“I shrug. I'm an excellent shrugger. It's rivaled only by my ability to nod.” — Katja Millay Humour Copy Share Image
“Now I'm standing in black stiletto heels in the middle of a Norman Rockwell painting.” — Katja Millay Fashion Copy Share Image
“The running helps. It gives me something, or maybe more accurately, it takes something away.” — Katja Millay Copy Share Image
“The world should be full of Josh Bennetts. But it’s not. I had the only one. And I threw him away.” — Katja Millay Copy Share Image
“I'm tired of being responsible for other people's misery. I can't even put up with my own.” — Katja Millay Misery Copy Share Image
“But you can only go so long being angry before you learn to hate.” — Katja Millay Anger Copy Share Image
“Every normal family is one tragedy away from complete implosion.” — Katja Millay Family Copy Share Image
“there are no stories or secrets in the world worth holding onto more than his hand.” — Katja Millay 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 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 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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Her smile fades. "I cant use any of it." "You can use some of it," I say, because I want the smile… — Katja Millay Smile Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Love Copy Share Image
“Thats the irony of Josh and me, and it shames me every time I think about it. He has no family. No… — Katja Millay Family Copy Share Image
“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 Coffee Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Shooting stars Copy Share Image
“I live in a world without magic or miracles. A place where there are no clairvoyants or shape shifters, no angels or… — Katja Millay Miracles Copy Share Image
“And there are so many missing that the ones that are left don't fit together anymore.” — Katja Millay Copy Share Image
“Somehow, I'm to blame for everything here, and I don't even know what I did.” — Katja Millay Copy Share Image
“Josh Bennett laughs, and for one minute, everything is right in the world.” — Katja Millay Copy Share Image
“So let's pretend. One night. We'll go out and pretend we're normal.” — Katja Millay Copy Share Image
“Girls always want to change the rules in the middle of the game.” — Katja Millay Game Copy Share Image
“...my closet and I are on my own. My closet is of no use to me. It may actually be laughing at… — Katja Millay Copy Share Image
“And if my Sea od Tranquility were real, it would be this place, here, with him".” — Katja Millay Copy Share Image
“I didn't belong in this world anymore. It's not that I wanted to be dead, I just felt like I should be.” — Katja Millay Copy Share Image
“Right now I think you're acting like me and I don't like you very much.” — Katja Millay Copy Share Image
“My jealousy is a living thing. Shifting, changing, growing. Like my rage and my mother's regret.” — Katja Millay Anger Copy Share Image
“People who go around advertising their birthdays are douchebags. It's a fact. You can look it up on Wikipedia.” — Katja Millay Birthday Copy Share Image
“I would like to believe in the dream of second chances. For both of us.” — Katja Millay Copy Share Image
“I love you, Sunshine,” I tell her, before I lose my nerve. “And I don’t give a shit whether you want me… — Katja Millay Hope Copy Share Image
“The pain is constant, steady, never-ending. It's the only thing I know. I don't want to be awake anymore.” — Katja Millay Pain Copy Share Image
“...but she's my tangent girl and I'll follow her if this is where she wants to go.” — Katja Millay Copy Share Image
“When I look at her now, I think, for just one second, that God doesn't hate me so much after all.” — Katja Millay God Copy Share Image
