She's a fashion model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a sudden freeway "accident" leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she is transformed from the beautiful center of attention to an invisible monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge... read more
“When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?”
“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
“No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.”
“Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated.”
“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known.”
No matter how careful you are, there’s going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn’t experience it all. There’s that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should’ve been paying attention.Highlighted by 118 Kindle customers
Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I’ve ever known.Highlighted by 109 Kindle customers
Another thing is no matter how much you think you love somebody, you’ll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.Highlighted by 104 Kindle customers
When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?Highlighted by 99 Kindle customers
The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.Highlighted by 92 Kindle customers
“When you understand,” Brandy says, “that what you’re telling is just a story. It isn’t happening anymore. When you realize the story you’re telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan,” Brandy says, “then we’ll figure out who you’re going to be.”Highlighted by 86 Kindle customers
I’m an invisible monster, and I’m incapable of loving anybody. You don’t know which is worse.Highlighted by 74 Kindle customers
It’s all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.Highlighted by 72 Kindle customers
Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a vacuum cleaner, a Barbie doll. Erasing a computer disk. Burning a book. Probably that goes for killing anybody in the world. We’re all such products.Highlighted by 62 Kindle customers
It’s a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren’t we all?Highlighted by 59 Kindle customers
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