Kat Zhang Quotes

#1. What if all the dreaming gets in the way of actually doing things? What if there isn't time for dreaming?"
"There's always time for dreaming," Jackson said. "If it makes you happy, then there's time.

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#2. Her smile wasn't just a physical thing, a curve of our lips. It was a warmth at the edge of my mind, where I felt her presence with the same assurance I felt out heartbeat. I remember.

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#3. Maybe I really had been meant to fade away.

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#4. If you're there, Eva ... if you're really there ... " His fingers tightened around our shoulder, digging into our skin. "I love you, too. Always"
Then he pushed us away.

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#5. We'd been born with our souls' fingers interlocked. What if we'd never let go?

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#6. But the thing is, sharing hands doesn't mean sharing goals. Sharing eyes doesn't mean sharing visions. And sharing a heart doesn't mean sharing the things we love.

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#7. Sometimes we make mistakes, Eva. Sometimes we make mistakes and they're so terrible the word mistake doesn't seem big enough to encompass it. But it happens. And the only way to ever make up for it is by cleaning up the mess.

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#8. Jaime Cortae. Thirteen. Brown hair. Brown eyes. Lover of peanut butter. Sometime angel, sometime mischief maker. Always Jaime.

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#9. Hope could be painful, too. Hope could be dangerous, if it grew too large and then shattered.

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#10. At least when things are messy, it means they aren't sure. And that means they might change.

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#11. I was caged in our body and caged in his arms and, somehow, the former was the real prison.

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#12. There's only so long you can be at the zoo before it gets old.

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#13. The silence was like an unwelcome child, pulling at our hair, running its fingers over our lips.

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#14. Guilt was acid in our veins. It corroded everything. Our heart. Our lungs. Our throat.

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#15. One second. A snapshot of fear and sweat and blood.

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#16. Easy to not think about other people's suffering, when it was hidden away. Harder to stomach when it collapsed on your front porch.

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#17. Addie was warm and radiant next to me, making up half of us. But I - I was Eva, Eva, Eva, all the way through.

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#18. For years, we'd been the thorn of the neighborhood, the dirty little secret that wasn't so secret. The girls who just wouldn't settle.

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#19. Everybody's got sad stories." Devon's voice was as ungiving as stone. "And everyone thinks they're so very special and broken because of them.

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#20. (Addie) I said. (If it had been you - if it were you trapped inside. If you were the one who couldn't move, I'd go back. I'd go back in a second.)

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#21. Before sight, before sound, before smell or speech or feeling - was Addie.

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#22. We all react to hell differently.

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#23. But understanding a thing and accepting it are so very different things.

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