Bones & All Quotes

“The truth is like the waiting jaws of a monster, a more menacing monster than I’ll ever be. It yawns beneath your feet, and you can’t escape it, and as soon as you drop, it chews you to pieces.”
― Camille DeAngelis, Bones & All

“Time goes faster the older you get. Makes sense, I guess. A day becomes a smaller and smaller fraction of your life.”
― Camille DeAngelis, Bones & All

“The truth wouldn’t set me free. I’d only end up like my father.”
― Camille DeAngelis, Bones & All

“I just wanted Lee's attention—if not forever, then at least for the seven and a half minutes it would take him to polish me off.”
― Camille DeAngelis, Bones & All

“Eventually I realized something. Whenever you tell yourself, This time it will be different, it’s as good as a promise that it’ll turn out the same as it always has.”
― Camille DeAngelis, Bones & All

“When I read a book I can be somebody else.”
― Camille DeAngelis, Bones & All

“That night I learned there are two kinds of hunger. The first I can satisfy with cheeseburgers and chocolate milk, but there’s a second part of me, biding it’s time. It can go on like that for months, maybe even years, but sooner or later I’ll give in to it. It's like there’s a great big hole inside me, and once it takes his shape he's the only thing that can fill it.”
― Camille DeAngelis, Bones & All

“You ain’t never gonna feel nothin’ other people ain’t been through a million times before.”
― Camille DeAngelis, Bones & All

“Be he alive or be he dead, I’ll grind his bones to make my bread.”
― Camille DeAngelis, Bones & All

“Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.”
― Camille DeAngelis, Bones & All

“sometimes it’s the worst things in life that have the most to teach us. You take what you can, and as for the ugly parts, well—you ‘leave it go and get on with the business of living,”
― Camille DeAngelis, Bones & All

“Someday I’ll wake up and find they’ve built a maze around me, and I will be relieved.”
― Camille DeAngelis, Bones & All

“You protected the people that you love. You don't think I'm a bad person? All I think is that I love you".”
― Camille DeAngelis, Bones & All

“I couldn’t sleep in an empty apartment. I couldn’t cry either, because she hadn’t left me anything to cry over. If she loved it, she took it with her.”
― Camille DeAngelis, Bones & All

“I need the books. They're all I've got.”
― Camille DeAngelis, Bones & All

“When I read a book I can be somebody else. For two or three hundred pages I can have the problems of a normal person even if that person is traveling through time or fighting with aliens.”
― Camille DeAngelis, Bones & All

“mothers are the bravest creatures, and mine is the bravest of all”
― Camille DeAngelis, Bones & All

“On May 30th, the day I turned sixteen, my mother came in singing. It was a Saturday, and we had planned a full day of fun. I hugged my pillow and asked, "Why do you always sing it like that?”
― Camille DeAngelis, Bones & All

“Stuart gave me a funny look and didn't answer. I was very aware that we had been having a conversation, and now we were not, and I could have kicked myself.”
― Camille DeAngelis, Bones & All

“Sometimes it's the worst things in life that have the most to teach us. You take what you can, and as for the ugly parts, well you 'leave it go and get on with the business of living,”
― Camille DeAngelis, Bones & All

“I just wanted Lee's attention if not forever, then at least for the seven and a half minutes it would take for him to polish me off.”
― Camille DeAngelis, Bones & All

“you can accept it even if nobody else can.”
― Camille DeAngelis, Bones & All

“On the floor was the book about the pistol-wielding cat he’d been reading for his Russian lit class, bookmarked midway through with a receipt for a sixteen-ounce Pepsi and a chicken sandwich. He’ll never know how it ends.”
― Camille DeAngelis, Bones & All