Amy Zhang Quotes

“Because Liz Emerson held so much darkness within her that closing her eyes didn't make much of a difference at all.”
― Amy Zhang, Falling into Place

“We wonder what lies beyond.
One day, she will grow up and imagine death as an angel that will lend her wings, so she can find out.
Death, unfortunately, is not in the business of lending wings.”
― Amy Zhang, Falling into Place

“Gravity is our playmate, momentum is our friend. We are blurs of motion. We are racing, and we are both winning, because we do not race each other. We race the world, and as fast as it rotates, as fast as it revolves, we are faster.”
― Amy Zhang, Falling into Place

“Well, hello, darling with the ocean eyes,
How many secrets keep us apart?
A sea of poems, a field of sighs,
Can I cross and return to the start?”
― Amy Zhang, Falling into Place

“She would be an object in motion that would stay in motion, even if it meant flattening everything in her path.”
― Amy Zhang, Falling into Place

“I would have pulled her back. I would have saved her from falling, but she didn’t see my hand”
― Amy Zhang, Falling into Place

“Life is messy and the universe has an awful lot of people to keep track of. Sometimes things get screwed up. Sometimes bad things happen to good people. Sometimes good things happen to bad people.
That isn’t fair.
Bad things should happen to bad people.
And they will. They will.”
― Amy Zhang, This Is Where the World Ends

“Gravity is our playmate, momentum is our friend. We are blurs of motion. We are racing, and we are both winning, because we do not race each other.”
― Amy Zhang, Falling into Place

“I'm tired of watching, and waiting, and expecting things to work out. It never works out. It never works unless you demand,

So here I am, demanding.”
― Amy Zhang, This Is Where the World Ends