Kat Zhang Quotes

#1. 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.

Kat Zhang

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

Kat Zhang

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

Kat Zhang

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

Kat Zhang

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

Kat Zhang

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

Kat Zhang

#7. 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.

Kat Zhang

#8. The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#9. What we cannot express by the art of thinking, by the art of science or philosophy or logic, we can and should express by the poetic, visual, or some other arts.

Naum Gabo

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

Kat Zhang

#11. It was a fun job but I'd never claim Busted was anything other than a pop band.

Charlie Simpson

#12. (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.)

Kat Zhang

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

Kat Zhang

#14. I can't sleep, I don't have what to do... I'm ill.... wow... the best choice will be listening to a podcast what more awesome than that?

Deyth Banger

#15. We all react to hell differently.

Kat Zhang

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

Kat Zhang

#17. I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.

Anatole France

#18. 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.

Kat Zhang

#19. A tear rolls from Harlow's eye. "You've already won me. Your best quality is your heart Beck. It was your heart I fell in love with. ~Harlow

S.M. Stryker

#20. 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.

Kat Zhang

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

Kat Zhang

#22. Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.

Ovid

#23. 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.

Kat Zhang

#24. We have got to protect privacy rights. We have got to protect our God-given, constitutionally protected civil liberties, and we are not doing that in the federal government. The Department of Homeland Security, as well as the TSA, is a great culprit in being a Gestapo-type organization.

Paul Broun

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

Kat Zhang

#26. 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.

Kat Zhang

#27. 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.

Kat Zhang

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

Kat Zhang

#29. Speculation is a fool's game, but I've seen many political projections that look like the Taliban could hold most of the country, and possibly Kabul, within perhaps a short time.

Eliza Griswold

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

Kat Zhang

#31. If my life was to be just a single note in an endless symphony, how could I not sound it out for as long and as loudly as I could?

Lauren Wolk

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

Kat Zhang

#33. It's why you create characters: so you can argue with yourself.

Michael Ondaatje

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

Kat Zhang