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“She shrugged and flipped her glossy hair behind her shoulders. "What else do you have to do with your time besides think about stuff like this? It's not like you're real heavy into extracurriculars. Besides, you're all, like, goth and into the dead, right?"
Alona Dare, queen of the insult-compliment. "Wow. Thanks. Anyone ever tell you you're good with people?"
She frowned. "No."
"Good. I'm not goth."
"Your hair is black, you have piercings, you wear black all the time and act all freaky-"
"My hair is naturally this color. I have three earings in one ear, that's it. This shirt" -I tugged at the fabric across my chest- "is navy blue, and if I act weird all the time, it's because of ghosts like you.”
― Stacey Kade, The Ghost and the Goth

“Nice. I like a little desperation in
a guy. It builds character.”
― Stacey Kade, Queen of the Dead

“What are you doing, meditating?"
"No, I'm trying to calm down so I don't kick your ass," she said through clenched teeth.”
― Stacey Kade, The Ghost and the Goth

“You better smile, or we're toast," I said. "Everything about you screams social malcontent with a grudge and a trunk full of weapons.”
― Stacey Kade, The Ghost and the Goth

“My shirt is gray,â€� I pointed out. “You’ve expanded my fashion horizons dramatically. I wear three colours now.”
― Stacey Kade, Body & Soul

“It’s called a near-death experience. You should try it sometime,â€� I said sweetly. “Maybe without the ‘nearâ€�.”
― Stacey Kade, Body & Soul

“Teachers, parents, guidance counselors... all of them are always pushing this crap about how it's okay to be different, just be yourself. Don't give in to peer pressure, blah, blah, blah. The truth is, it's really only okay to be yourself if that self is within an accepted range of "normal." You like soccer instead of basketball, Johnny? Well, okay, I guess, so long as you still like sports. What's that, Susie, you want to wear the blue sweater instead of the red? You know we're all about expressing individuality here... so long as it's still a sweater.”
― Stacey Kade, The Ghost and the Goth

“This girl who equally drove me crazy and made me care about her more than I should. She was the only one who understood. The only one who could help make what I was more bearable, even if she occasionally tortured me in the process.”
― Stacey Kade, Queen of the Dead

“I know who you are, no matter what you look like,â€� he said quietly, surprising me.”
― Stacey Kade, Body & Soul

“What happened to you?" she asked.
"Ben was feeling artistic. Wanted to rearrange my face.”
― Stacey Kade, Body & Soul

“What is that phrase the kids use today? Oh, yeah. You’re his bitch, his spirit-world bitch”
― Stacey Kade, The Ghost and the Goth

“I’d ended up sprawled across his chest, which was actually broader than it looked. Navy blue is a slimming colour, I guess.”
― Stacey Kade, The Ghost and the Goth

“God, buses are so ugly when you see them that close.”
― Stacey Kade, The Ghost and the Goth

“Over the years, I’d seen all kinds of smiles from her. The kind designed to make all the blood drain from your head and gather behind your zipper...”
― Stacey Kade, The Ghost and the Goth

“Three days isn’t that long to go without human contact, unless everyone you touch turns your insides into a cold, shaky mess. Then it feels like forever...and touching Will Killian actually felt pretty good.”
― Stacey Kade, The Ghost and the Goth

“From what I'd witnessed, Alona Dare was single minded, determined, and ruthless. If high school was a zoo, she was the lioness running the hunt on the hapless tourists who'd wandered into the wrong enclosure.”
― Stacey Kade, The Ghost and the Goth

“Great. Not only do I have an angry spirit guide, but an angry spirit guide with a vindictive streak and an unnatural knowledge of show tunes. Better and better already.”
― Stacey Kade, The Ghost and the Goth

“I thought for sure you were going straight to hell.”
― Stacey Kade, The Ghost and the Goth

“The truth is, it's really only okay to be yourself if that self is within an accepted range of 'normal'.”
― Stacey Kade, The Ghost and the Goth

“My mouth fell open, and I swear, I got chills. He’d actually done it. He’d told his mom no. Somewhere along the line, Will Killian had grown a mother-proof spine.”
― Stacey Kade, Body & Soul

“I suspected those people were seeking to make sense of the world by turning her into a cautionary tale, the lesson being, look both ways. And don't be such a bitch.”
― Stacey Kade, The Ghost and the Goth

“Killian wasn't dead. He just dressed like it.”
― Stacey Kade, The Ghost and the Goth

“My mother's voice intruded on a dream in which a large animated eggplant named Bob teetered on the edge of a cliff with thoughts of suicide and Parmesan.”
― Stacey Kade, The Ghost and the Goth

“Just thinking.â€�
“Why start now?”
― Stacey Kade, Body & Soul

“I think, uh, I might be in love with you," I said, my voice sounding gruff and awkward even to my own ears.”
― Stacey Kade, Body & Soul

“Have some pride, will ya? Begging someone to like you is so pathetic.”
― Stacey Kade, The Ghost and the Goth

“Trust me, you see the dead walking around, you learn not to scream, laugh, or piss yourself pretty quickly.”
― Stacey Kade, The Ghost and the Goth

“Would Alona be gone before I even got a chance to say good-bye? A real good-bye? One last kiss and the chance to tell her that she’d made my life better even as she’d made me crazy? That we were better together than I would ever be by myself, but that because of her, I would be okay? Not great, but okay, and I owed that all to her?
No. I needed to see her one last time.”
― Stacey Kade, Body & Soul

“What part of Vivis servimus non mortuis do you not understand?â€� she asked. “All of it?”
― Stacey Kade, Queen of the Dead

“The trouble with rules, though, is that you'll always be tempted to break one- for the right reasons, due to unavoidable circumstances, because it feels as if there's no other choice. And once you break one, the rest seem like so much broken glass. The damage is already done.”
― Stacey Kade, The Rules