“Sometimes it feels like my entire relationship with Sawyer has been one long apology.” — Katie Cotugno Feels Copy Share Image
“This day has gone on for years, and I don't need one more dangerous thing.” — Katie Cotugno Dangerous Copy Share Image
“...I hate myself for letting him know that I still think about him, that I carry him around inside my skin.” — Katie Cotugno Hate Copy Share Image
“I'm so hugely tired of carrying all of this inside me, all my guilt and anger and loneliness.” — Katie Cotugno Anger Copy Share Image
“...it occurs to me that one day was never meant to hold so much.” — Katie Cotugno Meant Copy Share Image
“Wait, I almost shouted, but didn't, and that would be my burden to bear.” — Katie Cotugno Burden Copy Share Image
“Can you allow for the possibility that you're more special than you give yourself credit for?” — Katie Cotugno Copy Share Image
“Kissing him feels familiar but also new, a song they haven’t played on the radio in a really long time.” — Katie Cotugno Familiar Copy Share Image
“I just didn't know how to do this, ...the clang and chatter... . And more than that, I didn't particularly want to learn.” — Katie Cotugno Chatter Copy Share Image
“I like how the implication there is that the fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, but in me. Give me… — Katie Cotugno Implication Copy Share Image
“A future as lonely as the surface of the moon and still just the sight of him feels like a homecoming, like… — Katie Cotugno Contemporary fiction Copy Share Image
“I know it's only a matter of time before she gets to preschool and starts asking her teacher why today's snack is… — Katie Cotugno Matter of time Copy Share Image
“The hideous thing is this: I want to forgive him. Even after everything, I do. A baby before my 17th birthday and… — Katie Cotugno Feels Copy Share Image
“ "Hey, Sawyer?" "Yeah? What’s up?" " I love you, you know that?" "I-…I do know that, actually. But- Jesus, Reena.” He… — Katie Cotugno Love Copy Share Image
“I am remembering so clearly how he looked when he was eight, when he was eleven, when he was seventeen. Sawyer and… — Katie Cotugno Love Copy Share Image
“...as if there's some invisible string that kept us tethered the entire time he was away and that's tightening now...” — Katie Cotugno Tethered Copy Share Image
“There's no limit to the ways that we have managed to fail each other as best friends.” — Katie Cotugno Best friend Copy Share Image
“...the feeling of standing on the edge of a canyon and screaming, waiting for an echo that refused to come.” — Katie Cotugno Canyon Copy Share Image
“It occurs to me, not for the first time, that things change whether you're around to notice them or not.” — Katie Cotugno Change Copy Share Image
“I don't even think about it, it just comes right out like the mean thing to say is always on the tip… — Katie Cotugno Tongue Copy Share Image
“Don’t pee on Judge Judy’s leg and tell her it’s raining,” Lou said.” — Katie Cotugno Judge judy Copy Share Image
“It rained a couple of hours ago—it rains every single day, world without end—” — Katie Cotugno Every single day Copy Share Image
“Can I offer you a strong alcoholic beverage to help take the edge off being yourself?” — Katie Cotugno Alcoholic Copy Share Image
“(my whole life a holding pattern, some variation on wait and see)” — Katie Cotugno Life Copy Share Image
“I loved ... the honest soul he kept hidden safe under all his bravado, and I loved how I was still, every… — Katie Cotugno Every day Copy Share Image
“One thing about living in South Florida is that everywhere you go is violently air-conditioned,” — Katie Cotugno Florida Copy Share Image
“I couldn't shake the feeling of warm possibility that was unpacking its suitcase inside me.” — Katie Cotugno Copy Share Image
“...somehow this seems inevitable, the natural course of things. Maybe he's a homing pigeon. Maybe I'm his home.” — Katie Cotugno Inevitable Copy Share Image
“It feels like we’re circling something here, like maybe we both know where this is headed. Like maybe we sort of always… — Katie Cotugno Circling Copy Share Image
“All I could manage to do was watch him from across the room and wish there was a way to capture him,… — Katie Cotugno Capture Copy Share Image
“I think of how it felt to lose him, slow and painful and confusing, and how it felt to wonder if I'd… — Katie Cotugno Copy Share Image
“I never knew that looking could do that before, that it could feel so obscenely intimate.” — Katie Cotugno Looking Copy Share Image
“I wanted to know everything there was to know about him, wanted to hear every single one of his stories and learn… — Katie Cotugno Memories Copy Share Image
