Fans of the Impossible Life Quotes

“May we live impossibly,” Sebby said when he opened his eyes. “Against all odds. May people look at us and wonder how such jewels can sparkle in the sad desert of the world. May we live the impossible life.”
― Kate Scelsa, Fans of the Impossible Life: A Captivating Debut YA Novel About LGBTQ Teens, Mental Health, and Transformative Friendship

“I know you think that we saved you or something, Jeremy," he said. "That we were stronger than you. But we're not. We weren't. We're all just trying to survive however we can.”
― Kate Scelsa, Fans of the Impossible Life: A Captivating Debut YA Novel About LGBTQ Teens, Mental Health, and Transformative Friendship

“They rolled up the maps of their bodies until they were two continents of interlocking roads and rivers and dreams, and she thought, ‘This is how I will learn to live again’.”
― Kate Scelsa, Fans of the Impossible Life: A Captivating Debut YA Novel About LGBTQ Teens, Mental Health, and Transformative Friendship

“Love remembers the places where it touched down. You can follow it back to them.”
― Kate Scelsa, Fans of the Impossible Life: A Captivating Debut YA Novel About LGBTQ Teens, Mental Health, and Transformative Friendship

“In a really good thrift store you feel like you're in a room with all of these stories, and it's up to you to go and find the stories that you want to bring home with you. And then when you wear the clothes, they help you tell a new story, but they're bringing that old part with them and with you and you're benefiting from that in a way that you can't even really understand.”
― Kate Scelsa, Fans of the Impossible Life: A Captivating Debut YA Novel About LGBTQ Teens, Mental Health, and Transformative Friendship

“And I say, 'We are pilgrims too.'
And we say, 'But this time we won't lie. We will tell the truth about our explorations.”
― Kate Scelsa, Fans of the Impossible Life: A Captivating Debut YA Novel About LGBTQ Teens, Mental Health, and Transformative Friendship

“I picked up the blue tube again, unscrewed the cap, and squeezed a perfect line of paint onto the palate. As soon as I brushed it on the canvas, I was responsible for it, for the inevitable imperfections. My world had always been like that paint, left on a palate. That color was a passive observer. But not it wanted to make something of itself. And I was terrified.”
― Kate Scelsa, Fans of the Impossible Life: A Captivating Debut YA Novel About LGBTQ Teens, Mental Health, and Transformative Friendship

“Probably not great to call a nine-year-old a prostitute," Mira said.
"Fine. Filthy whore, then.”
― Kate Scelsa, Fans of the Impossible Life: A Captivating Debut YA Novel About LGBTQ Teens, Mental Health, and Transformative Friendship

“I know what you mean", she said. "Families can seem so normal and boring from the inside that you don't know you're different until someone else makes you feel different.”
― Kate Scelsa, Fans of the Impossible Life: A Captivating Debut YA Novel About LGBTQ Teens, Mental Health, and Transformative Friendship

“And I love that all their overdone liberal bullshit totally backfired," he said. "Of course it did. People are assholes. End of story."
"The world according to Sebastian Tate."
"It's a philosophy that has gotten me far in life.”
― Kate Scelsa, Fans of the Impossible Life: A Captivating Debut YA Novel About LGBTQ Teens, Mental Health, and Transformative Friendship

“Rose, this is Sebby," she said. "Sebby, Rose."
"Oh yeah. Sebastian, right?" Rose said. "I've hard about you."
"Only terrible things, I hope."
"The worst.”
― Kate Scelsa, Fans of the Impossible Life: A Captivating Debut YA Novel About LGBTQ Teens, Mental Health, and Transformative Friendship

“What if the insane are too raw to know which stations are real and which are just confused static?”
― Kate Scelsa, Fans of the Impossible Life: A Captivating Debut YA Novel About LGBTQ Teens, Mental Health, and Transformative Friendship

“He picked out a neon-green Sour Patch Kid and held it in front of her face. "Do you accept this little sugar man and his mission to bring you peace and fulfillment with the risk of a major sugar crash to follow?"
"I do," she said. "I accept the terms of the tiny sugar man, and the wrath of my impossible mother.”
― Kate Scelsa, Fans of the Impossible Life: A Captivating Debut YA Novel About LGBTQ Teens, Mental Health, and Transformative Friendship

“So when someone new came into this world of preordained power structures, someone who looked like they might understand a certain kind of emptiness, you might notice her.”
― Kate Scelsa, Fans of the Impossible Life: A Captivating Debut YA Novel About LGBTQ Teens, Mental Health, and Transformative Friendship

“You have been here before.

The highway winding north through dark New England forests. White dunes towering above the sides of the road, looking like the moon.

You can come back. Even after you hurt each other too deeply to comprehend. Even after the impossible becomes just that. Too far out of reach even to dream.

