Katja Millay

“In memory of my father, because he said so”

— Katja Millay

“If self-adoration were cologne, he would be the boy you couldn't stand next to without choking.”

— Katja Millay

“I may not be allowed to love her, but that doesn't mean I'll let anyone hurt her.”

— Katja Millay

“And that's the most confusing part - figuring out what's true.”

— Katja Millay

“The loud sounds make it impossible to hear the soft ones, and the soft sounds are the ones you have to be…

— Katja Millay

“But you can only go so long being angry before you learn to hate.”

— Katja Millay

“I'm tired of being responsible for other people's misery. I can't even put up with my own.”

— Katja Millay

“The world should be full of Josh Bennetts. But it’s not. I had the only one. And I threw him away.”

— Katja Millay

“The running helps. It gives me something, or maybe more accurately, it takes something away.”

— Katja Millay

“It's a little bit devastating being surrounded by people who can do what you can't anymore. People who create. People whose souls…

— Katja Millay

“Congratulations, then. You wanted to be ruined? Well, you did yourself one better because you wrecked me, too, Sunshine. Now we’re both…

— Katja Millay

“When you look at her what do you feel?... Joy, fear, frustration, longing, friendship, anger, need, despair, love, lust?" "Yes." "Yes, what?"…

— Katja Millay

“It’s a chair. Stop overanalyzing it. I’m not selling it and I’m not giving it to someone else. I made it for…

— Katja Millay

“I've done goodbyes before, and I can do this one, too. Somehow this one hurts worse than the others; because this one…

— Katja Millay

“My phone is on my bed, whispering in my ear like a bottle of scotch to a recovering alcoholic, while the rain…

— Katja Millay

“Dying really isn’t so bad after you’ve done it once. And I have. I’m not afraid of death anymore. I’m afraid of…

— Katja Millay

“It’s an age old story … Boy meets girl. Boy asks girl to touch him inappropriately. Girl dazzles boy with her impressive…

— Katja Millay

“Josh isn’t in love with me and I’m not in love with him.” “Sell it to someone who’s buying, Sunshine. Have you…

— Katja Millay

“I live in a world without magic or miracles. A place where there are no clairvoyants of shapeshifters, no angels or superhuman…

— Katja Millay

“I haven’t started counting yet. I wonder if it’s just me or if it’s like that for everybody; that every time someone…

— Katja Millay

“I just wanted one person who would look at me and not want to see someone else.” “Who looks at you like…

— Katja Millay

“What did you call her?" she asks but I don't think it's her real question. "Sunshine," I say, and she smiles like…

— Katja Millay

“People like to say love is unconditional, but it's not, and even if it was unconditional, it's still never free. There's always…

— Katja Millay

“It amazes me how people are so afraid of what can happen in the dark, but they don't give a second thought…

— Katja Millay

“I don’t know anything about art so I can’t tell you that it’s watercolor or acrylic or that it’s on canvas or…

— Katja Millay

“Now I'm standing in black stiletto heels in the middle of a Norman Rockwell painting.”

— Katja Millay

“I shrug. I'm an excellent shrugger. It's rivaled only by my ability to nod.”

— Katja Millay

“I've scared, offended or made everyone uncomfortable enough to stay away. Mission accomplished.”

— Katja Millay

“I think I'm the one who's disappointed. I know that she's just a little bit less mine than she was a few…

— Katja Millay

“Right now I think you're acting like me and I don't like you very much.”

— Katja Millay

“I didn't belong in this world anymore. It's not that I wanted to be dead, I just felt like I should be.”

— Katja Millay

“And if my Sea od Tranquility were real, it would be this place, here, with him".”

— Katja Millay

“...my closet and I are on my own. My closet is of no use to me. It may actually be laughing at…

— Katja Millay

“Girls always want to change the rules in the middle of the game.”

— Katja Millay

“So let's pretend. One night. We'll go out and pretend we're normal.”

— Katja Millay

“Josh Bennett laughs, and for one minute, everything is right in the world.”

— Katja Millay

“Somehow, I'm to blame for everything here, and I don't even know what I did.”

— Katja Millay

“And there are so many missing that the ones that are left don't fit together anymore.”

— Katja Millay

“there are no stories or secrets in the world worth holding onto more than his hand.”

— Katja Millay

“Every normal family is one tragedy away from complete implosion.”

— Katja Millay