Avoiding life, avoiding making any concrete plans for your life--that's just one way you're pretending you can keep bad things from happening to you again.

— Susan Vaught

Five seconds, and my body's humming. I go half-man, half-machine, and my thoughts go straight to touching her more, to how far I want to go, how far she might want to go, and damn, I start to hurt. No amount of music or hard work will fix this. My body's a beast. A beast that's been held back too long.

— Susan Vaught

I'm lost in space and I want to find a way home. Nobody else can get me back to the planet, so I have to do it myself.

— Susan Vaught

Is it how it feels to do the right things? Because it sucks!

— Susan Vaught

Some things can be fixed. Some things are just too broken.

— Susan Vaught

Sometimes stories get on my nerves--especially the ones where unfair things keep happening to the hero over and over, for no reason at all, and he valiantly overcomes it all. Life isn't like that. Not every hero can stay valiant. Sometimes, they can't even stay a hero, so what does that make them? A failure? A pussy? A total failure jerk wad with no hope on the horizon save finding a cemetery and digging rectangles in the ground for the town drunk?

— Susan Vaught