173 quotes found
Novelist · American
American novelist
“They could not write their names, but I can write mine, and I will again, somewhere where it will last for a long, long time. I will find Ky, and then I will find that place.”
“I don't know what happens after we die. It doesn't seem to me like there can be much past this. But I suppose I can conceive that what we make and do can last beyond us. Maybe in a different place,...”
“He watches the sun out of the world and the stars into it and sometimes I wonder if he watches the sun come up again. Is it hard to sleep when you know you are almost at the end? Do you not want to...”
“So I fight. I fight the only way I know, with thinking of Ky, even thought the pain of missing him is so strong I can hardly stand it... I think of him, I think of him, I think of him.”
“I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.”
“Blue is the most common eye color in Oria Province, but there is something different about his eyes and I'm not sure what it is. More depth? I wonder what he sees when he looks at me. If he seems t...”
“Any other questions?""Just one," I say. "What color are your eyes?" I want to know what he thinks, how he sees himself - the real Ky - when he dares to look."Blue," he says sounding surprised, "the...”
“The Society wants us to be afraid of dying. But I'm not. I'm only afraid of dying wrong.”
“It dances on the air for a moment before it falls, too. A fresh gust of wind almost saves it, but a worker catches sight of it and lifts a tube up to suck the paper from the air, to suck the words ...”
“And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.”
“I'm so ”
“Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. I feel it so much that I am water, a river of want,pooled in the shape of a girl.”
“The rain turns lighter, turns to snow. And I have a sense that we have not yet arrived, that we are still reaching. For each other. For who we are meant to be.”
“People can be miracles.”
“One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided...”
“Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.”
“The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.”
“There is so much want. I feel it so much that I am water, a river of want, pooled in the shape of a girl named Cassia.”
“I know how it feels when people look right through you, or worse, see you as something or someone other than what you are.”
“Ky still looks at me and I wonder for a moment if he is going to ask me what I am thinking about. But of course, he doesn't. He doesn't learn things by asking questions... He learns by watching.”
