156 Quotes by Cath Crowley

Life is the big scheme; death is the little one at the end.

I didn’t know that Cal had a crush on George, but he must have. He wouldn’t give Sea-Monkeys to just any girl.

When wanting collides with getting, that’s the moment of truth. I want to collide.

It’s a different kind of missing. You’re trying to remember, and he’s trying to forget.

And then we’re at that moment when you both go and get what you want or you both go back. The moment when you say, Stuff being scared; what’s on the other side is better. That moment when you inch closer to each other little by little, till your skin starts and ends in the same place. Till your faces get so close your lips start and end in the same place, too. Till you taste milk shake and salt and sugar days and the world spins and the stars sound like harmonicas.

If you don’t want a generation of robots, fund the arts!

The memories are in the words. And from that the strange thought comes that my memories are trapped in all the copies of this poem, and so everyone who’s reading it, no matter what copy, has my memories without knowing it.

But I don’t believe that the future gives us signs. I think that we look back and read the past with the present in our eyes.

They can’t see me but I can see them. I don’t stand because I’ve been standing all morning. Plus, this is my small protest against Luke and Rose. I can’t serve you if I don’t exist. Get lost in that existential dilemma.