Quotes from Susan Vaught

Avoiding life, avoiding making any concrete plans for your life-that's just one way you're pretending you can keep bad things from happening to you again.

Her lips taste like mint from toothpaste or gum, or sometimes like cherries or grapes from her lip gloss. She's soft when I hold her, with curves where my hands rest, and when I touch her I think stupid caveman things like, mine and totally mine —oh yeah, and all mine .

Avoiding life, avoiding making any concrete plans for your life--that's just one way you're pretending you can keep bad things from happening to you again.

Some people are so strong, they don't need to change [...] They change everyone around them.

Some things can be fixed. Some things are just too broken.

I'm lost in space and I want to find a way home. Nobody else can get me back to the planet, so I have to do it myself.

Even when you know something bad will happen, you still might not see it coming.

Five seconds, and my body's humming. I go half-man, half-machine, and my thoughts go straight to touching her more, to how far I want to go, how far she might want to go, and damn, I start to hurt. No amount of music or hard work will fix this. My body's a beast. A beast that's been held back too long.

Sometimes stories get on my nerves--especially the ones where unfair things keep happening to the hero over and over, for no reason at all, and he valiantly overcomes it all. Life isn't like that. Not every hero can stay valiant. Sometimes, they can't even stay a hero, so what does that make them? A failure? A pussy? A total failure jerkwad with no hope on the horizon save finding a cemetery and digging rectangles in the ground for the town drunk?

Soft, pretty things don't belong in a dead zone.

Is it how it feels to do the right things? Because it sucks!

Know, know, know your boat gently down the stream. What boat? Nobody's talking about boats.

Wasn't it heroic enough, just staying alive when life got this hard?