Top 100 Elizabeth Scott Quotes
#1. I didn't want to see it. I didn't think he'd ever really notice me, and in the end, he didn't.
Elizabeth Scott
#2. But the past couple of days I've missed you so much it's felt like missing you is all I am.
Elizabeth Scott
#4. I'll always remember taking your hand and telling you that everything would be okay.
Elizabeth Scott
#5. And what if
what are you if the people who are supposed to love you can leave you like you're nothing?
Elizabeth Scott
#7. I knew from Brianna that being beautiful wasn't all great. Brianna had changed in middle school. One day we were both seventh graders and the next, she was a supermodel who had a seventh grader for a best friend.
Elizabeth Scott
#8. There's no good way to die, you know? No way I've seen, anyway. It all ends with tubes and bedpans and IVs and I just
smoking gets me out of there. Gets me outside, gets me away from all the
"
"Sick people?" I say, and she shakes her head.
"Away from my life.
Elizabeth Scott
#9. Hope was supposed to be a good thing, but it was starting to feel like every other four-letter word you're not supposed to say.
Elizabeth Scott
#10. I do not fall. I fell so hard so long ago there is nothing left for me to land on. I just
keep falling and falling and falling.
Elizabeth Scott
#11. Why do people think being with someone is the answer to everything?
Elizabeth Scott
#12. Try to live. Try to be happy. [ ... ] Things end, people leave, and life goes on. You need the bad things to feel the good ones.
Elizabeth Scott
#13. I will always carry Mom in my heart. I will always miss her. I will always wish she was here.
Elizabeth Scott
#14. It was like we were all so busy trying to be happy or saying we were happy, but underneath there was nothing but bitterness, the kind that could only be bled out in ink, in unspoken word.
Elizabeth Scott
#16. I didn't want it to be one good memory that led to a lot of bad ones. I wanted it to stay what it was, one amazing moment, something that was strong and sweet enough to stand on its own. Something I could remember without any pain.
- Kate
Elizabeth Scott
#17. It's torture, not being able to talk to him!! She's been so, so worried. How she hopes he's finally doing better now and sleeping soundly.
Elizabeth Scott
#18. The thing is, that world doesn't exist. All growing up means is that your realize no one will come along to fix things. No one will come along to save you.
Elizabeth Scott
#19. He kept talking and I thought about taking my copy of Huckleberry Finn and stuffing it in his mouth so he'd shut up.
Elizabeth Scott
#20. What had been became what
was and a story only works when you know the ending.
When the people in it don't seem like pretend. When you can think about that girl and how she was once upon a time, and see her.
When you don't already know the story is a lie.
Elizabeth Scott
#21. After a couple of days of complete hell , rest is at the top of the agenda. As he fades away to an overdue peacefulness, he misses her .
Elizabeth Scott
#22. Because I-I'm someone who wants to kiss you. Be with you. Eli says as if it is obvious, as if I know what is written on his heart.
Elizabeth Scott
#23. I thought living dead girls couldn't feel pain, thought I was emptied out but I'm not, I'm not.
Elizabeth Scott
#24. I deserved the shaking and the headaches and the fact that every single time I took a breath I felt a squeezing in my chest, my heart beating even though I wished it wasn't.
Elizabeth Scott
#25. Just once, I wanted to lose something without the whole world watching.
Elizabeth Scott
#26. I love books. I love that moment when you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting than yours will ever be.
Elizabeth Scott
#27. Things ... well, things suck sometimes. And sometimes you can fix it. And sometimes you can't. It's just the way it is.
Elizabeth Scott
#28. This is what happiness is, past the rubbish of its overuse as a word, past the cracked gloss of the letters that mean nothing when strung together. They mean something now, and I know what it's like when you and someone else are right together. How simple is is, and how amazing.
Elizabeth Scott
#29. Imagine a guy. He's a little taller than you, with perfect skin, skin that just screams "touch me!" and dark hair and gorgeous blue eyes and he looks so sweet and he is sweet. And then have him blush a little.
Elizabeth Scott
#30. I've been taught that love is beautiful and kind, but it isn't like that at all. It is beautiful, but it's a terrible beauty, a ruthless one, and you fall-you fall, and the thing is-
The thing is you want to. You don't care what's coming you just want who your heart beats for.
Elizabeth Scott
#31. All the things I've thought about love are true. It's beautiful and terrible and it doesn't make things perfect. It ends things, and it brings beginnings.
This is mine.
Elizabeth Scott
#32. She did the "we have mysterious hand gestures that make us giggle" thing.
Elizabeth Scott
#33. How can I remember a world that isn't mine? One that isn't the one I wake up in every day now?
