“Each aberration of my skin is a song. Press your mouth against me. You will hear so much singing.”
― Girl in Pieces
― Girl in Pieces
“Mickey holds up the soggy paper. DIE. Don't you die.”
― Girl in Pieces
― Girl in Pieces
“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.”
― Who Could That Be at This Hour?
― Who Could That Be at This Hour?
“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.”
― Girl in Pieces
― 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.”
― Girl in Pieces
― Girl in Pieces
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