Top 70 Hannah Harrington Quotes
#1. Some people are just sad, all of the time. Too sad to deal with - everything. Life, I guess. I don't know. There doesn't always have to be a reason.
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#2. I need to experience things. Push beyond my comfort zone. Even if I make a fool out of myself in the process.
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#3. Things get to me all the time - I just don't see the point in making a
big deal out of it.
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#4. Jake was right - I'm strong in a way June never was. Because I know that I want to be here. Even with the pain. Even with the ugliness.
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#5. All of them are the same type; girls with overprocessed hair and too much makeup and way too much access to Daddy's credit cards. Girls who, if you took away the designer labels, hair dye and cover-up, wouldn't be more than average-looking, but with all that stuff look too plastic to be pretty.
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#7. It must be comforting, to have a faith like that. To believe so concretely that there's someone - something - out there watching guard, keeping us safe, testing us only with what we can handle.
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#8. The house is eerily quiet. All this time I thought silence would be a welcome reprieve, but it's less comforting than I imagined. The house feels so much bigger and colder than it ever has.
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#10. Running my mouth has hurt enough people already - the least I can do is to shut up.
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#11. The truth is, the person I've been hating more than anyone is myself. It is so easy. So easy to look in the mirror at all my imperfections and think of all the ways I fall short of someone ...
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#12. It's harder than you think, to find someone who truly believes in your unequivocal, unconditional awesomeness
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#13. Awesome."
"Awesome squared."
"Awesome cubed."
"Awesome to the power of infinity."
"The square root of awesome is-"
"-Asha." We finish at the same time and laugh.
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#15. Are you kidding? This is perfect! This is exactly what we've been hoping for! He has everything we need.
Okay, I'll admit. Turning it down does feel a little like kicking God in the balls.
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#16. People like that? People who don't want to be found? They're usually really good at staying lost.
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#18. Everyone stares as Andy slowly, slowly helps Noah stand. They don't really dance
they just hold each other, swaying from side to side, Noah's face buried in Andy's chest, Andy holding him up, their arms encircled so tightly around each other.
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#19. I'm an expert at finding out secrets, but keeping them- especially a secret of this magnitude - is something else.
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#21. You can be surrounded by people and still be lonely. You can be the most popular person in school, envied by every girl and wanted by every boy, and still feel completely worthless. The world can be laid at your feet and you can still not know what you want from it.
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#23. Parents are supposed to protect you, but they seem to be really, really lousy at it.
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#24. We've been caught in a wildly passionate, completely one-sided affair since freshman year.
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#25. It's not really a practical dream to have, is it?
He stares right at me. It's intense, being under the weight of his full attention. Dreams have to be practical?
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#26. My mistake was not in speaking out. No, my mistake was staying silent for too long.
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#27. It always struck me in years after how bizarre it was, how two people could look at one another with such tenderness and complete love, and how quickly that could dissolve into nothing but bitterness.
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#29. I've never been good at emotional stuff. Except anger. Anger, I'm good at.
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#30. Listen, Harper. I realize how hard this is for you.
A flash of anger heats up in my chest. She doesn't understand. She can't. If she did, she'd leave me alone instead of trying to force me to talk about this.
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#31. Careful, Harper. Someone might think you're actually enjoying yourself."
I can't suppress a smile. "Huh."
"Huh?" He quirks an eyebrow "What was the 'huh' for?
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#33. I love the way he says my name, like it's something he wants to keep safe.
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#34. I'm sorry. For everything I did. For everything I didn't. I wish you were here. I know it's not enough, but I guess this is the closest I am going to get, to saving you.
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#35. What's important is the time we spent working on it together. What's important is that Sam is the kind of guy who will trade notes on a sketchpad and teach me how to make tuna melts and drop everything to drive to a parking lot
when I need him and throw stones at my window to make sure I'm okay.
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#36. I want the faith that there will be some kind of an answer, something more than these endless questions taking up so much space in my head, this feeling that nothing matters and nothing has a point.
