“We were each our own island, gathered together into one messed-up archipelago.” — Melissa Albert Copy Share Image
“Usually when I looked at people too long I started seeing them as component parts: Bony noses. Eyeballs in sockets. Odd cartilage… — Melissa Albert Too long Copy Share Image
“Lana left, and a guy named Norm came in to replace her. He spent the next three hours talking about a hangout… — Melissa Albert Copy Share Image
“Some bitch? She was my girlfriend for eight months. It's so ugly when girls call each other that word." "Oh, my god,… — Melissa Albert Art Copy Share Image
“You might think you have a really good reason, but nothing could be worth this. Nothing could be worth feeling this way.… — Melissa Albert Copy Share Image
“So my name, my full name, is Ellery Oliver Djan-Nelson-Abrams-Finch." "Does that fit on a Scantron?" "A what?" "Nevermind.” — Melissa Albert Copy Share Image
“Everyone is supposed to be a combination of nature and nurture, their true selves shaped by years of friends and fights and… — Melissa Albert Dreams Copy Share Image
“I avoided my eyes while brushing my teeth, then climbed into bed with a copy of _The Blind Assassin_, because if you're… — Melissa Albert Book Copy Share Image
“Look until the leaves turn red, sew the worlds up with thread. If your journey's left undone, fear the rising of the… — Melissa Albert Copy Share Image
“There are no lessons in it. There's just this harsh, horrible world touched with beautiful magic, where shity things happen. And they… — Melissa Albert Things happen Copy Share Image
“I hated Tennessee Williams's Laura. She reminded me too much of a fairy-tale character. Not the ones my grandmother wrote, allegedly-- those… — Melissa Albert Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“ My love he wooed me My love he slew me My love he buried my bones His love he married His… — Melissa Albert Love Copy Share Image
“I walked a block on rubbery knees, feeling the way I did the time a van clipped my bike and sent me… — Melissa Albert Acts of love Copy Share Image
