The Weight of Zero Quotes

“And someone who has never felt it can never understand what the absence of emotion feels like. It is a hopelessness of incomprehensible, unspeakable weight.”
― Karen Fortunati, The Weight of Zero

“And before you make that decision to confide, you need to evaluate the friend and the relationship. Have they proved themselves worthy of you?”
― Karen Fortunati, The Weight of Zero

“Years of best-friendness, sisterhood, reduced to a complete communication blackout.”
― Karen Fortunati, The Weight of Zero

“Nothing had happened to me. I was born with a defective mind. As my father’s sole contribution to my life knifed its way into my mother’s egg, it unleashed a faulty genetic code that warped the normal brain development of fetus me, growing wrong inside my mother. I was a thing that should never have been.”
― Karen Fortunati, The Weight of Zero

“The world turned upside down - in a good way - for one black velvet night.”
― Karen Fortunati, The Weight of Zero

“But no, there he is, voluntarily chatting away, asking me if I watch some zombie show. I don’t. (Those shows aren’t all that appealing when you relate more to the zombies than the humans.)”
― Karen Fortunati, The Weight of Zero