One Quotes

“Here we are. And we are living. Isn't it amazing? How we manage to be at all.”
― Sarah Crossan, One

“Normal is the Holy Grail
and only those without it
know its value.”
― Sarah Crossan, One

“Plato claimed that we were all joined to someone else once, we were humans with four arms and four legs, and a head of two faces, but we were so powerful we threatened to topple the Gods. So they split us from our sole mates down the middle, and doomed us to live forever without our counterparts”
― Sarah Crossan, One

“I am alive and I am alone in a land of so much space.”
― Sarah Crossan, One

“But when I read, I am completely alone. I have privacy from her and from everyone.”
― Sarah Crossan, One

“What am I supposed to do?
I don't know
so I say the words I would want to hear.
'Go, if you have to.”
― Sarah Crossan, One

“Are you kidding?
You are normal.
And normal is good.
Normal is my goal,'
I tell him.”
― Sarah Crossan, One

“Around here normal is a slur,' he says, 'Deep down everyone wants to be a star and normal is the road to nothingness.”
― Sarah Crossan, One

“Death

What does death feel like?
Sleeping?
Being in a dark and silent dream?

Maybe that would be OK—
if nothingness
is all it is.

But I’m kidding myself.

It must be worse than that or people
wouldn’t so
furiously
avoid it.

Maybe death is white and
glaring.

Maybe it is a lack of sleep,

a pure awakening—

a deafening reality
that is truly
unbearable.

But no one will ever know
how it feels
until he arrives there.

All I know now is that it
looks like
a brass-handled coffin being
lowered
into the ground,

and
I’ve absolutely no interest
in getting into one
of those things.”
― Sarah Crossan, One

“Isn't it funny how something so abstract can speak to us?”
― Sarah Crossan, One

“The sky blushes, letting go of its darkness. The fringe of the horizon is pink. ‘Sunrise,”
― Sarah Crossan, One: WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL 2016

“friend”
― Sarah Crossan, One: WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL 2016

“Je peux imaginer des centaines de choses qui seraient pires que de vivre aupres de Tippi, de vivre dans ce corps, et d’etre celle que j'ai toujours ete.
Je pourrais imaginer mille choses bien pires
Un million.
Si quelqu'un me le demandait.”
― Sarah Crossan, One

“You know we could buy pie for a few dollars at the store and save ourselves hours."
Which isn't the point. I want to hear the clean slice of a sharp knife through the apple's flesh. I want to roll the pastry flat and lay it over the filling like a friendly blanket. I want to watch the clock and check the oven and feel anxious about the results.
"Can't you pretend to be pleased?" I ask.
"I can *pretend*" she says, which is a lie.”
― Sarah Crossan, One

“I think we should have discussed it," I say, not needing to remind her that this shoddy body never split like it should and that if she dies, so do I.

"Sorry" shes says. "So can I smoke?"
I turn my head, curl away from her as best I can. It isn't really a question: When Tippi wants something she takes it with both hands”
― Sarah Crossan, One

“As time ticks by the chances of us suddenly ceasing to be get quite high. That's just a fact that will never go away.”
― Sarah Crossan, One