Tabitha Suzuma Quotes

It's always nice being wanted. Even if it's by the wrong person.

I don't know when it started - this thing - bit it's growing, muffling me, suffocating me like poison ivy. I grew into it. It grew into me. We blurred at the edges, became an amorphous, seeping, crawling thing.

Otherwise I'll fall apart. I'm going to fall apart. I am falling apart.

He shakes his head with a slow smile. You'd better be right. If the phone rings, I'm unpluggining it, I swear to God-“ You'd do that to your five-year-old sister?“ I gasp in mock outrage. For one whole night alone? Jesus, Maya, I'd sell her to the gypsies!

Before there was anything, there was Lochan.

Even though I'm surrounded by pupils, there is the invisible screen screen between us, and behind the glass wall I am screaming - screaming in my own silence, screaming to be noticed, to be befriended, to be liked.

Lochie. The boy I once loved. The boy I still love. The boy I will continue to love, even when my part in this world is over too.

If I move, if I speak, if I so much as blink, I'm going to lose this battle.

Family: the most important thing of all. My siblings may drive me crazy at times but they are my blood. They’re all I’ve known. My family is me. They are my life. Without them I walk the planet alone. Forbidden, Tabitha Suzuma

The sight of such aching beauty would infuse his soul with pain.

I am overcome by a feeling of complete detachment. I am a mere object to these people. I am barely human any more.

...and my loneliness, always my loneliness - that airless bubble of despair that is slowing stifling me.