Elizabeth Scott
#34. Little Alice, all hollowed out, so easy to smash into a million little pieces.
Elizabeth Scott
#35. I suppose he's making a real fashion statement, but this is high school. You're not supposed to be real. You're supposed to be enough like everyone else to get through and out into the waiting world.
Elizabeth Scott
#37. I think love is huge, overwhelming. I think it's terrible and beautiful.
Elizabeth Scott
#38. There are a million rules for being a girl. There are a million things you have to do to get through each day. High school has things that can trip you up, ruin you, people say one thing and mean another, and you have to know all the rules, you have to know what you can and can't do.
Elizabeth Scott
#39. I hurt all over even more now, like someone has shattered my insides, like I've been torn apart and put back together but I'm missing something.
Her.
And him. My brother.
Elizabeth Scott
#40. Well as much as I'm sure the people next door who are pretending they aren't looking at me would like to hear what I have to say, I'd rather say it to just you.
Elizabeth Scott
#42. I wish it had never happened because then I wouldn't think about it as I'm falling asleep.
Elizabeth Scott
#43. And now I see what has been there all along, what I've noticed but never truly understood until now.
Eli is as uncertain as I am, as we all are. Life has surprised him like it has me. Has hurt him like it has me.
Elizabeth Scott
#44. I am the living dead girl because I am too weak to die. I hate those crying dough women on TV because they are just like me, weak and broken and clinging to the hands that hold us under.
Elizabeth Scott
#45. I-I don't usually go around throwing rocks at people's windows. Or saying that I've wanted to kiss you since your first day at work, when you wanted to know why we had three codes for fish sandwiches when we only sold one kind.
Elizabeth Scott
#46. I think you're the saddest person I've ever met. It's like you're drowning in it.
Elizabeth Scott
#47. You ready?" Evan asks, and he's looking at me, and I love his hair, I love his smile, I lo
"I Love You," I say, and as I watch his smile bloom I finally get how great those three little words are. I finally get what they really mean.
Elizabeth Scott
#48. Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones?
Elizabeth Scott
#49. Grace is my favourite church word. A state of being. Something you can pray for. Something God can grant. Something you can obtain. Perfection is out of reach. But grace
grace you can reach for.
Elizabeth Scott
#50. And you ... do you know what you are?"
"Stupid?"
"Beautiful," he says, his face turning red.
Elizabeth Scott
#51. She is so relieved to know that he's better and is finally getting the sleep he needs and she misses him.
Elizabeth Scott
#52. You're right ... you can't go back. No matter how much you want to, you never can
Elizabeth Scott
#53. It was nothing. We played tic-tac-toe for a while. You know we do that sometimes."
"Oh, I know," Teagan says.
"Okay, how did you make that sound like we were rolling around ripping off each other's clothes?
Elizabeth Scott
#54. He is nothing to look at, and yet I can't stop looking at him. There is something beautiful in how his face is made, how all the tiny flaws blend together into something more perfect than perfection could ever be.
Elizabeth Scott
#55. You tell yourself that you aren't something or that you can't be something, and you know what? It will become true. You have to decide who you are and what you can do and then go after what you want. Because believe me, no one is going to give it to you.
Elizabeth Scott
#57. Because when I first saw you I thought-no, I knew-you were special. Because I still think that every time I look at you. Because I think you're smart and funny and brave. But most of all," he grins at me- "because I like questions.
Elizabeth Scott
#58. I see it in his eyes, he has eyes you can see everything in, and I say, "Morgan," my voice as quiet as the ghost I am supposed to be.
Elizabeth Scott
#60. No, it can't," I say. "It's - it's the kind of thing you want to say, that you want to believe, but it isn't - I know isn't true. I thought my heart knew things, but what I thought was real turned out to be a lie, and now I don't -
Elizabeth Scott
#61. Maybe you and I have to learn how to live
with what we saw. With what we know.
Elizabeth Scott
#62. And I know what people say about not listening to insults or how you should let stuff roll off you, but it's not that easy.
Elizabeth Scott
#63. It's bullshit. It's so easy to label people, to look at a list of symptoms and say, This is who you are. This is what you are.
Elizabeth Scott
#64. And yet here I am. Broken and bleeding on the inside, heartsick, I am here.
Elizabeth Scott
#65. The story of my life can be told in silver: in chocolate mills, serving spoons, and services for twelve. The story of my life has nothing to do with me. The story of my life is things. Things that aren't mine, that won't ever be mine. It's all I've ever known.
I wish it wasn't.
Elizabeth Scott
#67. Please. If you were mostly dead in the middle of the road I'd obviously stop. And then I'd watch you die.
