Top 100 Courtney Summers Quotes
#1. I reach for the pettiest thing I can think of because no one has a hard time believing how petty a girl can be.
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#2. I take a swig from Milo's flask and hand it back to him. He screws the top back on. He inherited the flash from his grandfather and stole the liquor from his mother. The circle of life.
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#3. It's when my body decides to remind me it can do more than I'll ever want it to, it is so painful.
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#4. The problem with alienating, self-destructive behavior is people get it into their heads it's a cry for help. It wasn't.
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#6. I want to burn a moment of helplessness into him so he can know a fraction of what I felt, what I feel, what's followed me every moment since, so I You cover cover his her mouth mouth.
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#8. I want to feel this. I need it to hurt for me to feel it, I think.
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#9. I want to shove the question down his throat until he chokes on it.
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#10. Helen Turner hates me and the way Helen Turner hates me feels like the worst kind of betrayal. A woman who doesn't think about daughters she doesn't have.
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#11. Write it down today, put it away, make sense of it tomorrow.
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#12. This must be what Dorothy felt like, I think. Maybe. If Dorothy was six scared teenagers and Oz was hell.
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#13. I try to imagine what it must be like to have art inside of you and then to not have it anymore. To lose it, to not be able to find it, to search for it... Maybe that is a good reason to kill yourself.
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#14. I half-expect to check out, but I'm really there for it. It's not like at the dance, angry and forced. It's terrible in its gentleness and he's just wasting it on me.
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#15. I've fought off groups before and making it out in one piece was pure dumb luck. That's it. These days it feels like alive is an accidental state of being.
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#16. It's just this emptiness between us, the stupid idea I could kiss it away,
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#18. How does it feel to know that even at my worst, you're still not good enough?
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#19. I walk over to the window and peer out at the party. I like it better from this distance, away from everyone. Safe.
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#20. I hear the unmistakable sound of glass breaking and I start apologizing to no one, trying to pick it up again, but I can't.
I can't get my hands to work because they're too cold.
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#21. Carving out our own place, making something out of nothing. It feels as right as it doesn't and I think maybe I was wrong. We can't have exactly everything we lost. But maybe we can come close.
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#22. In the girls' bathroom, I run the water hot and hold my hands under it until I feel
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#24. He slings his arm around my shoulder. I feel the question after he does it. -Is this okay?- I don't think it is. I don't know how to fold myself into him in any way that feels right.
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#25. Everyone who knows her loves her. Except people hurt the people they love all the time.
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#27. A deadline should not prevent you from writing, but writing will help prevent you from missing your deadline. Then write a word. Then remind yourself of that again. And then write another and hey, look at you! You're spitting in that deadline's eye.
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#28. It's okay, we can go back from this. It comes out of his mouth so kind - he means it - and it just makes me feel worse. That he can kiss me like this and change everything, but still promise me nothing has to change because I can't promise him anything.
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#29. It can't be wrong to want to see someone because you like the person you are when you're around them. That's probably one of the best reasons you could have.
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#30. Because you made it here on a lot less" he says and he has no idea how on the mark he is.
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#31. I elbow my way through the mass of people to get to my locker because there's something immensely satisfying about the toughest part of my arm connecting with the softest part of everyone else.
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#32. You know," she says. "You're still alive. I don't know how many different ways I can try to tell you before it finally sinks in.
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#33. Dad was thirsty, not given to great displays of affection, like his father and his father's father before him. A long line of self-indulgent men who couldn't give love but lived to take it, which isn't the same as receiving it. They were all in so much pain and that's always the perfect excuse.
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#34. Becky, you're only standing there because I decided I didn't want to.
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#35. Yeah, sure," I say, and then, for good measure: "Whatever.
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#36. I'm afraid everything I was is gone and all that's left is everything I'm not.
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#37. Cardboard cutouts of cheerleaders operated by arthritic monkeys would move more fluidly.
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#39. So you never said if you're having a boy or girl."
"We won't know until it's born."
I hope it's not a girl. The thought shocks me, comes so quick it has to be honest. So I think it again, careful and slow to be sure. I hope it's not a girl. I feel it even more the second time.
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#40. The blinds are drawn and the light in here is so weak, but I would know her silhouette anywhere. I memorized it. She's here and every moment without her was a lie.
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#41. Real life is always quieter and anticlimactic somehow. But devastating all the same.
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#42. My dad used to say makeup was a shallow girl's sport, but it's not. It's armor.
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#43. He shoves his hands in his pockets, which is okay by me because his hands are forever distracting, all the things they could do.
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#44. The people feel and look the same, like they've settled here even though they know there's something more-something better-just beyond where they are.
Small-town life.
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#45. It's something my body does without checking with my head first, like the obligation to be nice to him is greater than myself.
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#46. It's a slow process; he always seems reluctant to let her go and I think she likes to savor that as much as possible.
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#48. I'm struck by how amazing it is and how sad that makes me, because I've never seen that. He's not like that around me. The way his mouth quirks and lights up his eyes. He should smile more often. It's so innocent.
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#49. This is awful. This is so hopeless. We're all lost in different ways, so how do we even help each other find our way out. We won't. We can't. We'll just stay lost forever.
