64 Quotes by Nova Ren Suma

She’d gone quiet now. She wasn’t telling. She was learning to keep her one true secret, and she’d learned that from me.

Sometimes a perfect memory can be ruined if put to words.

What were we trying to do, kill ourselves and everyone around us? But we were children then, and we were just figuring out how to live. The car finished its U-Turn and headed back for the road. I laughed. I believed in writing down my future, but I didn’t know to keep an eye on hers.

My Heart and Other Black Holes is alive with intensity, gut-wrenching honesty, moments of humor, and – of course – heart. This is an extraordinary debut by a striking new voice in YA fiction that left me in awe and moved beyond measure. Not to be missed.

We went wild that hot night. We howled, we raged, we screamed. We were girls – some of us fourteen and fifteen; some sixteen, seventeen – but when the locks came undone, the doors of our cells gaping open and no one to shove us back in, we made the noise of savage animals, of men.

Something I would always remember. When you forget how bad it hurts, you feel so free.

She was one of us, but she was more. She was better.

There’s something ugly about a pretty boy who knows he’s pretty and assumes everyone else know it too.

It wasn’t locked at all, was it? All I had to do was push.