Top 80 Katja Millay Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I need to know that there’s a way for people like us to end up okay. I need to know that there even is such a thing as okay, maybe even good, and it’s out there and we just haven’t found it yet. There’s got to be a happier ending than this, here. There’s got to be a better story. Because we deserve one. You deserve one.”

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52. “My mother’s voice. It’s the first thing I remember after I opened my eyes. My beautiful girl. You came back to us. But she was wrong.”

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53. “Some things you just have to learn to live with.”

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54. “Like the glass I’ve been looking through is coated in the dust of my own perception and I haven’t seen what’s real.”

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55. “How is it that with everything that’s happened in my life, this girl is going to be the thing that undoes me?”

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56. “Life is short and TBR lists are long.”

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57. “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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58. “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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59. “Then one day I guess my mind decided I was ready, because that was the day I remembered everything and then I stopped answering the questions altogether. I think maybe my brain made a mistake about how strong I was, but it didn’t let me send the memories back.”

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60. “I should tell. I know I should. But he’s mine. I don’t want him getting the chance to walk away. I want him to pay and I want to be the one who decides how.”

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

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62. “I shrug. I’m an excellent shrugger. It’s rivaled only by my ability to nod.”

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63. “People who go around advertising their birthday are douchebags.”

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64. “Everyone wants to fix me... You’re supposed to be the person who doesn’t want to fix me.”

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65. “And then he kisses me. Tentatively at first, waiting for something, but there isn’t any need. I would kiss him forever. I will kiss him forever. I know it like I know my own name.”

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66. “The silent thing is definitely a barrier in terms of making friends.”

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67. “I think I’ll stay in pieces. I can shift them, rearrange, depending on the day, depending on what I need to be. I can change on a whim and be so many different girls and none of them has to be me.”

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68. “I slide down out of the chair and get as low as I can to the ground so I can twist my head around and see what he’s talking about. And I do and it’s unmistakable. There, on the underside of the seat, is an engraving of the sun. I know at that moment what he’s given me and it’s not 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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69. “I’ve scared, offended or made everyone uncomfortable enough to stay away. Mission accomplished.”

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70. “I don’t have any special powers. I’m certain of that, because I’ve spent a lot of time lamenting my lack of them. I do have an uncanny capacity for bitterness and misdirected rage but I don’t think that counts.”

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71. “I was ripped out of the water and thrown and smashed into a thousand pieces that I can’t put back together. I don’t know where they go. And there are so many missing that the ones that are left don’t fit together anymore.”

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72. “My phone is on my bed, whispering in my ear like a bottle of scotch to a recovering alcoholic, while the rain continues cackling at me through my window.”

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73. “But I’m here and so is she and I can’t let go. Maybe I don’t need to save her forever. Maybe I can just save her right now, in this moment, and if I can do that, maybe it will save me and maybe that can be enough.”

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74. “It’s the Josh Bennett equivalent of tattooing her name across my chest.”

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75. “I don’t dress this way because I like it so much or because I want people to stare at me in general. But people are going to stare at me for the wrong reasons anyway, and if they are going to stare at me for the wrong reasons, then at least I should get to pick them.”

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76. “People like Josh Bennett and I don’t get perfect. Most of the time, we don’t even get remotely tolerable. And that’s why it scares me. Because, even if there was such a thing to begin with, perfect never lasts.”

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77. “What is she to him?” I try not to sound jealous or like I’m fishing for information, but I am on both counts. “She,” he says, looking at my chest, because he is still Drew, before pulling his gaze up to my eyes, “is a poor man’s Sunshine.” I.”

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78. “Life is short and TBR lists are long. I know that time is precious, and I thank you for spending yours with this book. –.”

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79. “Just so you know,” he mimics me, “I would chop that table up and use it for firewood before I would ever choose anything over you.”

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80. “He’s the be all and end all of my friends right now.”

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81. “I’m thankful for Margot. Not that I tell her this. Not that I tell her anything. I don’t.”

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82. “There’s something about knowing that I broke my father’s heart that makes me hate myself a little more than I already do.”

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83. “Maybe if I could have lived with that slight imperfection, I wouldn’t be living with such a huge one now.”

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