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#50. I don't have time for the 'things change speech, Parker."
"So give me the CliffNotes version.
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#51. You know all the ways you can kill a girl?
God, there are so many.
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#52. The silence stretches between us. Words aren't so easy to come by, after his admission. It takes him a while to dig some up.
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#53. You know how you feel when you meet someone and they just give you the impression they're living on this entirely different planet from everyone else? That's sort of how I felt when I met you.
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#55. I hate that I'm so numb and empty and disconnected from most of these people but even I can see worth in stupid little moments like these. These people aren't even my family, but I can see their value and if I can see it in something this small, when I feel this bad, then
Then why didn't he?
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#58. She was young and alive, untouchable. Why did she want to go?
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#59. You only get to walk variations of the same lines everyone has already drawn for you.
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#60. There's a girl out there everyone thinks is dead and maybe she is because you know all the ways there are to kill a girl? I do.
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#61. She was supposed to be the strong one," she says.
"Sloane."
"But I've gotten so much farther than her.
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#63. How do you say that physically, you're okay, when everything is not.
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#64. I wonder if all hearts are made with the same pockets for fear and pain and sadness. They must not be, or if they are, maybe we all don't know how to use them. Because otherwise so many of our stories would have ended differently.
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#65. it's blindingly awful and awfully satisfying all at the same time.
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#67. If I know anything it's that a girl never makes a case for herself by crying. It's just one more side of herself she's showed can't be trusted.
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#69. I spot a fly floating on the surface of the water, its little legs pumping madly as it fights to keep itself afloat. I know that feeling.
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#70. The repeat is always the killer. Everything inside you goes into saying the word once, but sorry is the kind of word the person you say it to always wants to hear twice.
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#71. How are you feeling?"
She rubs the back of her neck. "Stupid question."
"Well, ask me and I'll tell you I'm fucking great.
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#73. Now is not about gathering courage, it's about staying one step ahead of my fear.
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#74. I stare at the crowbar between us. You've never truly felt the weight of something like that until you've destroyed someone with it.
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#75. She hates her heart, that misguided organ in her chest. Why didn't it warn her?
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#76. She can't deny that for months she imagined his son's hands on her body, in that truck, in a bed, anywhere. She pictured it over and over except in her head, she wanted it and her eyes were open.
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#77. Milo and I have this drinking game about Beth: every time she annoys me, we drink.
She annoys me alot.
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#78. I didn't want to be popular because it was easier; I wanted to be popular because in high school that's the best thing you can be: perfect. Everything else is shit.
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#79. I woke up and the last piece of my heart disappeared. I opened my eyes and I felt it go.
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#82. I don't like you with Becky. She's not a very nice girl.'
'I don't like you with Jake. He's not me.
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#83. It's so hard not to enjoy this because how can you put something so golden, a girl who can barely open her eyes or her mouth - how can you put something like that in front of them and expect them to be better people?
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#85. There's always this one girl. She's desperate and she's weird and she's jealous, and you're stuck with her, no matter how hard you try to get her off your back. Just throw some really fucked-up self-esteem issues into the mix and you have Kara.
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#86. Do you have a credit card or something?" I ask because who wouldn't have a credit card handy during the zombie fucking apocalypse.
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#87. Penny Young is the most perfect girl you know and those kinds of girls, they're put on this earth to break you. Peel back her skin and you can see her poison. Peel back mine, you can still see traces of where her poison's been.
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#88. And that I miss her, that I need her, and this kind of missing, this kind of need, the kind of emptiness it leaves behind is worse than waking up one day and finding the whole world has collapsed in on itself, that I was over longer before it was.
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#89. I finally squint up at the face above and am relieved to find, not a wolf, but a woman, just like me. Until I see the uniform.
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#90. I wonder if, even after all of this, he understands how fragile good things are in my hands and how many times they've been taken away from me.
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#91. It's amazing how bad you can make the truth sound. As long as you keep it partially recognizable when you spit it out, a crowd will eat it up without even thinking abot how hard you chewed on it first.
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#92. I don't know why it's the girls who always seem to have to take on that kind of burden.
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#93. Sometimes you catch something specific like the screams and cries of people trying to hold on to each other before they're swallowed into other, bigger noises.
This is what it sound like when the world ends.
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#94. Jake and Chris talk through art and discover they have so much in common it's amazing. Like, They Could Be Boyfriends If They Didn't Like Vaginas So Much Amazing.
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#95. I don't know how I'm going to do this, move through the hours like someone who wants to still be breathing when I had so firmly made up my mind to stop.
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#96. The sooner you make a mistake and learn to live with it, the better. You're not responsible for everything. You can't control the way things end up.
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#97. Waiting around to be saved is like waiting to die and I have done more of both than anyone else in the room.
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#98. You need to bury it," Cary tells me. "All of that's over. You have to be here now.
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#99. Time passes too quickly when you're getting ready to do something you don't want to do.
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#100. Because teenage girls don't pray to God, they pray to each other. They clasp their hands over a keyboard and then they let it all out, a (stupid) girl's heart tucked into another girl's heart.
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