“I’d trade my hand all over again to take back everything I did and hear him call me Sunshine.” — Katja Millay Hand Copy Share Image
“And if I want to leave here without regrets, I need to know there are no more unsaid words left to haunt… — Katja Millay Regret Copy Share Image
“His hands are miracles. I can watch them for hours, transforming wood into something it never dreamed of being.” — Katja Millay Hands Copy Share Image
“If there are two choices, I'm usually going to pick the wrong one, but I really don't do it to be an… — Katja Millay Asshole Copy Share Image
“I think you and I both know it’s Josh who needs saving. Have a good time tonight.” — Katja Millay Josh Copy Share Image
“Emilia," he says, and when he does, it warms me to my soul. "Every day you save me.” — Katja Millay Emilia Copy Share Image
“Maybe I can save her right now, in this moment, and if I can do that, maybe it will save me and… — Katja Millay Maybe Copy Share Image
“I don't know if I'm okay. It shouldn't be possible to be this close to another person. To let them crawl inside… — Katja Millay Crawl Copy Share Image
“And as much as I'm telling her to stay here, I still want her to choose to come with me. To say… — Katja Millay Sanity Copy Share Image
“What would you do if I kissed you right now?' 'I'd probably let you, just to see what all the fuss is… — Katja Millay Kissed Copy Share Image
“He turns back to the fountain so his eyes aren't on me anymore, but I think he's still watching. "I'd ask you,… — Katja Millay Time Copy Share Image
“I think I’ll stay in pieces. I can shift them, rearrange, depending on the day, depending on what I need to be.… — Katja Millay Adjusting Copy Share Image
“I wish I could have saved you," he says finally. And this is what it always comes back to. Salvation. Him saving… — Katja Millay Impossibilities Copy Share Image
“It's not that I wanted to be dead, I just felt like I should be. Which is why it's hard when everyone… — Katja Millay Grateful Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter if you do everything right, if you dress the right way and act the right way and follow all… — Katja Millay Evil Copy Share Image
“It's not the sound itself that bothers me; it's just the fact that it's loud. The loud sounds make it impossible to… — Katja Millay Loud Copy Share Image
“Not my fault that you’re distractingly pretty.” I have to take a minute to confirm to the pissed off part of my… — Katja Millay Word Stupid Copy Share Image
“I'd sit in a circle and a bunch of people who'd been through as much shit as I had would look at… — Katja Millay Didn Feel Copy Share Image
“I haven't gotten better. I'm not even close to okay. The only thing I've done is to decide to get better. But… — Katja Millay Bad thing Copy Share Image
“I don't know how to say it - after all this time, I'm not even sure that I can - but I… — Katja Millay Tell Copy Share Image
“I've forgotten almost everything about my mom so I try to make myself think about her more. Otherwise, I'm afraid one day… — Katja Millay Remember Copy Share Image
“Seeing Josh is my homecoming. I didn't tell him I was coming back. He doesn't say anything when he sees me, and… — Katja Millay Communication Copy Share Image
“I need to know that there even is such a thing as okay, or maybe not just okay, maybe even good, and… — Katja Millay Deserve Copy Share Image
“I need to know that there's a way for people like us to end up okay. I need to know that there… — Katja Millay Deserve Copy Share Image
“There are so many things that can break you if there's nothing to hold you together.” — Katja Millay Break Copy Share Image
“You can put a name on anything, call it whatever you want, doesn't make it real. Doesn't make it true.” — Katja Millay Name Copy Share Image
“I'd watch her, amazed at just how much a person could accomplish fueled by tea and regret.” — Katja Millay Regret Copy Share Image
“No matter how good he looks right now, Josh Bennett without work boots & the smell of sawdust is all sorts of wrong.” — Katja Millay Bennett Copy Share Image
“I love you, Sunshine, and I don't give a shit whether you want me to or not.” — Katja Millay Love Copy Share Image
“I like finding things no one else is looking for. Things that got lost or forgotten, shoved in a corner. Stuff I… — Katja Millay Finding Copy Share Image
“It's all my fault! Everything is my fault and no one knows it more than me. We're all in hell and I'm… — Katja Millay Fault Copy Share Image
“I’m going to walk over to you,” I say, taking one step at a time in her direction like I’m talking down… — Katja Millay Time Copy Share Image
“We're like mysteries to one another. Maybe if I can solve him and he can solve me, we can explain each other.… — Katja Millay Maybe Solve Copy Share Image
“I doubt taking in a sullen, bitter, teenage girl with more issues than National Geographic is at the center of the vision… — Katja Millay Bitter Copy Share Image
“My mom said that it just happens sometimes when you get older. You get halfway through with your life and you realize… — Katja Millay Disheartening Copy Share Image
“If Edna St. Vincent Millay was right and childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies, then my childhood ended when I was… — Katja Millay Child Copy Share Image
“I took my schedule, my map, and my abject horror and made my way to class, reading it again and again as… — Katja Millay School Copy Share Image
“Nothing else matters. If I had a penny right now I'd wish that were true; I want to believe it more than… — Katja Millay Right now Copy Share Image
“Good Morning, Sunshine!" Josh F**king Bennett. By now, I'm pretty sure that if I were to find his birth certificate that is… — Katja Millay Birth Copy Share Image
“Plus, once he did the requisite double-take and recognized me, he’d probably beat the crap out of any guy who looked at… — Katja Millay Brokenness Copy Share Image