Stephanie Kuehn Quotes

“I am both ever evolving and ever decaying.”

— Stephanie Kuehn

“From what I can tell, morality is a word. Nothing more. There're the things people do when others are watching and the things we do when they aren't.”

— Stephanie Kuehn

“She must have seen more of my charm than my strangeness tonight.”

— Stephanie Kuehn

“Because blood is blood, and every family has its own force.
Its own flavor.
Its own charm and strange.”

— Stephanie Kuehn

“You have a history of starving yourself," he says gently.
I lift my head. I meet his gaze. "I have a history that I don't like to talk about.”

— Stephanie Kuehn

“She loves us all."
"Then why doesn't she act like it?"
"Because love doesn't always look nice.”

— Stephanie Kuehn

“No we talked about matter- most notably quarks, those tiniest possible components of everything.They come in six flavors, you know: up, down, top, bottom, charm and strange. I'll admit those talks helped me, and when i read about the sea quarks, I understood why. They contained particles of matter and antimatter, and where the two touch exists this constant stream of creation and annihilation. Scientist call this place "the sea," and it's what pitches inside of me as I hurry away from Mr. Byles, ignoring his furrowed brow, his worried frown.
I am of the sea.
I am of instability.
I am of harsh, choppy waves roiling with all the up-ness, down-ness, top-ness, bottom-ness contained within my being.
I am of charm and strange.
Annihilation.
Creation.
Annihilation.”

— Stephanie Kuehn

“And yes, I say, I do like girls. I don't pursue them, though, and there are a lot of reasons for that. It's gotten me in trouble before, but I also think I have ridiculously high standards because the whole dating, fooling around thing seems so complicated. And not in a good way. I hate obligations, and if you want to be with a girl, it's like you're expected to do certain things. And do them a certain way.”

— Stephanie Kuehn

“They had it all wrong, of course. Bravery wasn't required to conquer fear. Indifference was.”

— Stephanie Kuehn

“There are some dreams you can't wake up from.
Ever.
These are called nightmares.”

— Stephanie Kuehn

“There are some dreams you do wake up from, only to find you can't remember them at all. But that doesn't mean these dreams don't matter ...
These are dream that hold our most private of truths.
These are the dreams that destinies are made of.”

— Stephanie Kuehn

“Choosing to live can mean so much more than not dying.”

— Stephanie Kuehn

“I'm trying to reach the stars.”

— Stephanie Kuehn

Somewhere. somehow, in the near future, Miles knew, some of them would be winners, some losers, and others, like himself, would be asked to fall on their swords.

— Stephanie Kuehn

“You're like my sun in winter.”

— Stephanie Kuehn

“You wanted to live," he says.
"You say that like it's a good thing. A virtue."
"What is it really?"
I think about this. "Selfish."
"Wanting to live is selfish?"
"Yes.”

— Stephanie Kuehn

“This school devours privacy, and rumors are like drops of blood in an ocean full of predators.”

— Stephanie Kuehn