AJ Joseph

“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

“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

“Keep hope.”
― 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