“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 Stretch marks 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… — Amy Zhang Nature 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… — Amy Zhang Life Copy Share Image
“And tonight - tonight, that was what she wished for. She wished to be happy, and fell asleep with an extra sky… — Amy Zhang Copy Share Image
“He is very much in love with Liz Emerson,and it seems that she will never know.” — Amy Zhang Love 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… — Amy Zhang Fear 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.… — 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 Oh my god Copy Share Image
“Micah lives like an apology. He blushes when he breathes because he's taking someone else's air.” — Amy Zhang Copy Share Image
“He loved the sun too much. He loved fire, like me. He saw the light and he loved it more than anyone.… — Amy Zhang Sun 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… — Amy Zhang Impulse control Copy Share Image
“She would die, and maybe everyone would forget that she had ever lived.” — Amy Zhang Death Copy Share Image
“It was the colors that had initially attracted her, the vibrant blue of the Bunsen flame and the dusty red of copper… — Amy Zhang Beauty Copy Share Image
“It was quiet, deeply so, but it was the kind of quiet that lived and moved and changed, filled to the brim… — Amy Zhang Late summer Copy Share Image
“She's goddamn insane, man. But I love her, Dewey. God, I don't know how to stop loving her.” — Amy Zhang Copy Share Image
“His soul is the color of a humid day, when there's just the thinnest layer of clouds hiding the sky. You know… — Amy Zhang Spirituality Copy Share Image
“She wanted to know how Galileo and Newton and Einstein discovered the things they discovered. She wanted to know how they could… — Amy Zhang Copy Share Image
“One day, she will grow up and imagine death as an angel that will lend her wings, so that she can find… — Amy Zhang Angel Copy Share Image
“I watched her cry. There had been silent tears and ones that barely leaked out. There were tears that heaved from her… — Amy Zhang Ask for help Copy Share Image
