Abby O'Laughlin

“I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory

“Still, you tend to believe what you always believed, think what you always thought, expect what you always expected”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“When I cry - when I let myself cry - that's who I cry for. I don't cry for myself. I cry for the Cassie that's gone.
And I wonder what that Cassie would think of me.
The Cassie who kills.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Everyone is born a freak," notes Hayley. "Every newborn baby, wet and hungry and screaming, is a fresh-hatched freak who wants to have a good time and make the world a better place. . . . Most teenagers wind up in high school. And high school is where the zombification process becomes deadly.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory