Alaya Dawn Johnson said this quote

In the dark, I seem to stretch. Without a body to witness, I grow and grow with my pleasure. I feel like a constellation, a concept hung on a scattering of stars.

~ Alaya Dawn Johnson

The past stands in the path of the future, knowing it will be crushed.

~ Alaya Dawn Johnson

The summer kings are gods, and we are finally, in the end, just men.

~ Alaya Dawn Johnson

After everything that's happened, her fear of requesting a prescription or of asking Trevor about his mother baffles her. Shouldn't life-altering events make you less afraid of the little stuff? But it's the little stuff that paralyzes her: talking, eating, dressing, sleeping. Everyone in school is afraid of the apocalypse; she is afraid of living through it.

~ Alaya Dawn Johnson