Unravel Quotes
"I gaze out the window at thousands of snowflakes fluttering to the ground, aching for freedom."
"Most people believe the truth is a delicate little bird. They think it’s harmless."
"If they dare to move their hands away from their body, they’ll discover the little bird is gone."
"It’s torn their skin apart, traveled to the core of their souls, right where it hurts the most."
"Thirty days since I’d been involuntarily admitted to Fairfax Mental Health Institute."
"This is what my life has been stripped down to. I’m jealous of a fucking fly."
"My heart beats the same monotonous rhythm every day, but in seconds it speeds up."
"If anyone ever doubts whether madness exists, they only need to look right here."
"There are so many minds around me that are wasting away."
"If the ice drop can hold on, then perhaps I can hang on to my small bit of sanity."
"The Naomi I know would have never just given up so quickly."
"I know what happened is the truth, but it doesn’t make sense."
"But I didn’t look long enough. I skimmed over everything."
"It was the one thing that always drew me to him."
"I see his face and I hear his words when I just want to ignore them."
"I’m giving him everything he wants: control and power."
"That’s only temporary safety. I’ll always be here waiting."
"I’m light as a feather. I let go and leave my body. I’m an apparition."
"Heart beats in a staccato manner before it slows down. Lach-lan. Lach-lan, it beats."
"Before the blackness pulls me under I hear Lachlan whisper, 'Ten years ago you were brave. Ten years ago you took what you wanted. Ten years ago started the beginning of us…'"
"I wish my birthday was on the Fourth of July. Then those fireworks would be for me. It would be Naomi Day. A national holiday."
"I felt like I was the only person that existed. The world was mine and mine only."
"I’m going to do something I had thought about for the last few months."
"I realized that she was right. July 19th was my birthday. No national holiday. No Naomi Day."
"Tell me what you’re fighting and I’ll fight with you."
"I have no one else to celebrate my birthday with!"
"Or I could just have you and Lana. That’s way better than a lot of friends. It’s simple math, really."
"My grandma has always told me that she would rather have four quarters worth of friends than a hundred pennies worth of friends."
"Happy Birthday," Lachlan said. "Make a wish."
"Don’t know? What do you mean you don’t know?"
"Be adventurous, kid! When you get out there, you can do anything you want!"
"Every guy your age is an asshole. Don’t trust them."
"I’m not crazy," I repeat. "I’m not crazy. I’m not crazy…"
"Everyone in this fucking town is eating out of his fucking palm!" Max exploded. "He’s used to calling the shots and no one going up against him."
"No. He’s dead and you’re behind bars. And then who do I have?"
"I’m sorry," he said, his voice soft. "I’m sorry I did that in front of you."
"You know your dad didn’t want to have to do this." "But he did."
"You think that’s your fault?" "I know it is. Just like you think it’s your job to be there for me."
"Everything is ruined," she whispered brokenly.
"I can never understand why you avoided what’s been going on."
"I feel like I just took one step forward, and twenty steps back," I say into my hands.
"You’re here because you broke down. Everything with Lana was too much to take."
"Freedom is a heady thing. When it’s been absent from your life for so long, you become obsessed with it."
"You think of all the things you’ll do when you get it back. Maybe stand outside and breathe in all the fresh air you can."
"The more time that passes, the more you envision what you would do. And then, when you are handed your freedom, you almost don’t know what to do with yourself."
"I would rather feel too much for my patients than nothing at all."
"Freedom has a price. I just wish someone had told me it was my life."
"Her eyes, that are now identical to mine, meet my gaze. The pain throughout me starts to double."
"This pain is mine and only mine. My body starts to shake until I’m practically convulsing."
"Everything happens so slowly, as if time is resisting, trying to stay in place, yet our actions are moving it forward."
"The first bullet punctures her dad’s skin. I watch in horror as his body jerks once before he falls backwards onto his daughter."
"It’s so painful, like I’m being squeezed through a small opening. My skin pulling, resisting."
"I realize that I would rather feel too much for my patients than nothing at all."
"I can just about kiss my career goodbye. Even with that depressing thought looming above my head, I still slam my car door and follow after Lachlan."
"You’re supposed to be the doctor in this situation, but you ignored that. You felt for this girl and cared for her when all you have to do is treat her and let her be on her way."