Quotes from Laura Ruby

Hell is never what you think it's going to be" -Guardian

She clenched the blanket in her fist, and sighed, and breathed his name, and if she hasn't said it out load, he wouldn't have known what to call himself, because everything was her.

We can all look up and say,. okay, there's the South Star,. there's the Big Dogpile, there's the Little Dipshit. Twinkle, twinkle.

The therapist her parents brought her to see liked Tess to do a lot of drawings. . . . He said, "It's interesting that you drew yourself with this little golden crown on your head. What does the crown mean to you?" "That's not a crown," she'd told him. "That's a nimbus of outrage.

What a dumb accident a family was. Some people got lucky, some not so lucky, and some people got the booby prize.

I'd rather tell you about a new horse, a forest of glass, and a long good night.

If Petey were keeping one of her lists of the things she hated, she would have to add: the fact that there was no justice.

Frankie didn't know that the boys opened every letter, any letter, as if it were a dispatch from another world, a kinder one, a pleasant dream they'd once had when they were young. She didn't know they weren't young any more.

You're only hurting yourself. Besides, the citizens like blood, don't they? They smell it.

I'm not going to ask for your forgiveness, because you only ask for that if you think you're doing something wrong. I don't care what anyone says, this isn't wrong" -Loretta

Sean asked her if she was an Olympic weight lifter. "No," she said. "I am Polish.

Dalí painted melting clocks. I suppose if he'd asked around first, quizzed people if they wanted to see a picture of a melting clock, the answer might have been something obvious, like 'Clocks don't melt!' But, lucky for us, Salvador didn't care what anyone else thought. You use what moves you.

Once I'd confessed to my own mother that I thought God was a woman, because who but a woman would care so much about the oceans and the plants and the animals, who but a woman could build a whole world in seven days? " -Guardian

She pretended his eyes weren't scouring her up and down, steel wool scraping her skin raw. Her

They were better, even angry Honorata. Roza could have been any of them, every one of them. The story hadn't changed. Only the costumes. Only the players.

Everybody loves a villain.

Scarecrows weren't made to scare the crows, they were made to scare the corn

The rage melted like snow in the sun.

I'd be okay with that kind of trouble," Amber said, as a pair of flannel-clad farm boys headed toward them.

He says the scarecrows—" —weren't made to scare the crows, they were made to scare the corn.

They think they're the only ones who understand the real truth about the world, and that it's everyone else who's been tricked. . . . The biggest problem we have is that people like to fool themselves into thinking that they could never be fooled.

There will be boys who tell you you're beautiful, but only a few will see you" -Babcia

Miguel hated the corn, said the plants seemed . . . alive. When Finn reminded him that, duh, of course the corn was alive, all plants were alive, Miguel replied that the corn sounded alive alive. As if it wasn't just growing, it was ripping itself out of the ground and sneaking around on skinny white roots.

She had become unmoored from the present, loose and untethered, her mind rolling back into her memories, rolling forward into the future, anticipating, and then dropping again into this torturous, unbearable present.