than their own. They hated me for my good grades, for my white ways. All at once they were disgusted, and jealous, and deeply protective, and deeply proud.”

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Justin Torres Quote: “I turned new eyes to them, a newly caustic gaze. I sensed a keen power of observation in myself, an intelligence, but sour.”

18. “I turned new eyes to them, a newly caustic gaze. I sensed a keen power of observation in myself, an intelligence, but sour.”

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Justin Torres Quote: “When our mother was sleeping, when the air did not smell like sweat or breath or mold, when the air was still and light, those mornings when silence was our secret game and our gift and our sole accomplishment-we wanted less: less weight, less work, less noise, less father, less muscles and skin and hair. We wanted nothing, just this, just this.”

19. “When our mother was sleeping, when the air did not smell like sweat or breath or mold, when the air was still and light, those mornings when silence was our secret game and our gift and our sole accomplishment-we wanted less: less weight, less work, less noise, less father, less muscles and skin and hair. We wanted nothing, just this, just this.”

— Justin Torres

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