“Everyone is supposed to be a combination of nature and nurture, their true selves shaped by years of friends and fights and parents and dreams and things you did too young and things you overheard that you shouldn’t have and… — Melissa Albert Copy Share Image
“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… — Melissa Albert Copy Share Image
“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… — Melissa Albert Copy Share Image
“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
