Katherine Webber > Quotes

“She’s got a laugh you wish you could bottle up and wear like perfume whenever you’re feeling sad because it would always cheer you up.”
― Katherine Webber, Wing Jones

“Calm your heart, anxious one. Let me heal what is broken.”
― Katherine Webber, Twin Crowns

“But my happiness is a squishy kind of happiness, squeezing itself in where it can fit, pushing around all the sadness and the stress and the pressure, finding any empty spot, any crevice, and filling it. Don’t mind me, it says. I won’t bother anyone. I know this is a room for sadness, but I just need a little corner. I try to kick it out, because it isn’t welcome here, it didn’t even come wearing black, but it won’t go. It’s a stubborn guest. One that I secretly want to stay.”
― Katherine Webber, Wing Jones

“I'll fall!"
"Then I'll catch you," said Shen, as though it were the simplest thing in the world.”
― Katherine Webber, Twin Crowns

“Then he smiles at me and it’s like I’ve been living in darkness and now there is light.”
― Katherine Webber, Wing Jones

“Another wish, a secret one, flutters by, and it has Aaron’s name on it. I watch it for a moment, fluttering, floating, and then I grab it tight and crush it before anyone else can see it. I can feel the remnants of the mothy wish wings on my skin.”
― Katherine Webber, Wing Jones

“.You. are the thing you fear most." His face softened. "And are you really so scary?”
― Katherine Webber, Twin Crowns

“Well, considering I stole you out of your bed and dragged you across the country, giving you my shoes before we climb down a sheer cliff that will most certainly traumatize you is really the least I can do.”
― Katherine Webber, Twin Crowns

“A dark, cold feeling is spreading through me like frost on a windshield on a winter morning.”
― Katherine Webber, Wing Jones

“my name is rose,' said rose, wryly. 'i know my way around thorns.”
― Katherine Webber , Twin Crowns

“So I do what I do best. I keep quiet.”
― Katherine Webber, Wing Jones

“I know that when you’re happy, you shine. And I love it when you laugh, I love the sound, and I feel it.” He sits back and gestures with his hands around his chest. He does feel my feather giggles.”
― Katherine Webber, Wing Jones

“She narrowed her eyes. "Why are you being so nice to me all of a sudden?"
"Because you need me right now." Shen's smile was slow and lazy. "And I'm enjoying it.”
― Katherine Webber, Twin Crowns

“These aren’t the kind of tears that give you a sense of relief or wash the pain away. These tears hurt. Each and every one has made the perilous journey from my heart to my eyes. I feel like with every tear I’m losing a little bit more of who I thought my brother was, but I can’t stop them. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to stop.”
― Katherine Webber, Wing Jones

“It filled my heart to see him.”
― Katherine Webber, Wing Jones

“A color that doesn't have a word yet, and I love it.”
― Katherine Webber, Wing Jones

“I feel like it might take over, like I might drown in my wanting. Like I’ll be nothing but want. Like I won’t be able to think about anything or do anything but just want him.”
― Katherine Webber, Wing Jones

“I love how his lashes curl up. How dark his eyes are. I want to dive into them and swim as far as I can and then dive deeper and never come back up.”
― Katherine Webber, Wing Jones

“As the bathroom door slams behind me and I step outside, I feel the sun burning away my invisible scars, scorching me clean.”
― Katherine Webber, Wing Jones

“You look like Wendy Darling meets Indiana Jones,” he says. I’m wearing hiking boots and a pale blue nightgown. “I’ll take it,” I say.”
― Katherine Webber, Only Love Can Break Your Heart

“He’s elegant in a way that it isn’t fair for a boy to be; it’s a fierce elegance, like he’s a leopard or an eagle. I could watch him jump and run and just move all day long. I like to watch him when he’s still too. I like to watch him all the time.”
― Katherine Webber, Wing Jones

“She’s still smiling, but her eyes are suspiciously overbright. A familiar cloud follows her words, a big dark cloud I know all too well but don’t want around on my birthday. Maybe that makes me selfish.”
― Katherine Webber, Wing Jones

“I go sit next to her, and even with the state she’s in, I can’t keep the smile off my face. Can’t keep the gold from spilling out of me and all over her.”
― Katherine Webber, Wing Jones

“Wing,” he breathes, like a wish, like a prayer, and it’s as if it is my heart’s name and not my own because my heart flutters in my chest, desperate to get out to fly to him.”
― Katherine Webber, Wing Jones

“My heart stops its leaping and lies down. It tries to curl up into a ball, and I press my palm against my chest to comfort it.”
― Katherine Webber, Wing Jones

“I swallow and try to keep my imagination from playing roulette with all the things he could say.”
― Katherine Webber, Wing Jones

“Add a note

The clouds have risen, out of my reach, but now I can see the stars and they wink down at me like they’re saying “You go, girl” and I tilt my head back and smile up at them, and I hope that from way up there my smile looks like a bright shiny star winking back at them.”
― Katherine Webber, Wing Jones

“But I don’t run. Instead, I back into the corner, wishing I were so small that all you could see of me was the tuft of my hair and it was so small you’d mistake it for a dust ball. That’s how small I’m trying to make myself.”
― Katherine Webber, Wing Jones

“The best I can do for my poor heart is to press myself even closer to him and hope my heart will hear his, and that will calm it.”
― Katherine Webber, Wing Jones

“...and I felt my heart expand inside me, expand so much I was certain it was going to burst right out of my chest and keep growing and expanding until it burst through the walls of our little house and it wouldn’t stop, it would grow, grow, grow, so full, until it took over all of Atlanta and maybe Georgia and it wouldn’t stop there, it would float up into the air, my big beating heart, and it would go higher and higher until it was up among the stars, creating a new constellation. That is how happy I was.”
― Katherine Webber, Wing Jones