Kat Zhang > Quotes

“But understanding a thing and accepting it are so very different things.”
― Kat Zhang, What's Left of Me

“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, Once We Were

“I was terrified. I was eleven years old, and though I'd been told my entire life that it was entirely natural for the recessive soul to fade away, I didn't want to go. I wanted twenty thousand more sunrises, three thousand more hot summer days at the pool. I wanted to know what it was like to have a first kiss. The other recessives were lucky to have disappeared at four or five. They knew less.”
― Kat Zhang, What's Left of Me

“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, What's Left of Me

“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, What's Left of Me

“(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, What's Left of Me

“One second. A snapshot of fear and sweat and blood.”
― Kat Zhang, What's Left of Me

“I was caged in our body and caged in his arms and, somehow, the former was the real prison.”
― Kat Zhang, What's Left of Me

“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, Once We Were

“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, Once We Were

“The silence was like an unwelcome child, pulling at our hair, running its fingers over our lips.”
― Kat Zhang, What's Left of Me

“Keep hope.”
― Kat Zhang, What's Left of Me

“Maybe I really had been meant to fade away.”
― Kat Zhang, Once We Were

“Guilt was acid in our veins. It corroded everything. Our heart. Our lungs. Our throat.”
― Kat Zhang, Once We Were

“There's only so long you can be at the zoo before it gets old.”
― Kat Zhang, What's Left of Me

“We'd been born with our souls' fingers interlocked. What if we'd never let go?”
― Kat Zhang, What's Left of Me

“Jaime Cortae. Thirteen. Brown hair. Brown eyes. Lover of peanut butter. Sometime angel, sometime mischief maker. Always Jaime.”
― Kat Zhang, Once We Were

“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, What's Left of Me

“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, Once We Were

“We all react to hell differently.”
― Kat Zhang, Once We Were

“ I said. ”
― Kat Zhang, What's Left of Me

“Before sight, before sound, before smell or speech or feeling - was Addie.”
― Kat Zhang, Once We Were

“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, Echoes of Us

“Hope could be painful, too. Hope could be dangerous, if it grew too large and then shattered.”
― Kat Zhang, Echoes of Us

“At least when things are messy, it means they aren't sure. And that means they might change.”
― Kat Zhang, Echoes of Us

“Bringing happy memories into an awful place didn't make the memories any dimmer. The memories made the surroundings brighter.”
― Kat Zhang, Echoes of Us

“The stars looked like a map of possibilites above us.”
― Kat Zhang, Echoes of Us

“I can't breathe alone.”
― Kat Zhang, Echoes of Us

“Our lives are all stories, in the end.”
― Kat Zhang, Echoes of Us

“Run. The word reverberated inside us.

I will always wonder what might have happened if we'd listened.”
― Kat Zhang, What's Left of Me