Katja Millay

“Nothing is perfect. It's not even good yet. But maybe.”

— Katja Millay

“My mother's hope is a weapon.”

— Katja Millay

“Dying isn't so bad after you've done it once. . . ”

— Katja Millay

“Maybe I just wanted the girl to look at me again. (Josh)”

— Katja Millay

“I can always think about cake.”

— Katja Millay

“Just because I don't talk about it, doesn't mean I forget.”

— Katja Millay

“Everything feels endless right now.”

— Katja Millay

“Seriously, Josh. What the hell?”

— Katja Millay

“I think I'm the one who's disappointed. I know that she's just a little bit less mine than she was a few…

— Katja Millay

“I've scared, offended or made everyone uncomfortable enough to stay away. Mission accomplished.”

— Katja Millay

“Now I'm standing in black stiletto heels in the middle of a Norman Rockwell painting.”

— Katja Millay

“I shrug. I'm an excellent shrugger. It's rivaled only by my ability to nod.”

— Katja Millay

“The running helps. It gives me something, or maybe more accurately, it takes something away.”

— Katja Millay

“But you can only go so long being angry before you learn to hate.”

— Katja Millay

“I'm tired of being responsible for other people's misery. I can't even put up with my own.”

— Katja Millay

“The world should be full of Josh Bennetts. But it’s not. I had the only one. And I threw him away.”

— Katja Millay

“It’s a chair. Stop overanalyzing it. I’m not selling it and I’m not giving it to someone else. I made it for…

— Katja Millay

“I've done goodbyes before, and I can do this one, too. Somehow this one hurts worse than the others; because this one…

— Katja Millay

“When you look at her what do you feel?... Joy, fear, frustration, longing, friendship, anger, need, despair, love, lust?" "Yes." "Yes, what?"…

— Katja Millay

“Congratulations, then. You wanted to be ruined? Well, you did yourself one better because you wrecked me, too, Sunshine. Now we’re both…

— Katja Millay

“It's a little bit devastating being surrounded by people who can do what you can't anymore. People who create. People whose souls…

— Katja Millay

“On every side of me are the lights and the tools and the wood and the boots and the boy I want…

— Katja Millay

“Just so you know,” he mimics me, “I would chop that table up and use it for firewood before I would ever…

— Katja Millay

“There really isn't a way to explain how a person you've seen every day of your life just isn't anymore. Someone just…

— Katja Millay

“Her smile fades. "I cant use any of it." "You can use some of it," I say, because I want the smile…

— Katja Millay

“With any other girl I could probably pull out the classic guy fail-safe of walking over and wrapping my arms around her…

— Katja Millay

“Just so you know,” I inform him, “one day, I’m going to get tired of sharing your affection with that coffee table…

— Katja Millay

“Thats the irony of Josh and me, and it shames me every time I think about it. He has no family. No…

— Katja Millay

“I decline the coffee. I don't drink it, because no matter how much sugar I put into it, it still tastes like…

— Katja Millay

“She's grateful for what she was born with. She should be. It's an awesome face, a perfect face, an ethereal face. The…

— Katja Millay

“What’d you wish?” “I can’t tell you that!” I say indignantly. “Why not?” “Because it won’t come true.” Do I really need…

— Katja Millay

“I live in a world without magic or miracles. A place where there are no clairvoyants or shape shifters, no angels or…

— Katja Millay

“You know I meant it. I am human. And male. And not remotely blind. Do you want me to say it again?…

— Katja Millay

“I like names. I collect them: names, origins, meanings. They're an easy thing to collect. They don't cost anything and they don't…

— Katja Millay

“What did you see when you died?" He has that tenative half smile, like he's almost embarrassed by what he's saying. "Because…

— Katja Millay

“People like to say love is unconditional, but it's not, and even if it was unconditional, it's still never free. They always…

— Katja Millay

“I feel like I’m waiting here. Waiting for something that hasn’t happened yet. Something that isn’t yet. But that’s all I feel…

— Katja Millay

“You sure you won't come?' she asks. She always asks when she's going out with Drew. But I won't subject myself to…

— Katja Millay

“You didn’t get a choice in what happened to you. Neither did we. But you have a choice in what happens now.…

— Katja Millay

“I wished that my hand would work again," I tell him when he climbs in after me. it was my first wish…

— Katja Millay