Kat Zhang Quotes & Sayings

There's only so long you can be at the zoo before it gets old. — Kat Zhang

One second. A snapshot of fear and sweat and blood. — Kat Zhang

Jaime Cortae. Thirteen. Brown hair. Brown eyes. Lover of peanut butter. Sometime angel, sometime mischief maker. Always Jaime. — Kat Zhang

But understanding a thing and accepting it are so very different things. — Kat Zhang

If you're there, Eva ... if you're really there ... " His fingers tightened around our shoulder, digging into our skin. "I love you, too. Always"
Then he pushed us away. — Kat Zhang

But the thing is, sharing hands doesn't mean sharing goals. Sharing eyes doesn't mean sharing visions. And sharing a heart doesn't mean sharing the things we love. — Kat Zhang

Sometimes we make mistakes, Eva. Sometimes we make mistakes and they're so terrible the word mistake doesn't seem big enough to encompass it. But it happens. And the only way to ever make up for it is by cleaning up the mess. — Kat Zhang

For years, we'd been the thorn of the neighborhood, the dirty little secret that wasn't so secret. The girls who just wouldn't settle. — Kat Zhang

Guilt was acid in our veins. It corroded everything. Our heart. Our lungs. Our throat. — Kat Zhang

We'd been born with our souls' fingers interlocked. What if we'd never let go? — Kat Zhang

What if all the dreaming gets in the way of actually doing things? What if there isn't time for dreaming?"
"There's always time for dreaming," Jackson said. "If it makes you happy, then there's time. — Kat Zhang

Maybe I really had been meant to fade away. — Kat Zhang

Addie was warm and radiant next to me, making up half of us. But I - I was Eva, Eva, Eva, all the way through. — Kat Zhang

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

(Addie) I said. (If it had been you - if it were you trapped inside. If you were the one who couldn't move, I'd go back. I'd go back in a second.) — Kat Zhang

Everybody's got sad stories." Devon's voice was as ungiving as stone. "And everyone thinks they're so very special and broken because of them. — Kat Zhang

The silence was like an unwelcome child, pulling at our hair, running its fingers over our lips. — Kat Zhang

I was caged in our body and caged in his arms and, somehow, the former was the real prison. — Kat Zhang

We all react to hell differently. — Kat Zhang

Before sight, before sound, before smell or speech or feeling - was Addie. — Kat Zhang

Hope could be painful, too. Hope could be dangerous, if it grew too large and then shattered. — Kat Zhang

At least when things are messy, it means they aren't sure. And that means they might change. — Kat Zhang

Easy to not think about other people's suffering, when it was hidden away. Harder to stomach when it collapsed on your front porch. — Kat Zhang

Her smile wasn't just a physical thing, a curve of our lips. It was a warmth at the edge of my mind, where I felt her presence with the same assurance I felt out heartbeat. I remember. — Kat Zhang