76 quotes found
“A feeling can't kill you.”
“We're all born an empty page.”
“Trust is the strongest weapon.”
“We writers are resilient souls.”
“Wanting to be happy is not stupid.”
“The madness of youth made me unafraid.”
“Don't you miss it?" I say. "Being free."He laughs.”
“Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end.”
“A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue.”
“The clouds took on the shape of dancers; from somewhere far off, Pram heard music before the clouds became normal again.”
“I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new lungs. Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.”
“It taught that there are three versions of things: the one I see in my mind, and the one that carries onto the paper, and then what it ultimately becomes.”
“Jenna, standing in the doorway with her mouth and hand full of shelled pistachios, says, '"Real' is a dirty word in this place'.”
“Just being alive feels so arduous that all I want to do is climb under the covers and sleep.”
“Felix wasn't sure of his limits, if he had limits. After he'd been dead a while, he began to suspect he could swim to the bottom of the oceans. Beyond that. He suspected that he could swim so far d...”
“Felix had left his heart buried in the ground years ago, but he felt it crack apart.”
“I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again.”
“She's been conned, ruined, left for dead, and she's not going to forgive any of it. She will soldier on, if only out of spite.”
“I don't dare touch her. Loss is a knowledge I'm sorry to have. Perhaps the only thing worse than experiencing it, is watching it replay anew in someone else--all the awful stages picking up like a ...”
“He was now working his way through the many shades of grief. Sadness made everything gray, he'd learned, but there were different types of gray, some darker than others. There were dark spots in hi...”
“Shes a commodity in a sea of broken girls.”
“There is a silence so great that I can hear the ice crystals cracking and falling from eyelashes of girls who will never blink again.”
“We were his disposable things. Brought to him like cattle. Stripped of what made us sisters or daughters or children. There was nothing that he could take from usour genes, our bones, our wombsthat...”
“We didn't make ourselves," she says. "We aren't the greatest things to exist. I can't believe that. I won't believe that. We have too many faults.”
“He looks at me, and I don't know what he sees. I used to think it was Rose. But she's not here with us now, in this room. It's just him and me, and the books. I feel like our lives are in those boo...”
