Once We Were Quotes

“But the thing is, sharing hands doesn't mean sharing goals. Sharing eyes doesn't mean sharing visions. And sharing a heart doesn't mean sharing the things we love.”
― Kat Zhang, Once We Were

“Everybody’s got sad stories.” Devon’s voice was as ungiving as stone. “And everyone thinks they’re so very special and broken because of them.”
― Kat Zhang, Once We Were

“Sometimes we make mistakes, Eva. Sometimes we make mistakes and they’re so terrible the word mistake doesn’t seem big enough to encompass it. But it happens. And the only way to ever make up for it is by cleaning up the mess.”
― Kat Zhang, Once We Were

“Maybe I really had been meant to fade away.”
― Kat Zhang, Once We Were

“Guilt was acid in our veins. It corroded everything. Our heart. Our lungs. Our throat.”
― Kat Zhang, Once We Were

“Jaime Cortae. Thirteen. Brown hair. Brown eyes. Lover of peanut butter. Sometime angel, sometime mischief maker. Always Jaime.”
― Kat Zhang, Once We Were

“We all react to hell differently.”
― Kat Zhang, Once We Were

“Easy to not think about other people's suffering, when it was hidden away. Harder to stomach when it collapsed on your front porch.”
― Kat Zhang, Once We Were

“Before sight, before sound, before smell or speech or feeling - was Addie.”
― Kat Zhang, Once We Were

“Wars and revolutions,” said Vince, “are not won through being liked.”
― Kat Zhang, Once We Were

“sharing hands doesn’t mean sharing goals. Sharing eyes doesn’t mean sharing visions. And sharing a heart doesn’t mean sharing the things we love.”
― Kat Zhang, Once We Were

“I’d spent so long watching Addie live. What if watching hadn’t been enough? What if I was doomed to be behind forever, stuck in some childhood I’d never actually gotten the chance to live?”
― Kat Zhang, Once We Were