Top 80 Katja Millay Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Just because I don’t talk about it, doesn’t mean I forget.”

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2. “Good morning, Sunshine.”

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3. “Dying really isn’t so bad after you’ve done it once. And I have. I’m not afraid of death anymore. I’m afraid of everything else.”

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4. “I’m tired of being responsible for other people’s misery. I can’t even put up with my own.”

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5. “I don’t really care what people say about me. I’m fine with lies and rumors. It’s the truth I don’t want being told.”

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6. “You can’t change the rules and think everyone else is just going to keep playing.”

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7. “There are so many things that can break you if there’s nothing to hold you together.”

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8. “My mother’s hope is a weapon.”

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9. “Do real boys actually call girls baby? I don’t have enough experience to know. I do know that if a guy ever called me baby, I’d probably laugh in his face. Or choke him.”

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10. “Call me Sunshine again, and I will murder you, cocksucker.”

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11. “Seeing Josh is my homecoming. I didn’t tell him I was coming back. He doesn’t say anything when he sees me, and neither do I, because the fact that I’m here is an answer. We just look at each other and speak in the silence like we always have and no one interrupts the conversation.”

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12. “Nothing is perfect. It’s not even good yet. But maybe.”

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13. “Because it’s good when you find one that does mean something. Makes all the empty ones worthwhile.”

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14. “Maybe nobody knows how. Sometimes it’s easier to pretend nothing is wrong than to face the fact that everything is wrong, but you’re powerless to do anything about it.”

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15. “I live in a world without magic or miracles. A place where there are no clairvoyants or shapeshifters, no angels or superhuman boys to save you. A place where people die and music disintegrates and things suck.”

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16. “What? Sunshine fits you. It’s bright and warm and happy. Just. Like. You.”

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17. “His hands are miracles. I can watch them for hours, transforming wood into something it never dreamed of being.”

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18. “Daylight won’t protect you from anything. Bad things happen all the time; they don’t wait until after dinner.”

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19. “I don’t know if I’m okay. It shouldn’t be possible to be this close to another person. To let them crawl inside you.”

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20. “Wonderful. Last night’s dinner, the charred remains of my dignity, and apparently, now, my undergarments, too. What else did I leave on Josh Bennett’s bathroom floor?”

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21. “You get halfway through with your life and you realize you haven’t done the things you wanted to do or become what you’d thought you’d become and it’s disheartening.”

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22. “There’s a reverence in the way he kisses me that frightens me, because it’s the most wonderful thing I’ve ever felt.”

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23. “I doubt taking in a sullen, bitter, teenage girl with more issues than National Geographic is at the center of the vision board for a single woman in her early thirties.”

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24. “I’m not sure how long we sit in Josh’s truck, holding hands, surrounded by darkness and unspoken regrets. But it’s long enough to know that there are no stories or secrets in the world worth holding onto more than his hand.”

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25. “He’s kissing me. And when he does, part of me is lost. But it’s the part that’s twisted and mangled and wrong, and for just that moment, with his hands in my hair and his lips on my mouth, I can pretend that it never existed.”

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26. “My jealousy is a living thing. Shifting, changing, growing. Like my rage and my mother’s regret.”

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27. “I’d trade my hand all over again to take back everything I did and hear him call me Sunshine.”

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28. “I’d watch her, amazed at just how much a person could accomplish fueled by tea and regret.”

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29. “People who go around advertising their birthdays are douchebags. It’s a fact. You can look it up on Wikipedia.”

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30. “I know at that moment what he’s given me and it isn’t a chair. It’s an invitation, a welcome, the knowledge that I am accepted here. He hasn’t given me a place to sit. He’s given me a place to belong.”

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31. “I may not be allowed to love her, but that doesn’t mean I’ll let anyone hurt her.”

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32. “It’s a little bit devastating being surrounded by people who can do what you can’t anymore. People who create. People whose souls don’t live in their bodies anymore because they’ve leached so much of themselves into their work.”

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33. “True story.”

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34. “We’re like mysteries to one another. Maybe if I can solve him and he can solve me, we can explain each other. Maybe that’s what I need. Someone to explain me.”

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35. “Josh Bennett laughs, and for one minute, everything is right in the world.”

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36. “He’s the kind of good-looking that transforms once self-respecting females into useless puddles of dumbass.”

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37. “I have a black-belt in self-pity. I was an expert in the field. Still am. It’s a skill you never forget.”

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38. “I’ve done goodbyes before, and I can do this one, too. Somehow this one hurts worse than the others; because this one I could prevent if I wanted to, since I’m the one saying it. This goodbye comes with a choice the way none of the others did.”

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39. “I can be your other hand when you need it.”

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40. “If I could be alone, I would. Gratefully. I’d rather be alone than have to pretend I’m okay. But they won’t give me that option.”

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41. “Depends on how badly you want it. It’s worth whatever you’re willing to pay for it.”

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42. “These days I’m missing everything. I’m haunted by music; music I can hear, but never play again. Melodies that taunt me note by note, mocking me with the simple fact that they exist.”

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43. “I can’t find a street sign, but I know I ran fast and I ran far and I didn’t pay attention to anything. I broke every rule that I have and I’ve gotten what I deserve for it. It’s the middle of the night and I am alone and lost and drenched in darkness.”

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44. “But once he saw that swing and that house, then he knew. He knew he wasn’t supposed to die. He was supposed to come back so he could meet her because his heaven was where she was, even if he didn’t know it at the time. And that’s why he wasn’t scared.”

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45. “I didn’t stop talking immediately. I talked right up until the day I remembered everything that happened, over a year later. That was the day I went silent. It wasn’t a ploy or a tactic. It wasn’t psychosomatic. It was a choice. And I made it.”

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46. “I believe in God, Sunshine. I’ve always believed that God exists,” he says. And what he says next isn’t self-pity or angst or melodrama. It’s truth. “I just know that he hates me.” Maybe.”

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47. “No one ever asks. Like they think they’re doing me a favor. That if they don’t bring it up, I won’t have to think about it. Just because I don’t talk about it doesn’t mean i forget. I don’t talk about it because no one ever asks.”

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48. “It amazes me how people are so afraid of what can happen in the dark, but they don’t give a second thought about their safety during the day; as if the sun offers some sort of ultimate protection from all the evil in the world. It doesn’t. All it does is whisper to you, lulling you with its warmth before it shoves you face down into the dirt. Daylight won’t protect you from anything. Bad things happen all the time; they don’t wait until after dinner.”

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49. “I’d also believe that all teenage boys go around calling girls baby, because apparently that’s the express train to romance.”

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50. “Immoral people debating the existence of God is always a crowd pleaser.”

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