27 Quotes by Akemi Dawn Bowman

I feel like I'm the one made out of paper.

I live my life in the small space between "uncomfortable and "awkward.

But if I could fix myself and turn off the anxiety long enough to feel normal, I would have a long time ago.

When I look over my shoulder, I see Jamie watching me with the same adoring smile time he has from the first time I met him. Jamie is not a starfish. Not even close.

I'd rather have an ugly face than an ugly heart.

I feel like I have the world, and even though Prizm isn't in it, Hiroshi is. His family is. His art is. He's filling a void I never knew was there, with his stories and his family and his paintings and the kindness he never seems to run out of.

Stars shine their brightest in the dark. So take this opportunity, and supernova the shit out of it.

When you live with wolves, you learn to howl,' he says . . . 'the wolf is dangerous, and the howl is a kind of pain. If you spend too much time around people whose souls are hurting, eventually your soul starts to cry out too.

I don't know how to hang on to someone who doesn't exist in the same world as me.