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#38. I don't want to be so scared all the time. So alone. I want to believe something can be worth it. Worth the pain. Worth the risk.
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#39. It's like he knows everything. And I don't have to say a word.
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#40. I don't know what I need, or even what I want, from her or from anybody. There's no way to tell her the truth, because the truth is that my heart is broken, and I don't think there's any chance of it being sewn back together. This is permanent. It can't be fixed.
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#41. I'm not saying he was, like, crying tears of man pain over the phone, but he sounded upset.
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#42. It's like what those cheesy action-movie heros always say before they finish taking out the bad guys: I started this, and I'm going to finish it. Except even in the movie of my own life, I've never been the heroine. I've never been Action Girl. I've only ever been Kristen's supporting character.
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#43. Except that night didn't change my life. I changed it. I have to stop acting like I have no control over these things. Like I'm letting them just happen to me. These are my choices. For better or worse.
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#45. Hate is ... it's too easy," he says. His face calm, calmer than it has any right to be, his eyes not wavering from mine, like he's so completely sure of what he's saying. "Love. Love takes courage.
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#46. I want to stop running away from everything.
I want to find something to run toward.
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#47. Whatever you decide, don't let it be because you don't think you have a choice.
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#48. Everything on the radio is crap ... It's fast food for your ears. It doesn't make you think. It isn't even about anything - not anything real. Don't you think music should say something?
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#49. No problem. Just drop it back off before you go," he says, procuring a brass key. "And if he puts on Bowie's early stuff and starts sweet-talking, dammit, you run. You run as fast as you can.
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#50. I hate organized religion. I hate that people use it to justify their crappy, bigoted beliefs.
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#51. I guess that's the thing about riding on cloud nine - it can't last forever. And that particular fall was hard and fast.
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#52. Sometimes people think they want to know things, but then they hear the answer and realize they'd prefer to be in the dark.
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#53. There's no denying the fact he is really, really good-looking, in this rakish, edgy, badass, I-just-rolled-out-of-bed-and-screw-you-I-don't-need-a-mirror kind of way.
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#54. Look, it's not ever going go stop hurting. That's the reality. But after a while, it'll get ... easier. You'll get used to living with it.
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#55. Also, tonight he reeks too much of beer and cloying cologne. This is a disappointment because I always assumed that a perfect creature such as Brendon would smell of spring rain and mountain bresses and other heavenly aromas.
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#56. If you really want things to change, you can make them change no matter where you are.
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#57. My life is now divided into two periods: With June and After June. I can't wrap my mind around the idea of it.
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#58. Sketchy black van? Weird stalking of my house? What are you going to do next, offer me some candy?
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#59. He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that's what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.
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#61. You know, I'm atheist, but I get it. I get why people have faith in a higher power. Some people need it. They need to believe they're not alone.
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#62. Therapy is my mother's solution to everything. I'm sure she thinks there'd be peace in the Middle East if every country were forced to sit down on a stiff leather couch with a box of Kleenex and talk about their feeeeelings.
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#63. -You were in jail? What was it like?
-Boring.Dirty.Smelled like ass.
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#65. I use the time to finish reading Of Mice and Men, which turns out to be just as awful as I thought it would be. I hate stories with dead puppies. So depressing.
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#66. So really, it isn't as if noticing something like his well-toned biceps or his seriously long eyelashes means anything - other than a confirmation of the fact that I'm not blind.
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#67. He winks at me, and the surge of butterflies in my stomach is so strong I think I may throw up right there. I need something to calm my nerves. The most obvious remedy is more alcohol. They don't call it liquid courage for nothing.
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#68. It seems so impossible that someone could look at [Andy and Noah], see how plainly they care for each other, and find anything ugly or shameful or worthy of hatred in it, when all I see is something beautiful.
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#69. Deciding to kiss Jake is like standing on the edge of a pool, staring down and wanting to take the leap, but fearing how cold the water will be.
I hold my breath and jump.
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#70. It's so stupid because all I wanted was space and now that I have it, there's this part of me that's achingly lonely I could die.
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