156 Quotes by Cath Crowley

Mum says when wanting collides with getting, that’s the moment of truth. I want to collide. I want to run right into Shadow and let the force spill our thoughts so we can pick each other up and pass each other back like piles of shiny stones.

Mum and I were both there at the moment that Cal died, and sometimes I worry that seeing that has altered something so fundamental about us. Sometimes I worry we lost some of our humanness that day, and It’s not coming back.

I come out of the bathroom and the first thing I see is Ed. Okay, it was a long shot, but I was half hoping he would cease to exist while we were gone.

These must be the most depressing words in the history of love. I tried really hard to love you.

You’re always saying people don’t like you but people can’t like something that’s not there.

I know a few things about ghosts. The only way to stop them getting inside you is to spend every second of the day thinking about something else. Fighting like that makes you tired, and it doesn’t matter how hard you fight anyway. They chip till they make a crack, and before you know it there’s a ghost squatter in your living room. It’s hard to get them out. Hard because they settle in. Hard because you like the company.

I wonder how she could forget about it, a thing like that. And I wonder how she can go on living if she doesn’t.

Death is something we shy away from, except in literature or television, when we tend to stare right at it.

Words can’t save people from cancer or bring people back from the dead. Novels can’t either. They don’t have a practical use, that’s what I meant. I loved that you read that poem to me that night, but the world remained unchanged.