“There's more to life than cause and effect.”
Amy Zhang“We fall asleep to fairy tales, and the world rotates and revolves and time passes and we grow up and we understand that they are false. There are not heroes and princesses and villains. It's not that easy.”
Amy Zhang“It wasn't the aloneness that Liz minded. It was the silence. It echoed.”
Amy Zhang“He embraced his weirdness, and it was nice.”
Amy Zhang“Liz Emerson held so much darkness within her that closing her eyes didn't make much a difference at all.”
Amy Zhang“But there was something terrifying taking over her thoughts, and it wouldn't leave. Out of seven billion sharing the planet with her, not one of them knew what was going through her head. Not one of them knew that she was lost. Not one of them asked.”
Amy Zhang, Falling into Place“In that moment, Liz Emerson felt that she was forever looking up at people who were much, much better than she could ever be, and the only thing she was really good at was pulling them down to her level.”
Amy Zhang, Falling into Place“She had been desperate to feel something, anything. She needed a window, because she had broken her heart throwing it at locked doors.”
Amy Zhang, Falling into Place“There's more to life than cause and effect.”
Amy Zhang, Falling into Place“You have to understand yourself before you can understand anything else.”
Amy Zhang, This Is Where the World Ends“If there's one person in the world you should be with, there must be one person in the world you shouldn't be with.”
Amy Zhang, This Is Where the World Ends