Quotes from Heather Anastasiu, Glitch

I wanted color. I wanted to soar with happiness even if it meant dealing with the weight of fear and guilt, too. I wanted to live.

Beauty, happiness, they're things so big they can't capture them with their scientific words. It's like what they used to call magic.

History isn't all fact--it's just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it's been a slow revision. The more time passes, the easier it becomes to reinvent the past.

It means that two people start loving each other. I guess because it can feel really sudden and because it's powerful. Like gravity--an unstoppable force.

His lips ever so gently touched mine, and suddenly I felt everything stirring inside me grow wings, let loose, and fly.

Being with him made me want to make my own dreams, discover my own path. I was my best self when I was with him.

Don't you understand? I want to spend my life with you. I want you to be there when I go to bed at night and when I wake up in the morning.

He pulled me closer until his lips breathed me in, until we were sharing one breath.