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21 " His hands are miracles. I can watch them for hours, transforming wood into something it never dreamed of being. "
― Katja Millay , The Sea of Tranquility
22 " I'm tired of being responsible for other people's misery. I can't even put up with my own. "
23 " Do real boys actually call girls baby? I don't have enough experience to know. I do know that if a guy ever called me baby, I'd probably laugh in his face. Or choke him. "
24 " What did you call her?" she asks but I don't think it's her real question."Sunshine," I say, and she smiles like she believes it's perfect and she may be the only person other than me who would think so."What is she to you?" she whispers. The real question and I know the answer even if I don't know how to say it.Drew's muffled voice rises up from the floor before I can respond."Family," he says.And he's right. "
― Katja Millay
25 " I doubt taking in a sullen, bitter, teenage girl with more issues than National Geographic is at the center of the vision board for a single woman in her early thirties. "
26 " I am still able to lift my feet to walk. "
27 " Life is short and TBR lists are long. "
28 " Daylight won’t protect you from anything. Bad things happen all the time; they don’t wait until after dinner "
29 " Te dicen que fue algo fortuito para que no te culpes. Pero lo único que oigo es a ellos diciéndome que no tengo control, y si no tengo control, entonces estoy indefensa. "
30 " I decline the coffee. I don't drink it, because no matter how much sugar I put into it, it still tastes like ass-water to me. Maybe it's because my taste buds are so desensitized to sweet that anything not comprised of at least ninety percent sugar tastes wrong "
31 " I really shouldn't be judging him on normalcy, especially when I'm watching him from the confines of my own, very precarious glass house. "
32 " I wonder if there is a person on Earth who is consoled by a casserole. "
33 " She's grateful for what she was born with. She should be. It's an awesome face, a perfect face, an ethereal face. The kind people write songs and poems and suicide notes about. It's that exotic kind of beauty that men in romance novels obsess over, even if they have no idea who you are, because they must possess you. That kind of beauty. "
34 " There are so many things that can break you if there's nothing to hold you together. "
35 " I wished my mother was here tonight, which is stupid, because it’s an impossible wish.” He shrugs and turns to me, drowning the smile that cracks me every time. “It’s not stupid to want to see her again.” “It wasn’t so much that I wanted to see her again,” he says, looking at me with the depth of more than seventeen years in his eyes. “I wanted her to see you. "
36 " I am pressed so hard against the earth by the weight of reality that some days I wonder how I am still able to lift my feet to walk. "
37 " I know at that moment what he's given me and it isn't a chair. It's an invitation, a welcome, the knowledge that I am accepted here. He hasn't given me a place to sit. He's given me a place to belong. "
38 " I live in a world without magic or miracles. A place where there are no clairvoyants or shapeshifters, no angels or superhuman boys to save you. A place where people die and music disintegrates and things suck. "
39 " Maybe one day you'll come back. Maybe you never will and that'll suck, but you can't keep doing this. The blame and the self-loathing and the bullshit. I can't watch that. It makes me hate you for hating yourself. I don't want to lose you. But I'd rather lose you if it means you'll be happy. I think if you come back with me today, you'll never be okay. And I'll never be okay if you aren't. I need to know that there's a way for people like us to end up okay. I need to know that there even is such a thing as okay, maybe even good, and it's out there and we just haven't found it yet. There's got to be a happier ending than this, here. There's got to be a better story. Because we deserve one. You deserve one. Even if it doesn't end with you coming back to me. "
40 " We're like mysteries to one another. Maybe if I can solve him and he can solve me, we can explain each other. Maybe that's what I need. Someone to explain me. "