Kat Zhang

“Everybody’s got sad stories.” Devon’s voice was as ungiving as stone. “And everyone thinks they’re so very special and broken because of…

— Kat Zhang

“I was caged in our body and caged in his arms and, somehow, the former was the real prison.”

— Kat Zhang

“Before sight, before sound, before smell or speech or feeling - was Addie.”

— Kat Zhang

“Easy to not think about other people's suffering, when it was hidden away. Harder to stomach when it collapsed on your front…

— Kat Zhang

“Jaime Cortae. Thirteen. Brown hair. Brown eyes. Lover of peanut butter. Sometime angel, sometime mischief maker. Always Jaime.”

— Kat Zhang

“But the thing is, sharing hands doesn't mean sharing goals. Sharing eyes doesn't mean sharing visions. And sharing a heart doesn't mean…

— Kat Zhang

“I was terrified. I was eleven years old, and though I'd been told my entire life that it was entirely natural for…

— Kat Zhang

“But understanding a thing and accepting it are so very different things.”

— Kat Zhang

“Maybe I really had been meant to fade away.”

— Kat Zhang

“Sometimes we make mistakes, Eva. Sometimes we make mistakes and they’re so terrible the word mistake doesn’t seem big enough to encompass…

— Kat Zhang

“There's only so long you can be at the zoo before it gets old.”

— Kat Zhang

“For years, we'd been the thorn of the neighborhood, the dirty little secret that wasn't so secret. The girls who just wouldn't…

— Kat Zhang

“I focused as hard as I could on our fingers. On curling them. On bending our elbows to prop up our body.”

— Kat Zhang

“Guilt was acid in our veins. It corroded everything. Our heart. Our lungs. Our throat.”

— Kat Zhang

“Addie was warm and radiant next to me, making up half of us. But I - I was Eva, Eva, Eva, all…

— Kat Zhang

“The silence was like an unwelcome child, pulling at our hair, running its fingers over our lips.”

— Kat Zhang

“(Addie) I said. (If it had been you - if it were you trapped inside. If you were the one who couldn't…

— Kat Zhang

“If you're there, Eva...if you're really there..." His fingers tightened around our shoulder, digging into our skin. "I love you, too. Always"…

— Kat Zhang

“One second. A snapshot of fear and sweat and blood.”

— Kat Zhang