The Impossible Girl Quotes

“If you're going to cry, go to church and pray for the living. The dead don't need your tears.”
― Lydia Kang, The Impossible Girl

“Personally, she didn’t believe in heaven or hell. An earthly life was hell enough, and heaven appeared in the ephemera of every day,”
― Lydia Kang, The Impossible Girl

“Personally, she didn’t believe in heaven or hell. An earthly life was hell enough, and heaven appeared in the ephemera of every day, like dust motes sparkling in a quiet sunrise, or a warm handshake on a frigid day. Stolen gifts.”
― Lydia Kang, The Impossible Girl

“THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF HUMAN LIFE MALFORMATIONS AND MONSTROSITIES INTELLECTUAL AND MORAL CURIOSITIES! OUR DEITY AT WORK! ADMISSION PRICE ONLY 20¢”
― Lydia Kang, The Impossible Girl

“The impossible girl with two hearts.”
― Lydia Kang, The Impossible Girl

“what do you do?” Dr. Blackwell asked imperiously.”
― Lydia Kang, The Impossible Girl

“There is an end to everything, but some endings are very good, indeed.”
― Lydia Kang, The Impossible Girl

“What would he say? What would he do? The clarity of his mind was a very real thing, and hers had been clouded by sickness and sleep and too long spent in flight, never landing, never taking a breath to actually live.”
― Lydia Kang, The Impossible Girl

“An earthly life was hell enough, and heaven appeared in the ephemera of every day, like dust motes sparkling in a quiet sunrise, or a warm handshake on a frigid day. Stolen gifts.”
― Lydia Kang, The Impossible Girl

“Dr. Blackwell”
― Lydia Kang, The Impossible Girl

“There are lessons everywhere, Dr. Blackwell. Whether we choose to listen to them depends on our own good sense.”
― Lydia Kang, The Impossible Girl

“sky-blue.”
― Lydia Kang, The Impossible Girl

“It wasn’t the first time she’d been informed, directly or indirectly, that her womb consumed far too much energy to allow for mental acuity.”
― Lydia Kang, The Impossible Girl

“Being able to live and walk amongst the “bon ton” meant needing a steady supply of bodies, and things had been slow. Health was terribly inconvenient for Cora, but she would not do anything to hasten death. It was one of her rules.”
― Lydia Kang, The Impossible Girl

“All things are poison and nothing is without poison. Only the dose makes a thing not to be poison.”
― Lydia Kang, The Impossible Girl

“When you felt the explosive combustion of utter relief and anxiety at the same time,”
― Lydia Kang, The Impossible Girl

“Her identity was not so easily discerned. It was up to her to decide who she would be.”
― Lydia Kang, The Impossible Girl

“One always thinks one has forever, and that tomorrow will come to wipe away yesterday’s misfortunes and mistakes so one can start anew.”
― Lydia Kang, The Impossible Girl

“Trichoptysis.”
― Lydia Kang, The Impossible Girl