479 quotes found
Author · American · 1982
American author (born 1982)
“Suicide. A sideways word, a word that people whisper and mutter and cough: a word that must be squeezed out behind cupped palms or murmured behind closed doors. It was only in dreams that I heard t...”
“And you completely blow me away and rip my world up and everything else, and then you go back to ignoring me. I blew you away? I squeak out before I can stop myself. He stares at me steadily. You b...”
“Let me show you”
“See? my mother would say, smiling at me and my sister, Carol, in turn. We live in the greatest country on earth. See how lucky we are?And yet the ash continued swirling down, and the smells of deat...”
“Sympathizer.Its only slightly better than the other word that followed me for years after my moms death, a snakelike hiss, undulating, leaving its trail of poison: Suicide.A sideways word, a word t...”
“It's the rule of the wilds. You must be bigger, and stronger, and tougher. A coldness radiates through me, a solid wall that is growing, piece by piece, in my chest. He doesn't love me.He never lov...”
“But all you see is the crap. So you don't have to believe in anything. So you'll have an excuse to fail.”
“....love and desire enjoy a symbiotic relationship, meaning that one cannot exist without the other. Desire is an enemy to contentment; desire is illness, a feverish brain. Who can be considered he...”
“People are stubborn and stupid. They're irrational. they're destructive. that's the point, isn't it? That's the whole reason for the cure. People will no longer destroy their own lives. They won't ...”
“Here's the last thing that occurs to me as Sarah recedes in the rearview mirror, slamming out of the car, jogging across the parking lot: If you're one tardy away from missing out on a big competit...”
“You should only fall in love with people who will fall in love with you back.”
“I met an Invalid, and fell for his art. He showed me his smile, and went straight for my heart.”
“What's poetry?" I've never heard the word before, but I like the sound of it. It sounds elegant and easy, somehow, like a beautiful woman turning in a long dress.”
“Everyone is asleep. They've all been asleep for years. You seemed ... awake.' Alex is whispering now. He closes his eyes, opens them again.'I'm tired of sleeping.”
“When she was little, she'd liked to pretend that stars were really lights anchoring distant islands, as if she wasn't looking up but only out across a dark sea. She knew the truth now but still fou...”
“Could it be? Samantha Kingston? Home? On a Friday? I roll my eyes. I dont know. Did you do a lot of acid in the sixties? Could be a flashback. I was two years old in 1960. I came too late for the p...”
“Amazingly, I can still see the stars: whole galaxies blooming from nothing - pink and purple suns, vast silver oceans, a thousand white moons.”
“I'm not ugly but I'm not pretty either. Everything is in-between. I have eyes that aren't green or brown, but a muddle. I'm not thin but I'm not fat either. the only thing you could definitely say ...”
“There is only what you want and what happens. There is only grabbing on and holding tight in the darkness.”
“She lives for this-the fight, the battle for survival. She actually enjoys it.”
