“Micah lives like an apology. He blushes when he breathes because he's taking someone else's air.” — Amy Zhang Copy Share Image
“Micah Carter," I say, and he does look up, right at me, and his eyes are the same green-gray-brown that they always have been, and he still have eleven freckles (two on the left cheek, nine on the right), and… — Amy Zhang Copy Share Image
“Liz looked back and counted the bodies, all those lives she had ruined simply by existing. So she chose to stop existing.” — Amy Zhang Copy Share Image
“I'm sitting here and I can still feel distance between us, just folded and crumpled and tangled. Our soul has stretch marks.” — Amy Zhang Copy Share Image
“No one sees how her hands shake as she closes the magazine, lays it down gingerly as though afraid that her trembling will start… — Amy Zhang Copy Share Image
“The butterflies are going crazy, reacting a thousand times more violently than they ever will again. They're fluttering up and up, and now they're… — Amy Zhang Copy Share Image
“And tonight - tonight, that was what she wished for. She wished to be happy, and fell asleep with an extra sky watching over… — Amy Zhang Copy Share Image
“He is very much in love with Liz Emerson,and it seems that she will never know.” — Amy Zhang Copy Share Image
“More than anything, they feared that they wouldn't have each other someday. And without each other, there wouldn't be much of a point at… — Amy Zhang Copy Share Image
“Drowned out by the sound of his heart throwing itself against his ribcage.” — Amy Zhang Copy Share Image
“He found that there were still beautiful things in the world, and nothing could ever change that.” — Amy Zhang Copy Share Image
“Out of the seven billion people sharing the planet with her, not one of them knew what was going through her head. Not one… — Amy Zhang Copy Share Image
“Oh my god," I gasp through laughing. "Micah Carter, it is an honor to be alive with you.” — Amy Zhang Copy Share Image
