Rachel Klein (novelist) Quotes

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You don't know where you are or where your dreams end and the world begins.

Rachel Klein
She goes where she pleases. She appears unhoped for, uncalled for. She moves through doors and walls and windows. Her thoughts move through minds. She enters dreams. She vanishes and is still there. She knows the future and sees through flesh. She is not afraid of anything.

Rachel Klein
The truth is what you can't see but are certain of anyway.

Rachel Klein
Why should I be sad? Everyone has to die. If you have a body, it's too late to cry. It's only funerals I can't stand.

Rachel Klein
You have to trust someone before you can have rituals with them.

Rachel Klein
I love that moment, when you stop struggling to stay awake and your eyelids shut sink down and you slip effortlessly into another realm that's beckoning to you.

Rachel Klein
I laughed when I read about being born with two hearts, one of which is devoted only to destroying humanity.

Rachel Klein
I have always been intrigued by the journals that girls keep. They are like dollhouses. Once you look inside them, the rest of the world seems very far away, even unbelievable. If only we had the power to keep outside ourselves at such moments, we would spare ourselves so much pain and fear. I'm not talking about truth or falsehood but about surviving.

Rachel Klein
I can't imagine what it would be like to have sex with a man. To be so intimate with another person. Not to hide anything. I don't know if I could do that. It would have to be a boy anyway, not a grown man, someone as scared as me.

Rachel Klein