Gateway Quotes

“I'd had enough of being awake.”
― Christina Garner, Gateway

“He gave the tiniest of smiles and it made me want to think of ways to see it more often.”
― Christina Garner, Gateway

“people always let you down. It was just part of the human condition. Look at Kat and Callie. One had tried to kill me; the other had almost gotten me killed. Neither intentionally, but did it matter? My mother never meant to hurt me and she'd all but ruined my life. It didn't matter what people meant, it mattered what they did.”
― Christina Garner, Gateway

“If that's the boundary between sanity and Crazytown, maybe they should mark it better.”
― Christina Garner, Gateway

“What was that bit about fish sticks?” he asked, climbing back into the SUV.
“Oh, pretty clever of her actually, though I thought it ridiculous at the time. Sometimes Mom gets paranoid, thinks people might be out to get her, out to get me.” I laughed nervously at how close that hit to home. “Anyway, one night she was really freaked out and came up with a code. If I was ever
kidnapped or something, she would say something about me liking fish sticks. If I said I wanted fish sticks, that meant I was in danger and needed help, no matter what else I’d said to her that I was fine.” “So by you saying you hate fish sticks…”“She knows I’m fine and she doesn’t need to further involve the police. Who says bipolar disorder can’t be useful?”
― Christina Garner, Gateway

“I didn't want to wear the bra I'd discarded last night;it was filthy and reeked of perspiration. Not that I was pleased my breasts could be kept under control by such a thin sheath of fabric, but it did have its advantages.”
― Christina Garner, Gateway

“We have much to beg forgiveness for,” Annys said. For once her expression was soft, her hawk-like eyes downcast.“We all do,” I said, “if not for this, than something else.”“That's very… Zen of you,” Master Dogan said. I laughed. “Don't get used to it. I'm pretty sure it's a near-death thing and will pass, but let's enjoy it while we can.”
― Christina Garner, Gateway

“We're adding nuthouse to the resume now?”
― Christina Garner, Gateway

“Apparently, I had graduated from psychologist and was now in need of a full-blown psychiatrist.”
― Christina Garner, Gateway

“Is he crazy? Of course he is, he's in a mental institution. I'm probably crazy too. The people in the hallway are definitely crazy, which is why only a crazy person would go out there.”
― Christina Garner, Gateway

“If I could have, I would have erased the entire night from my memory. I felt changed, soiled by the brutality of all I witnessed. Something had finally replaced teenage girls on my list of things most heinous, and I didn't even know what to call it.”
― Christina Garner, Gateway

“Taren and I followed her gaze to the body lying on the floor. The most romantic kiss of my life had just taken place next to a corpse.”
― Christina Garner, Gateway

“He was as much a victim of hope as I had been.”
― Christina Garner, Gateway

“I just…wanted to be done,” I said. “I look at this world, and I think about me in it, and it just feels…wrong. I see other people and they seem to get it—whatever it is that makes things make sense in this life—and I just don't.”
― Christina Garner, Gateway

“It didn't matter what people meant to do, it mattered what they did.”
― Christina Garner, Gateway