Hannah Moskowitz

“My life is just something that happened to me.”

— Hannah Moskowitz

“Hellos are harder than good-byes”

— Hannah Moskowitz

“Sometimes I hate the things I am allowed to do.”

— Hannah Moskowitz

“You're broken, and you're fixed. And you're better.”

— Hannah Moskowitz

“There is no going back, so fuck you, universe.”

— Hannah Moskowitz

“Her eyes are huge and humid.”

— Hannah Moskowitz

“I wish we could get away from our fish.”

— Hannah Moskowitz

“I say, "Good job, buddy," and his face is like I've just fixed the whole world.”

— Hannah Moskowitz

“I just want to talk to her and I want her to talk to me, and I want her to light up…

— Hannah Moskowitz

“Will coos, “Jo.” I pretend he’s saying my name. I pretend he’s calling me back.”

— Hannah Moskowitz

“Once we’re back to safety, we float on our backs by the sandbar.”

— Hannah Moskowitz

“I think this is the part where we stop pretending we’re not going to see each other again.”

— Hannah Moskowitz

“If silence could break bones, I would shatter right now, into pieces of stomachache and blueprints and desperation.”

— Hannah Moskowitz

“And fuck it, because that was seriously fucking fantastic.”

— Hannah Moskowitz

“Make sure you're not expecting cute. This isn't Looking For Alaska.”

— Hannah Moskowitz

“It's not just like that. I can't just swim away." "Why not?" "I'm afraid I'll drown." He looks up and gives the…

— Hannah Moskowitz

“They scoot away from each other as soon as I open the door, like they’re afraid that their cuddling will bruise my…

— Hannah Moskowitz

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger," Jesse deadpans. "Exactly. Exactly." Self-improvement through adversity... it isn't bullshit. Exhibit A: my…

— Hannah Moskowitz

“Shit, boy. Look at me. Do they have me right now? Are you tying me up and hitting me and... whatever? Did…

— Hannah Moskowitz

“You're absolved," I tell him. He brings his eyes back up to mine. There's no fucking way he knows what that word…

— Hannah Moskowitz

“There has to be a way. I didn't die in that cave, and Dylan didn't die when he was two, and Teeth…

— Hannah Moskowitz

“Just wanted to let you know I got in all right. And also that my chest hurts as if I MAY BE…

— Hannah Moskowitz

“I'm happy for the kid and everything, but how the fuck does Lio get a friend before me? I live here. 'I…

— Hannah Moskowitz

“A few innocent people!" my father says. "A few people were shot for absolutely no reason except for where they happened to…

— Hannah Moskowitz

“I think once you start going to therapy three times a week, you've made some sort of terrible transition. I think that's…

— Hannah Moskowitz

“My last girlfriend at home was Gabrielle. We were together for only a month before I left. I pretty much knew by…

— Hannah Moskowitz

“I close my eyes and listen to the ocean. I'm thinking about sailing, to England or maybe France. The way the wind…

— Hannah Moskowitz

“Even though Graham and I went back to arguing and stealing socks and hiding each other's toothbrushes in the litter box, I…

— Hannah Moskowitz

“I hold my finger up to his lips. He flicks his eyes down to look at it. "You're absolved," I tell him.…

— Hannah Moskowitz

“It's been about six months since I've had something in a cast. Kids at school laugh and call me a klutz. This…

— Hannah Moskowitz

“He says, "But it is really whatever, you know? You've saved me way more times. And we call ourselves friends." It doesn't…

— Hannah Moskowitz

“Charlotte is a prism for my life. Without her, my existence looks pale and bleak and somewhere near the middle of the…

— Hannah Moskowitz

“Soon we're both frowning hard at the paperwork. "Middle name?" Noah says. "Does Gideon even have a middle name?" "I don't know"…

— Hannah Moskowitz

“So once the zookeeper realized it was the monkeys who stole the bananas, he knew there was only one way he'd be…

— Hannah Moskowitz

“If this were a fairy tale, this would be the part where the fishboy appears and Diana shoots him through the heart.…

— Hannah Moskowitz

“At the Hospital, everyone thinks about dying.And I'd never been much for romanticizing death-especially not suicide. I'd always been a fan of…

— Hannah Moskowitz

“Camus-boy, you're always going to be the same you, just older. It's not like there's a moment when you wake up and…

— Hannah Moskowitz

“Sixteen-year-old guys smell like deodorant and fast food. Then you turn seventeen and you get fresh.”

— Hannah Moskowitz

“I don't want to die, but I wish waking up every morning didn't feel like such a fuck-you every single time.”

— Hannah Moskowitz

“Without Melinda, you'd have no Camus." I exhale. "I know." I know it to my fucking bones.”

— Hannah Moskowitz