Love remembers the places where it touched down, left an invisible trail on your bodies. Follow it back. You can follow it back to them.”
― Kate Scelsa, Fans of the Impossible Life: A Captivating Debut YA Novel About LGBTQ Teens, Mental Health, and Transformative Friendship

“Bartender," she said to an invisible person, "a Jeremy special." She grabbed two plastic cups. "Coming right up," she replied to herself.
The Jeremy special ended up being an elaborate mix of fruit juices and vodka, and wasn't half bad.
"i think you have a successful bartending career ahead of you," I said as we made our way into the living room.
"Later I'll make you the Sebby special," she said. "It's used to remove paint from cars.”
― Kate Scelsa, Fans of the Impossible Life: A Captivating Debut YA Novel About LGBTQ Teens, Mental Health, and Transformative Friendship

“Wow," Mira said, looking around, "super fun."
"When do they bring out the pig's blood and dump it on the head of the awkward girl with telekinetic powers?" Sebby asked.
"Not until ten, I think."
"Well, what are we supposed to do until then? This was not well planned.”
― Kate Scelsa, Fans of the Impossible Life: A Captivating Debut YA Novel About LGBTQ Teens, Mental Health, and Transformative Friendship

“You have been here before.

The highway winding north through dark New England forests.

You can come back.

Love remembers the places where it touched down.

You can follow it back to them.”
― Kate Scelsa, Fans of the Impossible Life: A Captivating Debut YA Novel About LGBTQ Teens, Mental Health, and Transformative Friendship

“I can see the future. Oh look! I see us! There we are. We look great.”
― Kate Scelsa, Fans of the Impossible Life: A Captivating Debut YA Novel About LGBTQ Teens, Mental Health, and Transformative Friendship

“What are we going to do?" I said.

"I guess we're going to sit here and wait for this night to end. Every night has to end eventually.”
― Kate Scelsa, Fans of the Impossible Life: A Captivating Debut YA Novel About LGBTQ Teens, Mental Health, and Transformative Friendship

“Are you just hoping to see some boobs, Rose?" Sebby asked. "Is that what this is about?"
"Oh yeah," Rose said. "I've got a one-track mind and it's all about JV boobs.”
― Kate Scelsa, Fans of the Impossible Life: A Captivating Debut YA Novel About LGBTQ Teens, Mental Health, and Transformative Friendship

“She had decided that because she couldn't love her body, she would try to love what she put on it.”
― Kate Scelsa, Fans of the Impossible Life: A Captivating Debut YA Novel About LGBTQ Teens, Mental Health, and Transformative Friendship

“Surviving herself was a bittersweet victory. It meant that some part of her had lost.”
― Kate Scelsa, Fans of the Impossible Life: A Captivating Debut YA Novel About LGBTQ Teens, Mental Health, and Transformative Friendship

“Her room only really provided a safe space to fall apart. The falling apart was inevitable. With the door closed against the outside world she could stop pretending that she was any good at basic functioning. She and life didn't always seem to like each other much. But her room only really provided a safe space to fall apart. The falling apart was inevitable. With the door closed against the outside world she could stop pretending that she was any good at basic functioning.

She and life didn't always seem to like each other much. It was nice to be able to admit it.”
― Kate Scelsa, Fans of the Impossible Life: A Captivating Debut YA Novel About LGBTQ Teens, Mental Health, and Transformative Friendship

“I had a sudden urge of anger. I couldn't stand it anymore, being asked to accept that I had no control over who left me, over our lives. There had to be something that I could do.”
― Kate Scelsa, Fans of the Impossible Life: A Captivating Debut YA Novel About LGBTQ Teens, Mental Health, and Transformative Friendship

“Like many things with Julie, "family time" did not happen because it was something that you wanted to do. It happened because it was dictated by some outward force of propriety.”
― Kate Scelsa, Fans of the Impossible Life: A Captivating Debut YA Novel About LGBTQ Teens, Mental Health, and Transformative Friendship

“The past couple years had brought this newly womanly body along with them. Mira only wore skirts now as a rule, because pants made her feel stuck into someone else's idea of a shape. Ad her shape often felt like a fluid thing, this way one day and something else the next. She wished that she could pin it down, the watery and unmanageable way that she was growing. She wondered if other people felt solid in their skin.”
― Kate Scelsa, Fans of the Impossible Life: A Captivating Debut YA Novel About LGBTQ Teens, Mental Health, and Transformative Friendship

“Je verbonden voelen met andere mensen houdt bepaalde risico's in. Vooral als je je hele persoonlijkheid al had afgestemd op alleen-zijn. Niet dat het een opwindend bestaan was, maar in mijn eenzaamheid was ik van niemand afhankelijk.”
― Kate Scelsa, Fans of the Impossible Life: A Captivating Debut YA Novel About LGBTQ Teens, Mental Health, and Transformative Friendship

“Peter's kitchen was separated from the living room by a counter, with some uncomfortable-looking stools as if breakfast should only be eaten while perched on the edge of the day's possibilities.”
― Kate Scelsa, Fans of the Impossible Life: A Captivating Debut YA Novel About LGBTQ Teens, Mental Health, and Transformative Friendship

“Alone in her room was the safest place for Mira in moments like this, comforted by the womb of things crafted to protect her against the outside world. Protect against the inside one too, the places in her head that did not have her best interests in mind. She collected things like hoarded rations, her overflowing closet, her scarves and hats and jewelry, stocking her own emotional fallout shelter.”
― Kate Scelsa, Fans of the Impossible Life: A Captivating Debut YA Novel About LGBTQ Teens, Mental Health, and Transformative Friendship