Kate to Will
Elizabeth Scott
#69. Under the idea that we can all make our own fates, that we have choices, is the reminder that sometimes we don't. That sometimes life is bigger than our plans. Bigger than us.
Elizabeth Scott
#70. I always thought of grief as a blow that took everything out of you. And it is like that. But it stays, past that first hard hit. It stays and blows its breath into you.
It's always there, reminding you of what you've lost. What's gone.
Elizabeth Scott
#71. He looks trapped, helpless and furious, and that's a feeling I know too well. Know how much it hurts. Know how it holds you down, how every day there are a thousand little ways to see there is nothing you can do to change who or what you are.
Elizabeth Scott
#72. Everyone else carries a backpack, but not Josh. He has a cool, beat-up messenger bag, covered with stickers protesting all kinds of things.
Elizabeth Scott
#73. She has no idea who I am, not really. She's just someone who's noticed me because the video and she'll forget what she's said before the day is over.
Me? Not so much, but I go on, my legs shaking and a mix of anger and despair burning inside me.
Elizabeth Scott
#74. Something in me, in my bruised heart, wakes up, and even though I'm terrified, I don't push the feeling away.
Elizabeth Scott
#75. The thing is you can get used to anything you think you cant you want to die but you dont you cant you just are
Elizabeth Scott
#76. School is just like having a job. You have to show up, you have to do your work, and you have to be around tons of idiots or mean people. Now that I think about it, it's worse than having a job. At least there you get paid.
Elizabeth Scott
#77. I see what grief does, how it strips you bare, shows you all the things you don't want to know. That loss doesn't end, that there isn't a moment where you are done, when you can neatly put it away and move on.
Elizabeth Scott
#79. Everyone gets scared, like it's some big profound statement?
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#80. She's gone, but I can be happy. I can be in love. I can be both those things and scared too, and I am. I am, and this is what life is.
Elizabeth Scott
#82. Cute" is one of those words people use when they know you're smart enough to realize "you've got so much personality" means "you're ugly.
Elizabeth Scott
#83. Too late, too late, juice pouring does not a kind soul make, and I killed you.
Elizabeth Scott
#84. It will be over soon, finally, but the thing about hearts is that they want to keep beating. They want to keep beating.
Elizabeth Scott
#85. My name is Danielle. I'm eighteen. I've been stealing things for as long as I can remember.
Elizabeth Scott
#86. Three life lessons: 1.No one will see you. 2.No one will say anything. 3.No one will save you.
Elizabeth Scott
#87. I didn't feel anything watching him go. I didn't even wish I did.
Elizabeth Scott
#88. The sun flitered in through the small, dirty windows, catches his eyes. They are brown, ordinary, but the way he looks at me - no one has ever looked at me like he does. He looks at me like he sees something. Someone.
Me.
"All right," he says, and puts his hands behind his head.
"Go ahead.
Elizabeth Scott
#90. I want to lie down on the bench then, or better yet, on the grass, rest on something living and see if I can hear the dead underneath.
Elizabeth Scott
#91. I heard how people sounded when their dreams were shattered, when their lives were turned into a waking nightmare.
Elizabeth Scott
#92. Talking about someone who makes you happy actually makes you happy.
Elizabeth Scott
#93. You,I think. I am terrified of you. Of how your kindness makes me like you in spite of myself. Of how you make me dream things I haven't dreamed in forever.
You,I think. But I don't say it.
Elizabeth Scott
#94. I'd dressed up and hoped and I was so tired of doing that, so tired of dreaming and being unable to stop it despite the fact that I'd seen, maybe better than anyone here, what dreams could do to you.
Elizabeth Scott
#95. All growing up means is that you realize no one will come along and fix things.
Elizabeth Scott
#96. She became a story, one I have mostly forgotten. One I can't end because she died a long time ago.
Elizabeth Scott
#97. The thing about hearts is that they always want to keep beating
Elizabeth Scott
#98. Check it out. I got a new name tag today." He unclipped it and held it out toward me.
I looked at it. "A. GUY."
He grinned. "Someone actually asked me what the A stood for," he said, his hand brushing mine as he took the tag back, sliding it into his pocket. "I said Larry.
Elizabeth Scott
#99. I have been smashed and put back together so many times nothing works right. Nothing is where it should be, heavy thumping in my shoulder where my heart now beats.
Elizabeth Scott
#100. Love is ... you get confused and you do stuff you don't mean to do-and you just-you hate yourself and sometimes you don't even want to love the person you do because it would be so much easier if you didn't.But you just-you just do.
Elizabeth Scott
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