479 quotes found
Author · American · 1982
American author (born 1982)
“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 when—when the regulators came. I barely made it out. Alex helped me. We ...”
“I want to apologize to you,” she says calmly.“Oh yeah? For what?” I don’t have time for this. We don’t have time for this. I push away thoughts of what will happen to Hana even if I manage to escap...”
“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...”
“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...”
“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...”
“...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.”
“My boyfriend's an idiot," I say as soon as he lurches”
“Why do you flirt with Mr. Daimler? He's a perv, you”
“I think of Lindsay in the bathroom of Rosalita’s, and wonder how many people are clutching secrets like little fists, like rocks sitting in the pits of their stomachs. All of them, maybe.”
“She always imagined their voices entangled somewhere in the wires when they spoke, caught up in a grid she didn't fully understand, passing back and forth. Once the calls were disconnected, she ima...”
“I'd never undetstood how Hana Could lie so often and easily. But just like anyhting else, lying becomes easier the more you do it.”
