AJ Joseph > AJ's Quotes

“Life was about spending time together , about having the time to walk together holding hands, talking quietly as the sun go down. It wasn't glamorous, but it was, in many ways, the best that life has to offer. Wasn't that how the old saying went? Who, on their deathbed, ever said they wished they had worked harder? Or spent less time enjoying a quiet afternoon? Or spent less time with their family?”
― Nicholas Sparks, True Believer

“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

“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

“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

“But understanding a thing and accepting it are so very different things.”
― 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

“(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

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

“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