Paper Souls Quotes

“Emily woke to shadows and their voices. They looked different today, because the entire world hurt. The numbness had worn off sometime between sleep and awake, and she was seeing red. The shadows on the walls were not shadows at all, but red blobs consisting of teeth and claws. Her house reeked of pain.

The whole world was fucking bleeding.”
― Allie Burke, Paper Souls

“What to do with life? Get out of bed, Derek. That’s what you do. You get out of bed, and you get yourself a cup of fucking coffee. That’s all you can do.”
― Allie Burke, Paper Souls

“He was sort of beautiful. In his own dark, depressing way, but still. She was going to miss that stupid fucking beautiful face.”
― Allie Burke, Paper Souls

“Life wasn’t perfect, but it wasn’t supposed to be. Eternal beauty could not exist if it were not for the face of a fatal flaw.”
― Allie Burke, Paper Souls

“Let her go,” Brendan said, and Will did.

And that was the biggest mistake of his life. Letting her go.”
― Allie Burke, Paper Souls

“The universe requires balance. Nothing, nothing, can exist without it. There is no life, no light, without death, without darkness. There is no memory… without emptiness.”
― Allie Burke, Paper Souls

“The sound of her phone shocked her out of the dark world that was currently playing in front of her eyes from the book in her lap. She wondered sometimes, why she bothered with books. If she wanted to hallucinate, all she had to do was get up in the morning.”
― Allie Burke, Paper Souls

“It takes two to tango, and if you dance too long, implosion is inevitable.”
― Allie Burke, Paper Souls

“The most important things, the experiences that leave marks on our souls for everyone to see, those marks that reflect our most intense emotions in a glass pane, we will never forget.”
― Allie Burke, Paper Souls

“What is perfect, anyway? The absence of perfection and the existence of human nature in place of something we want to do or we don’t want to do, is an excuse, not an exoneration.”
― Allie Burke, Paper Souls

“Now, Emily didn't make a sound. There was something more defining about the soundless reality that condemned the paradigm of passion.”
― Allie Burke, Paper Souls

“You are a stupid fucking woman, Emily Colt. Just like all your kind.

I know you hate Americans, but—

I never said I hated Americans, Sergei spat. I said your kind. Women. It doesn’t matter to me what country you’re from. You women are fucking stupid, and I’m tired of saving you. All of you.”
― Allie Burke, Paper Souls

“The universe requires balance. Nothing, nothing, can exist without it. There is no life, no light, without death, without darkness. There is no memory without emptiness.”
― Allie Burke, Paper Souls

“She was so good at pretending to be normal it disgusted her.”
― Allie Burke, Paper Souls

“Please understand that these people—schizophrenics— they live a lie every day. Her past and everyone in it, they are like . . . like Paper Souls. Being schizophrenic is a lot like being a writer. People don’t exist until she makes them up in her head, and that’s where they stay. It’s one revolving hallucination.”
― Allie Burke, Paper Souls

“What is perfect, really? The absence of perfection and the existence of human nature in place of something we want to do or we don’t want to do, is an excuse, not an exoneration.”
― Allie Burke, Paper Souls

“But that was just Brendan and Emily. Two people who simultaneously loved one another too much and not enough. Insanity is defined by repeating the same act while expecting a different result. Schizophrenia made insanity easy on Emily, though. Love is like a shadow. You see it right in front of your eyes, but it isn’t really there. Is it?”
― Allie Burke, Paper Souls