479 quotes found
Author · American · 1982
American author (born 1982)
“Everywhere he touches is fire. My whole body is burning up, the two of us becoming twin points of the same bright white flame.”
“Do the other kids make fun of you? For how you talk?''Sometimes.''So why don't you do something about it? You could learn to talk differently, you know.'But this is my voice. How would you be able ...”
“Things change after you die, though- I guess because dying is about the lonliest thing you can do.”
“I came to find you last night," Lena says more quietly. "When I knew there was going to be a raid...I snuck out. I was there whenwhen the regulators came. I barely made it out. Alex helped me. We h...”
“I want to apologize to you, she says calmly.Oh yeah? For what? I dont have time for this. We dont have time for this. I push away thoughts of what will happen to Hana even if I manage to escape. Sh...”
“Every day, streets papered with more and more for .Reward, reward, reward.Reward for information.If you see something, say something.A paper town, a paper world: paper rustling in the airm whisperi...”
“While other girls were blurry, displaying cracks or, at the very least, seams ripped jeans, coffee-stained T-shirts, hair that poufed up in the rain Sophia always looked sharp, clear, as if the r...”
“Alex, please.He balls his fists. Stop saying my name. You dont know me anymore.I do know you. Im still crying, swallowing back spasms in my throat, struggling to breathe. This is a nightmare and I ...”
“We'll walk together holding hands, and kiss in broad daylight, and love each other as much as we want to, and no one will ever try to keep up apart.”
“...I've never really had a party before.""Why did you have one now?" I say, just to keep him talking.He gives a half laugh. "I thought if I had a party, you would come.”
“How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all?”
“I used to think that's what love was: knowing someone so well he was like a part of you.”
“This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.”
“It's not my fault I can't be like you, okay? I don't get up in the morning thinking the world is one big, shiny, happy place, okay? That's just not how I work. I don't think I can be fixed.”
“And now I realize Lindsay's not fearless. She's terrified. She's terrified that people will find out she's faking, bullshitting her way through life, pretending to have everything together when rea...”
“I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.”
“Hana?" Lena says softly. "Are you okay?"That single stupid question breaks me. All the metal fingers relax me at once, and the tears they've been holding back come surging up at once. Suddenly I am...”
“Youre angry at me, she says.I stop crying at once. My whole body goes cold and still. She squats down beside me, and even though Im careful not to look up, not to look at her at all, I can feel her...”
“...into hate, into refusal, against hope and without fear”
“Is what I did really so much worse than what anybody else does?Is it really so much worse than what you do?Think about it.”
