"The Female of the Species" Quotes
A dark and thought-provoking novel that explores the consequences of violence and revenge through the eyes of three interconnected teenagers.
young adult | 341 pages | Published in 2016
Quotes
Hell is the absence of the people you long for.
There's blood under my fingernails. I wonder how many of my people I've killed this week.
The act of leaving is not enough to make a person disappear, I have found.
It's the things we do that make us who we are.
There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there's certainly no equality.
I think the hardest part of losing someone isn’t saying goodbye, but rather learning to live without them.
The ones who are still alive are the ones who are still fighting.
Sometimes the inside of my head feels like an overfilled balloon about to burst.
Sometimes you have to question what is right, what is wrong, and what falls somewhere in between.
We all have darkness inside us, Alex. That's what it means to be human.
