Anna Yeli > Anna's Quotes

“There's an easy method for finding someone when you hear them scream. First get a clean sheet of paper and a sharp pencil. Then sketch out nine rows of fourteen squares each. Then throw the piece of paper away and find whoever is screaming so you can help them. It is no time to fiddle with paper.”
― Lemony Snicket, Who Could That Be at This Hour?

“That's how hearts get broken, you know. When you believe in promises.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“+"I think u are having a different sort of heartbreak. Maybe a kind of heartbreak of being in the world when u don’t know how to be.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“I remember the stars that night. They were like salt against the sky, like someone spilled the shaker against very dark cloth. That mattered to me, their accidental beauty.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“Everyone has that moment, I think, the moment when something so...momentous happens that it rips your very being into small pieces. And then you have to stop. For a long time, you gather your pieces. And it takes such a very long time, not to fit them back together, but to assemble them in a new way, not necessarily a better way. More, a way you can live with until you know for certain that this piece should go there, and that one there.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“...when I look at my arms, I don't think revolutionary. I think sad, and pain, but not revolutionary.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“You can't break my heart, she cries, breathy and furious. You can't own my soul. What I have, I made, what I have is mine. What I have I made, what I have is mine.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“Dear Ellis, I have something really fucking angelic to tell you.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“Each aberration of my skin is a song. Press your mouth against me. You will hear so much singing.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“I room with Louisa. Louisa is older and her hair is like a red-and-gold noisy ocean down her back. There's so much of it, she can't even keep it in with braids or buns or scrunchies. Her hair smells like strawberries; she smells better than any girl I've ever known. I could breathe her in forever.

My first night here, when she lifted her blouse to change for bed, in the moment before that crazy hair fell over her body like a protective cape, I saw them, all of them, and I sucked my breath in hard.

She said, "Don't be scared, little one."

I wasn't scared. I'd just never seen a girl with skin like mine.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“That's what was in my head in the attic when I took broken glass from my tender kit and began to cut myself into tiny pieces.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“Mickey holds up the soggy paper. DIE. Don't you die.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“Don't let the cereal eat you. It's only a fucking box of cereal, but it will eat you alive if you let it.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“Everything and everybody that's busted can be fixed. That's what I think.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“People aren't nice, people aren't nice, you should know that by now.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“I blink at myself. I could be a girl, a real girl. I could be a possibility, with Mikey. Couldn't I?”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“Everyone here seems to know exactly what they need, but I leave without a thing.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“Keep your shit together and stay strong, he whispers in my ear.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“I'm always losing things.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“I'm tired and angry at me. For letting myself get smaller and smaller in the hopes that he would notice me more. But how can someone notice you if you keep getting smaller?”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces