Jameflint

“I understand now that nobody could have saved Ty but Ty. There’s no one else to blame. Not you. Not me. Ty was holding all the cards.”
― Cynthia Hand, The Last Time We Say Goodbye

“People kept saying, ‘It’s going to be all right.’ That’s what they told me, over and over and over, like Don’t you worry, little girl, it will all be okay, because there’s got to be some bullshit overall rule of the universe that no matter what happens, no matter how bad it gets, everything will be all right in the end.”

“Yeah,” I murmur.

“And you know what I kept thinking? I kept thinking, That is a fucking lie. It is not going to be all right. It will never be all right, ever, ever again. So stop fucking lying to me.”
― Cynthia Hand, The Last Time We Say Goodbye

“Where are you?" I wheeze into the floor. "Where did you go?”
― Cynthia Hand, The Last Time We Say Goodbye

“But here's the thing, that futuristic society where everybody is drugged to be happy all the time no matter what happens, it's horrible, monstrous even. It's like the end of humanity, because we are supposed to feel things.”
― Cynthia Hand, The Last Time We Say Goodbye