“I walked a block on rubbery knees, feeling the way I did the time a van clipped my bike and sent me reeling into a line of parked cars. Ella had dropped her cigarette and jumped on the fallen bike,… — Melissa Albert Copy Share Image
“We were each our own island, gathered together into one messed-up archipelago.” — Melissa Albert Copy Share Image
“Usually when I looked at people too long I started seeing them as component parts: Bony noses. Eyeballs in sockets. Odd cartilage curve of… — Melissa Albert Copy Share Image
“Lana left, and a guy named Norm came in to replace her. He spent the next three hours talking about a hangout he had with Lana that may or may not have been a date, not that he was worried about it, but what did I think and had Lana mentioned him? I gave him non-committal answers until I finally… — Melissa Albert Copy Share
“Some bitch? She was my girlfriend for eight months. It's so ugly when girls call each other that word." "Oh, my god, Finch, go… — Melissa Albert Copy Share Image
“You might think you have a really good reason, but nothing could be worth this. Nothing could be worth feeling this way. I feel like a changeling wearing someone else's skin. I can't remember what I liked, or what I wanted, why I worked or left the house or did anything. It's all gone... I think whatever I used to… — Melissa Albert Copy Share
“So my name, my full name, is Ellery Oliver Djan-Nelson-Abrams-Finch." "Does that fit on a Scantron?" "A what?" "Nevermind.” — Melissa Albert Copy Share Image
“Everyone is supposed to be a combination of nature and nurture, their true selves shaped by years of friends and fights and parents and… — Melissa Albert Copy Share Image
“I avoided my eyes while brushing my teeth, then climbed into bed with a copy of _The Blind Assassin_, because if you're not with… — Melissa Albert Copy Share Image
“Look until the leaves turn red, sew the worlds up with thread. If your journey's left undone, fear the rising of the sun.” — Melissa Albert Copy Share Image
“There are no lessons in it. There's just this harsh, horrible world touched with beautiful magic, where shity things happen. And they don't happen… — Melissa Albert Copy Share Image
“I hated Tennessee Williams's Laura. She reminded me too much of a fairy-tale character. Not the ones my grandmother wrote, allegedly-- those women drew… — Melissa Albert Copy Share Image
“ My love he wooed me My love he slew me My love he buried my bones His love he married His love I… — Melissa Albert Copy Share Image
