“ Kate's unhappiness was like weather, a storm rolling constantly toward or away from her, a force she could feel approaching like a hum of electrical current across her skin before it broke open, soaki… Aryn Kyle
“ At home, Tommy tried to avoid looking too long at himself in the mirror, for his reflection stirred in him a feeling of great loneliness and a fear that this loneliness might be permanent. Aryn Kyle
“ We would pay the bills. We would pretend to be high-class. This was compromise. This, I guessed, was business. Aryn Kyle
“ That was the real bitch about time: Everything true would become false, if only you waited long enough. Aryn Kyle
“ In my room, I looked around at all the pieces of my life, neat and tidy on their little shelves, my clothes and books and telephones, my shoes and hair barrettes, and tried to care about them. Mine, m… Aryn Kyle
“ And in that foggy place between sleep and waking, he could have been anyone. That was what she liked most about him: In the darkness, he became whomever she wanted. Aryn Kyle
“ It's like, when someone asks you how you are and even though you want to say that you feel like shit, that you're miserable, that you cry until you gag and spend most of your time imagining ways to ki… Aryn Kyle
“ You tell us about your other friends. You feel guilty speaking about them, but you are annoyed, frustrated. You don't always trust their motives. You feel pressured by their demands on you. You're wor… Aryn Kyle
“ Beginnings are so important. Just finding that right moment to introduce this character, this world, it’s everything. Aryn Kyle